The first time I went on this stretch of highway in a long long time due to Covid, I forgot how quickly that exit curved and how slow you needed to go. Being at night didn’t help, and I opted to just drive on the shoulder and stop, and then re-merge onto traffic once getting my bearings, vs standing on the brakes and try making that exit. Oops. 
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/shudder That sounds awful! Good thing the grinding gears were the trashmen waking you up!
It’s because you just joined. You should be able to soon.
Welcome to boing boing!
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Just don’t keep replacing the landscaping. That wall won’t last forever. That building won’t last forever. And then you have your deep sand. Nature finds a way.
Or maybe they can use some particularly momentum-absorbing bush? Is there such a thing?
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Some sort of genetically engineered rubber plant. That goes “boing” when it is hit by a car.
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Like “Every salesman is a lying sack of shit,” it isn’t remotely true, but it is a useful working assumption nonetheless.
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Get two. When they are hit by a car, they will go…
Seriously though… Today I have been pulling up ivy that has crawled over the fence from next door. That stuff sticks to walls and rocks like anything. It would have to be cut back so it did not develop a massive trunk, but as a ground cover it should grab any car ploughing through it.
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Presumably from the same camera, this Lamborghini was even hotter:
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Those plants are ivy, and they grow back overnight after each crash.
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Christ, what an asshole! He doesn’t get the fire out so his response to throw the fire extinguisher up in the air in the middle of the road and then just leave it lying out there?
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Indeed, though exactly what I’d expect from someone who owns a car like that. 
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Instant karma though, because he left the ignition system on (note headlights). That’s why he couldn’t get the fire out. Idiots who buy these cars have no idea how to operate or maintain them properly.
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I’ve seen several videos of people revving their Lambos and then they catch fire. I mean, for a $$$$$$ car, you would think it wouldn’t do that.
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Y’all are gonna make me do this, aren’t you? I don’t even live in Seattle!
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There’s a reason why most of the dangerous jobs in America involve driving… I’m constantly amazed at how relaxed people are about driving, considering how dangerous it is both to oneself and everyone else.
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Humans are notoriously bad at evaluating risk. We fear terrorism which has virtually zero chance of harming you or anyone you know, but drive everywhere without a care in the world.
Evolutionary Psychologists would say we are wired this way (to overvalue rare risks because over-reacting to every shadow not being a tiger is better for survival than under-reacting. Take that with a grain of salt though because evolutionary psychology is a pretty sketchy field, rife with untestable claims and “just so” explanations for behaviour that are curiously devoid of cultural context. It might be more likely that the news talks non-stop about terrorism and nobody talks about how driving is the most dangerous thing 99.9% of people will ever do.
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I’ve always thought that because American spend so much time behind the wheel (thanks to spread-out cities and lack of public transportation), the car becomes a living space, and driving takes up a lot of people’s time during which it’s impossible to maintain the kind of focus required for the task. If drivers were as concerned about it as they should be, all that time driving would give them PTSD. Normalizing it, reducing the perception of risk, becomes a psychological survival strategy, even as they increase the risk by turning a dangerous means of conveyance into another room of their home and do other things.
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Do you live in Seattle or especially in West Seattle? The West Seattle lower bridge is a bascule.
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I’ve never understood that either, because it’s one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done (right after flying). There are just too many things to keep track of and hazards to navigate. As a teen, I regretted taking Physics 101 before getting my learner’s permit. 
One of my childhood friends never got past that fear in high school. He learned to drive much later, and was so terrible that his passengers were very grateful to have survived the experience. He freaked out about every other car near his, and kept anticipating disasters that never happened. Fortunately, he stopped and went back to public transportation. To this day, when I notice drivers braking whenever they pass stationary vehicles (as if those drivers were about to suddenly accelerate and hit them), I think of him.
Ok, now I don’t feel so bad about the time I spend recovering from all the near-misses noticed whenever I’m in my car!
Nope, I’m near Philly. I think the last time I drove across that type of bridge was many years ago in Mystic, CT.
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