It was some jackass doing laps in the parking garage. The cringe boy racer kids do this shit because if it's not on the street then they can't catch charges beyond trespassing.
This is part of the reason I don’t like biking on busy roads anymore. The higher power the car has, the older the driver tends to be. Then the lower power cars are all driven by tired people and door dashers who are trying to watch the TV they are missing by door dashing 70 hours a week, or dipshits in trucks so big that they won’t even notice when they run me over.
That was a BMW M440i (i recognize the wheels, color and slope of the back). It has a 386hp/398lb-ft turbocharged inline 6 with a mild hybrid system. BMW says it can do 0-60 in 4.3s, but independent tests have shown it can do 3.9-4.1s
Most likely this idiot used launch control in the parking structure wanting to show off and lost control, eating the pillar
Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.
Yeah, I saw some assuming he was drunk but it is just as likely that this guy made a split second decision and jumped on it thinking what could go wrong I've done it before and poof.
People don't like to view vehicles as murder machines but they very much are. If raising the front end 40% increases the chance of death by 40% to pedestrians and the only benefis were "I like the way it looks" or in this case the car being designed to accelerate at speeds that arent comfortable or safe because "I think it can be fun sometimes" at the detriment of others is just poorly planned.
Sure the guy is at fault, but so is the company that manufactured it, and the government bodies that allowed it on public roads.
If someone wants to have a hobby playing with and racing cars, that's fine; but they don't belong in public areas.
Fun fact, not even the most powerful version of that car, that would be the M4 which can do under 3 seconds in the xDrive variant.
But it has enough tuning potential that you could get M4 performance out of the M440i no problem. B58 is considered to be the modern day equivalent of the Toyota 2JZ, to the point that even Toyota uses it in the modern Supras.
I've heard that the only thing slowing down cars now is tires. Like we can make motors or ICE hit the wall of material science in the rubber meeting the road.
the reason i'm a proponent of the adaptive cruise control systems is that i was very, very nearly in a 30 car pileup on the Grapevine (if you don't know the stretch of road, I-5 north of LA, south of bakersfield. very mountainy and curvy, there's always a fire or an accident when i drive by four times a year). It was foggy and the ACC saw the car ahead of me before I did, let us stop before hitting it and making it a 32 car pileup.
When I was growing up (80s and 90s) that size accident would have multiple fatalities. Only one person had to go to the hospital, and she was pregnant. They wanted to check on the baby. Everyone else just had light bruising/abrasions.
Modern cars seem like a miracle compared to what i started driving.
That's between them and their therapists. It's even funnier for me because my kids and I (even my wife to a lesser degree) joke around in every conceivable way, bad, good and everything in between, and that's just how we roll in our family. My kids love it, evidently, me too. I imagine how many people are butthurt by that right now, and can't stop laughing when I think the images they must have of me in their heads without ever having crossed a word with me.
Let them downvote me to hell, have some overly-delicate mod delete the post, or even ban me (no idea if that's even a thing here). It won't change anything.
We're doomed as humans if all there is 'I'm offended' time anyone says anything. It used to be that everything was a joke, now they are the jokes. So sad.
I was in a high speed wreck. Two Giant American Trucks filled with 8 adults. The adrenaline/shock was intense, but the only bad thing that happened was I lost my glasses, we were all fine.
I hadn't played since it came out really and played some for the first time again last month. My dedecution has been if it's metal, you can plow through it, if it's wood it'll plow through you.
And then all the sudden a few objects will defy these assumptions and you wind up driving through a fence and find a metal rod turning you into a pretzel.
Yes it is pure greed and if you make it more expensive for them to do that then they will just gouge even harder to make up the difference in lost revenue.
What we should really do is tie all of the CEOs of those companies up to poles like this and run into them like this guy did that column and after a couple of years the problem would solve itself.
Very true - because taking away his license wouldn’t physically prevent him from operating a vehicle, we shouldn’t do it at all. Because incremental progress is for losers.
when the police revoked my MIL's license in front of us, i'll be honest i've never been more thankful for police. She knew she was a menace on the road and enjoyed it.
I used to work for a warehouse that had badge readers on the forklifts. You would "start" the forklift by tapping your badge to the reader. It would be no effort to add that to a car.
I've watched this video three times before seeing this post and I thought the guy was handcuffed and had a hood over his head for some reason. Thank you for pointing out that's his head.
