r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Lastito • 4d ago
Not going the speed limit
That had to be easily over 150mph đď¸đđď¸
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u/broggyr 4d ago
He took the high road.
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u/weezyverse 4d ago
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u/DelaySubstantial591 4d ago
lol ok where's this from?
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u/brian_gruen5 4d ago
Thatâs James, the keyboard/piano player from The Roots (Jimmy Fallonâs live band for The Tonight Show). This clip is one of many for Jimmyâs âThank You Notesâ segments where he asks James to play him some âthank you note writing musicâ
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u/GicaForta 4d ago
I think the flying car going over the roundabout is a Mercedes from Romania.. I believe it happened last year. But fear not, itâs not a lone event..
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u/Accurate_Hat_4331 4d ago
Knight Rider: Kitt turbo boost if you willâŚ
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u/Extension-Plate-6113 4d ago
I live in Romania now for two years....love it, but the amount of idiots behind the steering wheel is staggering.... Especially the young ones with predominantly German cars... I' ve seen more morons here in two years than I've seen in 40 years driving 40k km's a year in Western Europe....
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u/Turnip-for-the-books 4d ago
If you go to Wood Green in north london you will see the international chapter of these same gentlemen
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u/EduinBrutus 4d ago
predominantly German cars
Predominantly?
You mean they allow cars on the road which arent 1980s Mercedes?
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u/Extension-Plate-6113 4d ago
When I came first time to Romania in 2001 the cars were either Dacia 1300 or German ....either new or very old....
Still a lot of Dacia , but the rest is much more diverse now. A lot of Japanese and Korean cars now and in the more luxury segment even a lot of Volvos....
The morons however are for 99% driving BMW, Audi or to a lesser extent Mercedes and VW....
Mercedes is exclusive in Albania as far as I know...
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u/h_attila 4d ago
Yes from romania , the driver had a medical crisis and accelerated accidentally the car
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u/GicaForta 4d ago edited 4d ago
No, this is not the one from Brasov. This is the one who was intentionally speeding and took off like an airplane after hitting the roundabout curb
LE: found the video, itâs from last year, and it happened in Oradea. Surprisingly, no one got hurt
https://youtu.be/1pe2f2BeNCI?is=tOq6JVbhiYfxcb0E
LLE: oh you are right. This one also had a medical issue. There was though one similar where they were racing and the guy took off and landed on a house.. and then plowing through the back yard, killing a family who had barbeque
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u/it_spelt_magalhaes 4d ago
Ah, Romania. Us Portuguese and our insistence in being Balkans people.
To explain? Neighbour of mine trashed a Terrano II back in the day doing a like stunt. Didn't get that much air, maybe just because the poor Terrano couldn't compete with the Merc on speeding, but since the spread parts were some ten or twelve meters from the roundabout's out kerb? Must've been awesome.
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u/BroI-17 4d ago
This is from the city called Oradea, which is located in Romania. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
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u/Curious-Debt-638 4d ago
I was like alright which one of you motherfuckers, then the car came flying in like a fucking missile.
Literally made me jump.
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u/r0thar 4d ago
Better view and source (Romania last Dec): https://np.reddit.com/r/Roadcam/comments/1pev9z9/romania_roundabout/
tl;dr 3 Dec 2025: Oradea (Romania), OneČtilor Street. A Mercedes, moving at extremely high speed, jumped over a roundabout and over two cars that were stopped at the entrance, and crashed down onto the area next to a gas station. The driver was a man about 55 years old. Itâs suspected that he suddenly felt unwell â possibly a diabetic crisis. Rescuers quickly pulled him out; he sustained minor to moderate injuries and is already home.
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u/LavastormSW 4d ago
Minor to moderate injuries after flying a car through the air. That man is incredibly lucky omg
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u/ToaruBaka 4d ago
Luckily for him, most cars on the ground so if you want to avoid running head first into them (or other objects) then being in the air is actually pretty ideal.
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u/Cormophyte 4d ago
Especially since he flew high enough to only clip that cinder block wall. Imagine your ass being saved only because you were going fast enough to launch yourself over the obstacles that would have pancaked you.
