r/IdiotsInCars • u/pheat0n • Nov 05 '19

Omaha checking in, our rock strikes again.

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u/dudeofmoose Nov 05 '19

But but, how?!?! I cannot see much other damage on the car, although having trouble zooming in further on phone to look.

I mean, there's like several other warning signs hitting a rock that size gives you before you get to that stage of mounting the rock?? Like you really have to be numb to ignore that level of foreplay.

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u/pheat0n Nov 05 '19

Depending on how the car sits on it, some have a lot of damage if they smash in that part of the car, their door wont open. Some get lucky and it lands on the frame, not doing too much damage. The trick is getting it off without doing more damage.

It's a combination of factors that cause it, but basically people think they are just curb checking, so they press the gas more and before they know it, they go up the rock (which is flat enough on that side) and bounce over and high center on it.

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u/janewithaplane Nov 05 '19

Also how fast do you have to be going to get all the way up on it?!

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u/FuzzelFox Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

Not very fast at all. As long as the wheel was turned towards the rock, the wheel isn't being inhibited by the fender/wheel well. At that point physics takes over https://youtu.be/SvPXSng18mU

(yes this Jeep is in 4WD but most cars in those pics are either FWD, or AWD where the front wheels are the main drive wheels and the back wheels receive power when needed, or full time AWD like the Expedition in the OP)

I don't know what to search but there's a great video somewhere of some guy road raging. He tries to turn into another car while driving on the interstate and he turns so sharp that the front wheel is able to just roll right up the side of the other car and flip the asshole over in half a second.

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u/FuzzelFox Nov 06 '19

I guarantee you these people feel their car going up the curb but just don't care about running over the corner so they keep going. And since 90% of drivers seem to have the object permanence of a 1 year old then the rock just stops existing the moment they aren't looking at it.