Yeah I was trying to estimate partly on the apparent size of the garage. It's been a while since I drove a car that could take off if you didn't pay attention
From the engine fluids spray past the pillar it looks like he was speeding down the isle, slammed into the pillar and the offset impact turned the car body a bit. Probably backed away at a different angle than the impact since the front is all crooked too.
I think there is a little bit too much randomness going on in the video to be AI generated. Messy details from the real world that AI doesn't add in, but too subtle to be the result of prompting.
Not that fancy, same transmission is used by like 10-20 different marques including Mopar products (literally the same transmission is used in Jeeps, RAM trucks and Rolls-Royce) But I know the fluid from my rusty 19 year old Audi which has the old 6 speed but came with updated software that requires the newer fluid from the 8 speed.
But I must say, it's an excellent fluid. 400k km on the original fluid and filter before it started giving trouble at -30C (fixed by the fluid and filter change). And this transmission is actually more mechanically complex and finicky than the newer 8 speed ones so imagine how long those might last if someone decides to replace the fluid at ZF's suggested interval rather than BMW or Audi's "lifetime" spec lol
That’s a bit dehumanizing. Some people go grey early in life and the guy is probably crumpled over because he’s in shock. Someone with long grey hair deserves to be part of society as much as anyone else.
Second, I can sympathize with older people who avoid giving up their licenses. We have built an individualistic society that expects everyone to fend for themselves. It would be difficult to find/pay a driver every time you need something at the store, have a medical appointment, want to get your hair cut, want to take a walk by the water, etc. Even if they had the social network for it, they’d feel like a nuisance. Nobody wants to close the chapter on the independent part of their life, even when it is time.
Both my grandpas gave up their driving licenses this year after nearly killing themselves and other people, and were devastated. So I definitely understand how it feels.
But they might've killed people. We really had to talk them through not driving anymore. Old people really must understand it's not about them, it's about the safety an life of others.
I hope I remember that when I get old.
Yeah I agree that it’s a hard thing, even when it is ultimately the best thing for society. I think in our minds, we are always our best selves with the same capabilities as we have already had. It’s hard to accept if your reflex time is no longer adequate or if you aren’t as strong as you were before…even worse to accept it when dementia is involved.
I hope I’ll be able to set my life up to allow me to give up my drivers licence when the time comes, but I totally get why it is such a struggle for some. It’s going to involve moving to a more walkable area for me, and that’s got a big price tag that many can’t afford.
It would be difficult to find/pay a driver every time you need something at the store, have a medical appointment, want to get your hair cut, want to take a walk by the water, etc.
can confirm. i'm disabled, and I really shouldn't be driving given all the medications i'm on. I have to plan two days ahead to get all my meds timed right if I want to drive a car, and I basically have to trade pain management for alertness. So I'm awake and tetchy if i'm driving.
my car weighs 3000 pounds. my bike was already 75 pounds before I slapped a motor on her. Together we're about 300 pounds of rolling furry. We top out at 30mph, 20 if i'm not going down a hill. If i'm going to fuck up and cause an accident in traffic because my consciousness is altered, i'm the only one getting hurt.
Dude is very possibly a boomer, or I guess Gen X, douchebag, but he’s not necessarily much past 60. He looks like hell because he just totaled his midlife crisis car in memeworthy fashion and had half a dozen airbags explode in his face.
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It is amazing how fast this car must have accelerated in this rather limited space to make an accident like this.
That's exactly what I thought, that's some serious acceleration.
Lots of crumple zones too... But yeah, lol.
It was some jackass doing laps in the parking garage. The cringe boy racer kids do this shit because if it's not on the street then they can't catch charges beyond trespassing.
Looks like it was the old guy next to tge car, no. Cringe behavior has no age limit. But realistically, maybe not everyone should drive 400hp cars
@Treczoks That doesn't look like a sports car, either.
At least not anymore
Seems like a bmw/toyota supra, fairly fast. also as the camera whips to the dog right near the end I think that was the run up to the stop section.
This may be a whoosh but-Looks like a 15-17 Ecoboost Mustang
315 hp
0-60 in 5.2 sec
1/4 mile in 13.9 @ 98mph
Those are bmw wheels
You're right, I thought it was these
https://www.driveandreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015_ecoboost_mustang_review_10.jpg
Must be a 4 series varient- should have seen those huge reflectors.
Final guess- M440i
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a34288846/2021-bmw-m440i-xdrive-by-the-numbers/
382 hp 0-60 3.8 sec 1/4 mile 12.8 sec @ 112mph
No slouch. Still impressed at the destruction in such a confined area.
