Perhaps automation could also be the solution — high-profile or secure buildings could be (apart from arguably detectable hacking) programmed as unavailable destinations. Heck, automation could determine the lowest-profile-target path, and make that more common. DC would be a bitch to get around - but it already is.

I dunno. IF you assume (or start to watch) that the bus would slow a bit, the large flat front, with all its surface area, might make for sort of a reasonable collision (given that it's a completely stupid thing in the first place, so it's all really relative). You could even sort of "jump" to just get bumped to the…

I'm enjoying (too much, really) picturing this being a refinement of some earlier Rube Goldberg version in which the driver blows cigar smoke at a cat which screeches and scares a mouse into running and turning the indicator wheel. Or similar.

I'm just saying. If I drove a golf cart through a crowd of people six friggin' times, eventually, they'd lock me up.

Or perhaps the remote steering the back had the wheels turned right, as he would to make the left turn (front wheels left obviously, rear wheels right a few degrees), and didn't steer back to center soon enough - and that, rather than the beam pivoting on the rear dolly, is what caused that crabbing out of the lane…

Seriously, are people not seeing the collision with the guardrail, as mentioned in the story?

Or, again, it could have been the massive cement guardrail.

Alternative title: man launches rocket-powered, 100 pound missile into crowds SIX TIMES.

That was still just a terrible choice of words to make your hypothetical point.

If only the shakycam was the slightest bit watchable.

I like your point, and I'm curious about that as well. But I think perhaps that's what the big rotating couterweight in your gif-capture accomplishes (the wide bit opposite the allen bolt, with the two discs that look like flat quarters embedded in it). I think its inertia and mass counteracts the vibration (or the…

Do you mean the big cement barrier he hit?

Agreed. But I think during the turn, the beam pivoted relative to the dolly (possibly due to steering dolly understeer). Beam at 12 o'clock, dolly at 1 o'clock. It would be hard to correct bad misalignment with steering. My guess is he either was yelling for the driver to stop or slow, or thought he could slowly steer…

I think when it took the turn, the beam pivoted relative to the back wheels (i.e., beam at 12 o'clock, wheels at 1 o'clock). Even with a remote steering the back wheels... at that speed, it would be hard to constantly correct bad misalignment.

Sort of begs the questiton - why wasn't a flat bed trailer used? It would add weight (and cost, so maybe that's why), but it would alleviate problems, like the rear wheels going out of "alignment" during a turn and plowing into an embankment, for example.

Terry's son Payton said that he's a little sore, but when you're trying to set world records, sometimes a little pain is inevitable.

Didn't the original Beetle have a bud vase, as well?

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VW will in fact build their mid-size SUV in Tennessee, more to come.

I will never understand the rear-seat cab. The point (to me) of a pickup is that you have that huge bed for hauling big objects, like long cuts of lumber, drywall/plywood, and cubic feet of rock/mulch/etc.