TTAC Video of the Week: Don't Go Showing Off
We all know that when you try to show off, you often end up in a ditch.
It's a lesson many of us learn as kids -- we try to do a trick on our bikes or take a turn too fast, and we get a dose of humble pie. Yet, we don't fully learn, because we get our driver's license and do the same dumb stuff while driving a car.
To be clear, I don't know how old this driver is, though he sounds middle-aged. We do know he was apparently showing off for his girlfriend.
We also can guess that it will end just as it does.
There is some mildly NSFW language at that link. Sorry about the bitcoin hashtags -- personally I ignored them so I could watch the carnage.
Be careful out there, kids.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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narrow ditch
land upside down
cant open doors
drown
Traction control is slowing me down, let me turn it off the nannies (click)... OK now we are really mov... (skidding sounds) CRASH.
Waiting for a tight corner to absolutely stab the throttle in your v8. Galaxy brain move.
@Tim, How many vehicles have you driven into something in the past 10 years?