Good AWD hookup and a total moron at the wheel.
This is part of the reason I don’t like biking on busy roads anymore. The higher power the car has, the older the driver tends to be. Then the lower power cars are all driven by tired people and door dashers who are trying to watch the TV they are missing by door dashing 70 hours a week, or dipshits in trucks so big that they won’t even notice when they run me over.
It looks more like a crash car, indeed.
That was a BMW M440i (i recognize the wheels, color and slope of the back). It has a 386hp/398lb-ft turbocharged inline 6 with a mild hybrid system. BMW says it can do 0-60 in 4.3s, but independent tests have shown it can do 3.9-4.1s
Most likely this idiot used launch control in the parking structure wanting to show off and lost control, eating the pillar
It can do 60-0 even faster.
Within the length of its own hood apparently.
I love it when people know things
Must be why you left reddit. 😏
Today I Learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_control_(automotive)
Why would this even be present in a street legal vehicle?
Money.
I sometimes wonder why the US even has a government.
An artifact of more sensible times. Besides, without it how would we even know who our glorious leader was?
🙄🥺
It did, once.
Before the dark times.
Before the Empire.
1491
Incidentally that’s a German car that’s sold worldwide with that feature. Japanese, American, Chinese, British and other cars have that feature too.
Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.
What the hell, that's STOCK for a BMW M series?
That makes skateboards sound safe.
That's been pretty common in high end performance cars for over a decade. Good for Darwin awards.
Fortunately it's also noisy enough that you can IMMEDIATELY tell and get the fuck out of the way. EVs need to start making noise like that lol.
The Grand Tour did an absolutely hilarious take on it, even Clarkson agreed it's stupid in street cars
Today, that guy learned as well.
Yeah, I saw some assuming he was drunk but it is just as likely that this guy made a split second decision and jumped on it thinking what could go wrong I've done it before and poof.
People don't like to view vehicles as murder machines but they very much are. If raising the front end 40% increases the chance of death by 40% to pedestrians and the only benefis were "I like the way it looks" or in this case the car being designed to accelerate at speeds that arent comfortable or safe because "I think it can be fun sometimes" at the detriment of others is just poorly planned.
Sure the guy is at fault, but so is the company that manufactured it, and the government bodies that allowed it on public roads.
If someone wants to have a hobby playing with and racing cars, that's fine; but they don't belong in public areas.
That's the same thought I had, that's some incredible acceleration to have a crash like that inside a building.
Fun fact, not even the most powerful version of that car, that would be the M4 which can do under 3 seconds in the xDrive variant.
But it has enough tuning potential that you could get M4 performance out of the M440i no problem. B58 is considered to be the modern day equivalent of the Toyota 2JZ, to the point that even Toyota uses it in the modern Supras.
I've heard that the only thing slowing down cars now is tires. Like we can make motors or ICE hit the wall of material science in the rubber meeting the road.
Yeah, EVs can drive their tyres at the absolute limit of traction on launch.
Absolutely amazing how intact the cabin is. Modern car safety is phenomenal.
Back in my day, cars killed their inattentive drunk drivers. Now, they just kill innocent children.
the reason i'm a proponent of the adaptive cruise control systems is that i was very, very nearly in a 30 car pileup on the Grapevine (if you don't know the stretch of road, I-5 north of LA, south of bakersfield. very mountainy and curvy, there's always a fire or an accident when i drive by four times a year). It was foggy and the ACC saw the car ahead of me before I did, let us stop before hitting it and making it a 32 car pileup.
When I was growing up (80s and 90s) that size accident would have multiple fatalities. Only one person had to go to the hospital, and she was pregnant. They wanted to check on the baby. Everyone else just had light bruising/abrasions.
Modern cars seem like a miracle compared to what i started driving.
The future is now
"Innocent children"? Do you have children? Because mine are assholes whose only purpose is to constantly terrorize me and keep me poor. 🤣
... So you'd be ok with them getting run over and killed? Lmao
Depends on the life insurance, I think? 🤔
They are too sensitive on here for jokes like that. Even the word truck or BANG scares them.
That's between them and their therapists. It's even funnier for me because my kids and I (even my wife to a lesser degree) joke around in every conceivable way, bad, good and everything in between, and that's just how we roll in our family. My kids love it, evidently, me too. I imagine how many people are butthurt by that right now, and can't stop laughing when I think the images they must have of me in their heads without ever having crossed a word with me.