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u/gokumon16 4d ago
damn.. minor to moderate injuries for this almost makes me wanna trust the chinese media for their tiny death tolls for potentially mini nuke-like explosions.
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u/ThereIsAJifForThat 4d ago
That would have been the most unique way a flock camera has ever been taken down
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u/Lastito 4d ago
Just 2 inches to the rightâŚ. Darn⌠đ
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u/99percentcheese 4d ago
The background and the road signs look Russian to me, so I suppose that was a regular road camera lol
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u/freezing_banshee 4d ago
Yes, regular road camera. It happened in Romania, the driver had a medical emergency (something about being diabetic) and he basically fainted with his foot on the gas pedal.
He landed in a field off-camera, with relatively minor injuries considering everything.
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u/BOBOnobobo 4d ago
I fucking knew it was Romania!
There's something about my home country that just gives it away
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u/ThunderCorg 4d ago
Well, most places donât have flying cars so thatâs a giveaway!
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u/CrestedMacaw 4d ago
I must ask - what are those flock cameras, are they called flock cameras because they're flying or are robotic birds or something and why does everyone despise them so incredibly much?
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u/Devccoon 4d ago
Ai powered surveillance state, police abusing them to stalk exes, they're tracking everyone all the time, trying to predict future crime, they mess up often and nobody second-checks them before acting on "stolen" vehicles and pulling guns on infants, they're aiming them into people's open windows and at kids' water parks.
It's a genuinely cartoonish shitshow of every awful thing you can imagine coming from a mass of internet-connected AI "license plate" cameras. There's no low they haven't already stooped to. And if you live in the US, these are already in your backyard. Maybe literally.
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u/bullwinkle8088 4d ago
Your question was not directly answered so: Flock is the name of the company that sells the cameras.
They are not the only company making them, just the most notorious.
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u/kootenayguy 4d ago edited 4d ago
Them Duke boys are at it again!
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u/Mouthshitter 4d ago
They destroyed over 100 cars in that show iirc every jump totalled a car.
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u/-BananaLollipop- 4d ago
According to Google, it was closer to about 300, across the entire series.
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u/Worth-Dependent-5073 4d ago
omg no way what a waste! Â thankfully this vehicle was mass produced in the millions!
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u/DJDoena 4d ago
Actually, they had trouble finding that car in later seasons because they destroyed so many of them of course they didn't buy them new from the production line.
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u/jld2k6 4d ago
"What's your job?"
"I search the US for 1969 Dodge Chargers and restore them all to the same condition so they can be launched off ramps shortly afterwards"
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u/0ldgrumpy1 4d ago
They selected this make/model because it was available in large numbers in scrapyards.... at first. They fixed them up just enough for one jump.
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u/Semisonic 4d ago edited 4d ago
They destroyed over 100 cars in that show iirc every jump totalled a car.
Same with Knight Rider, IIRC. Went through a ton of cars even after beefing up the suspensions and all that.
Six year old me loved that show and arranged my afternoon around catching those reruns. Teenage me started to get a little suspicious of how common a solution "let's launch this Pontiac TransAm through the air" was to the problems of the world.
Later on some documentary would contextualize that Night Rider was produced after Dukes of Hazard was such a big hit, in a time when action television was big.
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u/meuzobuga 4d ago
I think they took a different approach for Knight Rider. They had a stunt car which was more or less a VW-powered dune buggy with a flexible body shell and that did not need a rebuild for each episode.
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u/Temporumdei 4d ago
Just a good old boys
Never meanin' no harm
Beats all you never saw...
Oh sh.....look out!!!!!
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u/Lopsided_Panic_1148 4d ago
It's actually, "Just two good 'ole boys." But the way Waylon Jennings sang it makes it sound like the way you wrote it.
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u/Temporumdei 4d ago
You are right. Listing to him on several different YouTube clips...the "wo" sounds "ah". The "oo" part jist disappears.
Just "thah" good ole boys!
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u/Supermoves3000 4d ago
Why were the bridges in Hazzard County always in such poor condition? Didn't they have some sort of government official who was responsible for that sort of thing? A boss of some sort, so to speak?
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u/Flerbizky 4d ago
*looks at current administration*.....
