Planes do not just drop out of the sky when the engine dies. The aircraft is your parachute unless it is being torn apart in which case you probably won’t be able to bail out.

Social media was a mistake.

Let’s be real, he’s a hyper miler, he didn’t “nail the brakes,” as the brakes just turn useful kinetic energy into heat, which is waste. He coasted down to some speed in advance of the traffic, then held that speed, likely refusing to go faster than it even if a pulse in the traffic would provide enough gap to do so.

In SoCal you can generally see miles ahead of you when you’re on the freeway, so I don’t doubt this guy was quickly slowing down LONG before he needed to, and probably created even more traffic with his stunt.

There’s a difference between that and what this person described, which was nailing the brakes without surrounding traffic having begun to slow in the hopes that by the time you creep there, the stoppage is clear.

going just above the minimum speed limit.

Driving into a blinding light would also not be smart.

Not even to mention the driver CLEARLY wasnt supposed to be driving... yanno... off the damn road.

Having driven by a few live TV broadcasts, those lights are very noticeable on broad daylight, let alone at night.

Having experience with those lights, if you can’t see them - or the people illuminated by them - you maybe shouldn’t be driving. They aren't subtle. 

lol, the only thing Tesla is doing with the interior cameras is recording for Exhibit A in liability suits. 

having worked ENG and currently work in production...no. These lights are extremely noticeable and if nothing else the actual bloom from the light would have been very visible. The driver wasn’t paying attention, plain and simple.

1st. Gear. Autonomous driving is a nice party trick for the most part.

Driver: “I have a dashcam...!!!”

“She also appeared to be reporting from the side of the road without any reflective clothing.”

RE: 1st Gear,

Option A: vote him out

But that’s a stupid way of evaluating anything. You get out from under a tree or out of a pool in a storm because you’re more likely to get hit there - it’s not very bright to do nothing just because it’s possible to get hit by lighting anywhere. This isn’t complicated, but you’re making me feel like it might be to…

Exactly the correct take. People are risking their lives to save yours, have some fucking respect for that and be focused and ready for anything. Good hearted bystanders are not your on-call first responders.

If you don’t think it’s more likely to happen while taking a downward pointing selfie with the car sinking under her while she stares up at the phone in the middle of river, I dunno what to tell you. At any rate, if you’re rushing over what’s already demonstrably thin ice with a kayak - already a risky activity - to…