Is it possible to drown to not death? I thought that was what sucked about drowning?

I wish we could just adopt a purely weight-based system. At the end of the day, it’s WEIGHT that affects how much it costs for you to fly. If I weigh 125 lb, and bring no luggage, I should be able to pay less than a 300 lb guy with 3 carry-on bags and 2 checked suitcases. That isn’t discrimination; it’s just physics.

I think it would be hilarious to build one that DOES actually spin up to a hilariously high and windy speed. Just leave stuff in that room that’s easy to clean up, and wait for unsuspecting visitors to turn it on and then panic when it won’t turn back off and everything starts flying around.

Nearly all of these vehicles had locked tires, though. It isn’t impossible to lock them up. You just need the right conditions, such as here. Relatively low speed slides. ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH.

Lol true. But I’ve also ice raced my car with studless winter tires on frozen lakes that I could barely stand upright on without spontaneously falling over :P

I tried to think of a clever comment to put here, but all I can think right now is, “This is fucking stupid.”

Lol, I share that exact video on Facebook about 100 times every winter. In fact, I even shared it in another reply in this article somewhere.

ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH.

Sounds about the same as my test. I think my test lasted less than 3 minutes, and involved making a right turn, reversing in a straight line, and parallel parking, and... that’s about it.

On many vehicles, ABS doesn’t function below 5-6 MPH. For example, watch the brake test in this TireRack video (skip to 1:30).

Think about it, if ABS functioned across ALL speeds, then it would essentially operate indefinitely. There needs to be a cutoff where the brakes actually remain applied. On most vehicles that…

FYI, ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH, which is why most of these ABS-equipped vehicles had their wheels locked.

The bus with the wheel at full left-hand lock couldn’t influence its direction of travel because the brakes were locked. If your wheel isn’t spinning, it doesn’t matter where you point it.

If you are sliding downhill with your tires locked, you have zero control. If you allow the tires to spin, you do have SOME…

You don’t understand how ABS works. ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH. If you watch the video, you see that all of these vehicles tires are locked, meaning that ABS was not active, and meaning that they had absolutely zero control over the path the vehicle took.

I don’t understand your question. Yes, they were sliding downhill. If they had released the brakes, they would have had a much better chance of steering away from the pile of mangled metal at the bottom of it. With tires locked, you will slide whichever way gravity dictates. With the tires rolling, you do have a tiny…

Meh. It definitely isn’t a super grippy surface, but ALL of the vehicles in this clip had all four wheels locked. That was the biggest mistake. If these people had let go of the brake pedal, they might have fared much better.

Winter tires actually can provide a lot more ice grip than people think. I ice race on studless winter tires. However, as with any tire, they don’t work when you’ve got your brakes locked. If these people had simply let go of the goddamned brake pedal, they would have been able to avoid this pileup.

I haven’t gone back and looked at the previous episodes again, but it was prominently displayed in the third episode, and considering they said they made a “bespoke” version of that clip for the next few years, I’m assuming they are slowly going to get more and more ridiculous. Just a guess.

OMG, on my way home from work yesterday, I went through four 4-way stop intersections within 60 seconds (short blocks) during rush hour. At the FIRST THREE, nobody knew how the fuck to proceed in an orderly fashion and I wound up sitting there like an idiot waiting for the people who were supposed to go to actually…

Haha, I refuse to street park my car. My apartment has underground parking (technically, I live in Evanston.)

They aren’t saying it ISN’T because of climate change. They’re just saying they can’t prove that it IS because of climate change.