Originally published at: Video: Burning RV mysteriously drives itself across the street before the fire spread to nearby home | Boing Boing
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Video: Burning RV mysteriously drives itself across the street before the fire spread to nearby home
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Going out with a bang, figuratively speaking. Nice.
(Fires can do weird things to electrics.)
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Lots to unpack there!
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Wow, that RV really hates trees!
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The tree was giving the RV attitude and had it coming.
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It uses an external combustion engine.
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Hotwired?
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The parking brake probably melted? 
“If your van’s a smokin’, maybe you shouldn’t have been tokin’.”
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Why did the burning RV cross the road?
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Story prompt - AI self driving car catches fire in the middle of the night, runs through scenarios on how to proceed with what little time it has left.
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Weirdness starts at 2:45 or so.
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Looks like another case for…
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My name is Inigo Motorhome, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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To get away from the chicken?.
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Almost certainly insulation in a wiring harness melting with various wires shorting out. Since this has a standard transmission and was probably left in first gear, when the ignition wires shorted, the starter motor just drove the RV across the street.
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Probably.
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Happens all the time (well, every 10 years) , maybe they should recall them.
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those poor trees!
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makes ya wonder if the guy’s wife (who died in the RV) was the one at the wheel - hmmmm
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If my wife dies and I’m in our RV with anyone but the cats I guarantee she’ll drive me and the RV right of a cliff.
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