Let them downvote me to hell, have some overly-delicate mod delete the post, or even ban me (no idea if that's even a thing here). It won't change anything.
We're doomed as humans if all there is 'I'm offended' time anyone says anything. It used to be that everything was a joke, now they are the jokes. So sad.
I think that's the driver at the beginning, sadly sitting against his wreck, but otherwise fine.
I was in a high speed wreck. Two Giant American Trucks filled with 8 adults. The adrenaline/shock was intense, but the only bad thing that happened was I lost my glasses, we were all fine.
Support column built by the same company that makes telephone poles for GTA
I hadn't played since it came out really and played some for the first time again last month. My dedecution has been if it's metal, you can plow through it, if it's wood it'll plow through you.
And then all the sudden a few objects will defy these assumptions and you wind up driving through a fence and find a metal rod turning you into a pretzel.
You can't park there, mate
Well actually...
That pole is incredible
Thank you very much.
That's what she said
What do you mean "may not buff out?" Slap some fresh paint on, and that pillar should be good as new!
The Americans should build their houses like this column, instead out of paper mache.
They have a hard time even affording the cheap paper mache shit they make them out of now.
I can't imagine how much more eye watering the price would be if they were made like this.
Could that be because companies use the cheapest materials and labour to then sell the houses expensively and reap massive profits??
Yes it is pure greed and if you make it more expensive for them to do that then they will just gouge even harder to make up the difference in lost revenue.
What we should really do is tie all of the CEOs of those companies up to poles like this and run into them like this guy did that column and after a couple of years the problem would solve itself.
That's a lot of headlight fluid.
And zero blinker fluid as usual
OH NO ALL THE TRANS MISSION FLUID
we gotta get more fluid or the mission will burn out
Marvel heroes:We did it! We saved the city!
The city:
The city: (is still alive and also isn't having its brains being used as biological CPUs powered by Soylent Green)
Lore!
Lal?
I know it's a parking garage and all, but you can't park there mate.
Crossposted to /c/youcantparktheremate
The old shithead, leaning on the rear tire, is lucky his fuck-up did not start a fire. Revoke his driver's license permanently.
Because everyone knows cars won't start unless you have a valid license right?
Very true - because taking away his license wouldn’t physically prevent him from operating a vehicle, we shouldn’t do it at all. Because incremental progress is for losers.
when the police revoked my MIL's license in front of us, i'll be honest i've never been more thankful for police. She knew she was a menace on the road and enjoyed it.
That day is probably coming, where you tap your license to start the car.
I used to work for a warehouse that had badge readers on the forklifts. You would "start" the forklift by tapping your badge to the reader. It would be no effort to add that to a car.
You can't park there mate.
Did he hit the accelerator rather than the brake?
also crazy that he got going fast enough in a garage to do that much damage.
No, it appears he hit the break instead of the brake.
How is my question. Also it looks like a modern art piece.
This guy must have posted just after you. His explanation seems likely.
https://lemmy.zip/comment/27451186
Why is my question.
Why can't we see the flux capacitor?
Because it's in the back behind the driver's seat, silly.
Just under 400hp with insane traction elements and lots of stupidity.
Has some light cosmetic work but low miles and drives great!
No lowball offers!! I know what I got!
I’m sorry, where is the fucking engine?
With god
i was hungy :c
Well at least the old dipshit looks appropriately miserable. I give even odds on his insurance dropping him after this shit.
I've watched this video three times before seeing this post and I thought the guy was handcuffed and had a hood over his head for some reason. Thank you for pointing out that's his head.
Title is clean on Carfax
shit. hit the pole at 50?
Mach 50 I think
Looks more like 80+. That damage is WILD.
Yeah I was trying to estimate partly on the apparent size of the garage. It's been a while since I drove a car that could take off if you didn't pay attention
But... How? There's about 10m of space to accelerate, is there a pneumatic catapult for assisted take off?
JATO
Jet assisted take off?
Jorth Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Just A Tiny Orifice
Jorts and Tees Only.
Juck around and tind out
It doesn’t look like a 1967 Impala…
Fair enough.
From the engine fluids spray past the pillar it looks like he was speeding down the isle, slammed into the pillar and the offset impact turned the car body a bit. Probably backed away at a different angle than the impact since the front is all crooked too.
What does this button do?
The spread of debris is honestly impressive.
