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group911@aol.co 03-21-2022 05:56 AM

Awesome jump
 
Flying Tesla rental car. Sorry. Skip to the 1:55 point. <iframe width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C-zeSEOanvI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

RNajarian 03-21-2022 06:13 AM

Too much car for most people.

I was driving home last night with the family and was first car at the crosswalk waiting for a green light. Some @$$#0|€ in a Tesla pulls up next to me in the right turn lane. Light turns green, he floors it, the Tesla takes off and tries to get ahead of me but soon realizes he wouldn’t make it because of a parked car after the intersection, he cuts me off nearly clips my front passenger bumper, I apply the brakes and nearly get rear ended.

My hate for that person has no bounds endangering my family like that.

If the car didn’t have such acceleration potential he likely wouldn’t have tried that stunt.

The antics seen in this video are not isolated.

Edit: The kid narrating the video makes me sick. As organizer of this “event” I wonder if he has any potential liability. . . . He just happened to be standing at the apex of that hill with numerous devices all recording when the event happened? I would not be surprised if there was some culpability for him.
. . . oh and he has quite an impressive vocabulary.

He appears to pass himself off as a “gear head,” saying “Teslas have radiators.” Likely the part he was referencing was an A/C condenser.

GH85Carrera 03-21-2022 06:25 AM

I hope he got the extra insurance for a rental. And I hope they put him in jail for a few months, and make him pay 100% of the cost of the vehicle.

Steve Carlton 03-21-2022 06:26 AM

Wow.

Crowbob 03-21-2022 06:37 AM

So you’re in the back seat and with sudden and shocking clarity you find yourself vaulted into the air weightless with no forward visibility. Then, still airborne, the car goes nose down and instantaneously your life flashes before your eyes.

I had a dream one time wherein I was passenger in a Jeep CJ that hit a ramp and shot many feet straight up. At the exact apex, weightless, I awoke screaming and sweating half hanging out of the bed bracing for impact.

That, for me, is definitely in the top five of horrible experiences in bed, no question about it.

Racerbvd 03-21-2022 06:46 AM

https://youtu.be/C-zeSEOanvI

Steve Carlton 03-21-2022 06:57 AM

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5PgdZDXg0z0?start=21" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

bob deluke 03-21-2022 07:41 AM

Darwin Award winner right there…..

herr_oberst 03-21-2022 07:47 AM

What a dumbass. What a world we live in.

Fun fact, Teslas do have radiators to cool the motor, inverters and batteries.

RNajarian 03-21-2022 07:53 AM

Update on the incident. The authorities are looking for the driver and occupants.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-search-for-suspect-in-viral-california-tesla-stunt-gone-wrong

David 03-21-2022 07:54 AM

We clicked on it, so.....

stevej37 03-21-2022 08:10 AM

Phhttt....nowheres near as much air as this guy.....:D

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McLovin 03-21-2022 01:27 PM

That’s nothing to be proud of, Rusty.

ltusler 03-21-2022 01:32 PM

50 yards....

Steve Carlton 03-21-2022 01:33 PM

We had an extremely steep drop off from a cross street above and a lot of knuckeheads jumped it when I was in high school. I had a friend with a '69 Camaro in yellow with black stripes and a 307 that he was so proud of. He worked hard at Columbo Bakery and could afford it. He jumped the hill going up and landed on the steep hillside on the far side of the cross road and put his car on its side.

A few years later he was found dead from exposure while duck hunting. I think he got soaking wet, panicked, and got lost. Poor guy. I'll miss Bruce Azaro. He had a heart of gold.

masraum 03-21-2022 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RNajarian (Post 11642149)
Update on the incident. The authorities are looking for the driver and occupants.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-search-for-suspect-in-viral-california-tesla-stunt-gone-wrong

Yep, cops are going to get him. And I suspect the rental car company is going to go after his butt too.

Bill Douglas 03-21-2022 01:58 PM

I feel sorry for the people who live in these locations.

stevej37 03-21-2022 02:19 PM

^^^ They're cheering for the hill.

Tobra 03-21-2022 02:38 PM

There was a street in Orangevale that was sort of like that, but with a less severe drop off. Friend took it on his RD 400 regularly.

They eventually fixed it, flattened out the crest a bit.

Gretch 03-21-2022 02:40 PM

your story sounds like you participated in the stunt............. and are pissed that the other driver got the best of you........

your outrageous indignation reads phony as ****........


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