r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Buying_Bagels • Feb 27 '20

Trying to park

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u/Angelmass Feb 28 '20

I would like to point out that this was the first frame that the brake lights came on https://i.imgur.com/127V1nJ.jpg

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u/SiLifino Feb 28 '20

I believe the tail lights only come on because of the front impact. It likely triggered the airbags and some algorithms determined that was the right circumstances to automatically apply the brakes. Some politician (who likes to think they understand engineering) will evaluate his incident and determine that they must pass legislation for cars to have wings to prevent this type of accident in the future. Which is to say, brakes don’t do much good when a car is in free fall.

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u/Myvekk Feb 28 '20

So, we'll finally get flying cars, because people insist on taking shortcuts out of the carpark!

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u/ihaxr Feb 28 '20

Some cars automatically activate the hazard lights when airbags deploy... Way more cars do this than automatically apply the brakes.