Lots and lots of brittle plastic
Oh, I recognize this, it's the first level of Driver on Playstation 1
Dude he first driver was one of the best games
You mean the only level in driver for the PS1
Thought that was blood at first 😱
Mechanical blood
I love how the guy taking the video is delaying his reaction until the incident is fully documented.
Sir, you can't disassemble here
Is this AI-generated? I can not put my finger on why, but it feels like it.
I think there is a little bit too much randomness going on in the video to be AI generated. Messy details from the real world that AI doesn't add in, but too subtle to be the result of prompting.
Exactly what I thought when I opened it. Everything feels off in that video.
Why would he do that?
Someone watched Tokyo Drift too many times growing up
walking will sort their life out
Earlier in the day that car had a facehugger on it.
What's the red shit?
Car blood
Probably ATF, automatic transmission fluid.
Probably a mix of oil, coolant, gasoline etc.
Thank you!
Everybody else has cc already said, but the transmission fluid in particular is why it’s red.
Lifeguard Fluid 8 is blue or green, I forgot which exactly but definitely not red.
This would more likely be coolant, though I'm not sure what colour coolant modern BMWs use
Fair enough. I’ve checked levels on a good number of transmissions over the years but never a fancy BMW’s. Possibly also power steering fluid.
Not that fancy, same transmission is used by like 10-20 different marques including Mopar products (literally the same transmission is used in Jeeps, RAM trucks and Rolls-Royce) But I know the fluid from my rusty 19 year old Audi which has the old 6 speed but came with updated software that requires the newer fluid from the 8 speed.
But I must say, it's an excellent fluid. 400k km on the original fluid and filter before it started giving trouble at -30C (fixed by the fluid and filter change). And this transmission is actually more mechanically complex and finicky than the newer 8 speed ones so imagine how long those might last if someone decides to replace the fluid at ZF's suggested interval rather than BMW or Audi's "lifetime" spec lol
Not even Matt armstrong would take this
Ai, Rafa, no puedo. la ignorancia mi enoja
The accident aged Duncan 40 years on impact
Holey shit!
That old corpse is the driver? Damn just stop driving dude.
That’s a bit dehumanizing. Some people go grey early in life and the guy is probably crumpled over because he’s in shock. Someone with long grey hair deserves to be part of society as much as anyone else.
Second, I can sympathize with older people who avoid giving up their licenses. We have built an individualistic society that expects everyone to fend for themselves. It would be difficult to find/pay a driver every time you need something at the store, have a medical appointment, want to get your hair cut, want to take a walk by the water, etc. Even if they had the social network for it, they’d feel like a nuisance. Nobody wants to close the chapter on the independent part of their life, even when it is time.
Both my grandpas gave up their driving licenses this year after nearly killing themselves and other people, and were devastated. So I definitely understand how it feels. But they might've killed people. We really had to talk them through not driving anymore. Old people really must understand it's not about them, it's about the safety an life of others. I hope I remember that when I get old.
Yeah I agree that it’s a hard thing, even when it is ultimately the best thing for society. I think in our minds, we are always our best selves with the same capabilities as we have already had. It’s hard to accept if your reflex time is no longer adequate or if you aren’t as strong as you were before…even worse to accept it when dementia is involved.
I hope I’ll be able to set my life up to allow me to give up my drivers licence when the time comes, but I totally get why it is such a struggle for some. It’s going to involve moving to a more walkable area for me, and that’s got a big price tag that many can’t afford.
They're the ones who have built the environment we’ve inherited.
can confirm. i'm disabled, and I really shouldn't be driving given all the medications i'm on. I have to plan two days ahead to get all my meds timed right if I want to drive a car, and I basically have to trade pain management for alertness. So I'm awake and tetchy if i'm driving.
my car weighs 3000 pounds. my bike was already 75 pounds before I slapped a motor on her. Together we're about 300 pounds of rolling fur
ry. We top out at 30mph, 20 if i'm not going down a hill. If i'm going to fuck up and cause an accident in traffic because my consciousness is altered, i'm the only one getting hurt.Sure, but maybe grandpa doesnt need a 380 horsepower car with launch contol.
Dude is very possibly a boomer, or I guess Gen X, douchebag, but he’s not necessarily much past 60. He looks like hell because he just totaled his midlife crisis car in memeworthy fashion and had half a dozen airbags explode in his face.
Someone who's, IMO, too old to be driving anything. He should be on his city's version of Old Age Taxis with reduced fares and local drop off points.