r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/M_ABDz • Mar 21 '23
What could go wrong street racing in a busy underpass
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u/muskratmuskrat9 Mar 21 '23
I don’t understand how this could have happened since both racing vehicles had their hazards on.
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u/TheSapphireDragon Mar 22 '23
I think you mean the "go whatever speed i want lights"
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u/plasmadood Mar 22 '23
No no no, those are "park wherever I want lights"
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u/Technical_Rich_9373 Mar 22 '23
I think you mean it’s the “something is wrong with my car lights”
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u/DopeBoogie Mar 22 '23
I thought they were called the "I'm scared to go a reasonable speed on the highway but I got on anyway" lights
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u/MarcoLorelei Mar 21 '23
Fucking idiots. Like, I understand the allure of illegal racing but between closed roads or rarely used roads far from cities to avoid pedestrians I fail to see any reason racing anywhere busy.
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u/Ok_Relationship_705 Mar 21 '23
When we did it in High School we did it at like, 2am on abandoned stretches of road.
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u/geoff1036 Mar 23 '23
It's cause this isn't street racing, it's swerving in traffic, as in that's the only goal. Do risky shit and take videos on your phone. Bunch of fools trying to look like baby driver. Street racing doesn't involve changing lanes and if it needs to (someone merges ahead or something like that) then the race is shut down and both cars let out, and fall back to line up again.
If it was street racing the video would have started before the honk.
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u/VerimTamunSalsus Mar 21 '23
Ya so one of those people who thinks hazard lights allow them to purposely be hazards. Hope your insurance cancels you. Twat.
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u/Gamebobbel Mar 22 '23
Hope their vital organs cancel them. They willingly risk the life of others for fun.
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u/ydev Mar 22 '23
This seems to be India and they probably have enough money that they don’t care about insurance.
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u/mike_pants Mar 21 '23
Street racing is a bad idea? Well, whoda thunk.
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u/Vadar501st Mar 22 '23
He even has his high beams on... jesus what stupid guys.... and i beat they blame everyone else for the crash.
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u/SansCitizen Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23
I feel like people who think this would be a good idea really need to play more Need For Speed. I grew up on it, and if there’s 1 thing it taught me, it’s that I can totally drive like a god damn action hero’s stunt double… ~5-10% of the time. the other 90-95% of the time, I end up eating guardrail with a side of my own ass for dinner, smashing headlong into oncoming traffic, yeeting myself into oblivion off the edge of a canyon wall etc… so maybe just keep a safe follow distance irl, signal before lane changes, don’t treat the speed limit like someone else’s high score, you know?
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u/MiniJackFrost02 Mar 22 '23
Wait. I'm not supposed to speed in front of an illegal driver and release the spike strip while calling a roadblock and having a spike strip heli on speed dial???
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u/q36_space_modulator Mar 21 '23
Amazing anyone can drive with the road tilted at 45 degrees like that, let alone race.
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u/HeartlesSoldier Mar 22 '23
Street racing in general, if it's on a public street, it's 100% ignorance.
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u/chrisplaysgam Mar 22 '23
The one white car at the beginning who hit the brakes hard before anything even happened is the only intelligent life in this video
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u/Geek_off_the_streets Mar 22 '23
And driving with your brights on. I hope they get everything they deserve.
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u/geoff1036 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
This is not street racing, this is traffic swerving. Racing implies competition, the only competition here is to see who can do the more risky bullshit. Real street racing takes place on quiet empty streets or in industrial complexes (with permission, surprisingly often).
You'll say "why don't they just do it at the track then" but it's because there's lots of rules and regulations at the track. The grassroots lawlessness element is definitely part of the draw though.
This is a trend I've paid attention as it grows and it's entirely pointless. The goal is to, idk, look like baby driver or a car chase swerving through traffic? There's no race. No honk, no room to actually get a pull in. The whole goal of this is just to keep up with the lead car as they swerve through traffic as fast as possible. Maybe it should be called "traffic tag." Street racers are particular about the circumstances they run in because they want the result to represent the truth of their car being faster.
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u/skorponok Mar 26 '23
They could have killed someone. This is why people should be banned from driving for life for shit like this.
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u/That-Pollution-6126 Mar 21 '23
I wish there was a legal street racing thing, only, no civilian driver to worry about, just normal city roads and fast cars
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Mar 21 '23
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u/Butterypoop Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23
Are you still for that if you are one that is found need to be killed?
Edit: wording
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u/AdThink6541 Mar 21 '23
Amateur, If he hadn’t shown the gauge he would’ve been able to avoid crashing
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u/dokjreko Mar 21 '23
Not a brain cell in sight.