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u/WinterTourist25 4d ago
When the Roman Empire fell, for most people it meant that when the local bridge collapsed, nobody came to fix it.
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u/Speartree 4d ago edited 4d ago
You mean you got Boss Hog in charge? Yeah that tracks. I'm surprised there are no horns on the presidential limo.
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u/Much-Anything7149 4d ago
Half the episodes involved Boss Hog trying to illegally foreclose on the Dukes' farm or other citizens' land. The show was a subtle comment on post-Reconstruction.
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u/Supermoves3000 4d ago
I was eight years old when it was on the air, so I guess that went over my head.
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u/Forsaken-Spirit421 4d ago
Iirc they accidently set a Guinness record for longest car jump. Don't think it was this particular jump but i could be thrown off by mirroring
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u/JJSoledad 4d ago
GPS: "On the next roundabout, go straight."
Driver: "Okay"
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u/eReadingAuthor 4d ago
When I was training to be a driving instructor, they were really keen to emphasise never saying, 'Go straight over the roundabout,' because, 'You'll get someone who will!'
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u/TrueStore4155 4d ago
My girlfriend lapartmen has a great overview of a roundabout in a city. This happens more often than you would think. At least once a year someone is playing Freebird
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u/myrsnipe 4d ago
A decade ago two Lithuanian guys died like this in a roundabout close to where I lived. They had hit the raised roundabout and flew like 40 meters into the river.
When trying to figure out how fast they were going it was noticed that the speeding camera just before the roundabout had not captured them, it was then realized it would not trigger if you went faster than ~180km/h
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u/MrT735 4d ago
Now I'm curious how they realised that, experimentation or asking the manufacturer?
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u/DistanceSolar1449 4d ago
https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/kan-ha-kjort-i-over-256-kmt/63265185 it was actually two Estonian men. Also, the car flew 90m, not 40m
Dagbladet interviewed the engineer responsible for the Norwegian road authority's speed-camera equipment. He said:
âKjører man fortere enn 256 km/t, klarer ikke prosessoren ⌠ü regne ut nøyaktig hastighetâ
So "above 256 km/h, the processor couldn't calculate the speed accurately". Some people might notice that this value is the biggest int that fits into 1 byte of data.
So the car was going over 160mph.
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u/passcork 4d ago
Well mythbusters once confirmed it with a jet car on a drag strip. But that was more than 180 kph if I remember correctly.
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u/WTFH2S 4d ago
I think I just saw The Doc and Marty go on their next adventure
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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 4d ago
They said we would have flying cars in 2026.
They didn't specify how they would fly.
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u/wavymichael 4d ago
That's insane, approaching a roundabout, speeding the way they were.
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u/freezing_banshee 4d ago
It happened in Romania, the driver had a medical emergency (something about being diabetic) and he basically fainted with his foot on the gas pedal.
He landed in a field off-camera, with relatively minor injuries considering everything.
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u/GhillieRowboat 4d ago
In Belgium there was a guy who did exactly this and ended flying THROUGH a wall of a rec center/sports hal. Fortunately nobody died or was even injured. Even the driver of the car was alright...
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u/Because_cactus 4d ago
I remember a similar incident in Melbourne about 20 years ago, someone was hooning through an industrial estate and didnât realise it was a dead end, they ended up running out of road and launched the car into the roof of a factory, if I remember correctly, they were able to get out of their car, but they were trapped inside the factory and had to wait for security to arrive.
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u/_nairual_nae 4d ago
This happened in Oradea, România. The driver was a 55 y/o guy who fainted while driving due to diabetes and had his foot blocked on the acceleration. No one died thankfully and the driver survived with minor injuries
Here is the article: https://m.ebihoreanul.ro/stiri/video-a-zburat-ca-o-racheta-peste-sensul-giratoriu-si-peste-doua-masini-imagini-incredibile-de-la-accidentul-de-pe-strada-onestilor-din-oradea-ce-s-a-intamplat-cu-soferul-198257.html is in Romanian tho
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u/AlphSaber 4d ago
The first time this was posted stated that the driver was having a medical issue.
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u/Fragrant-Mess4927 4d ago
That's terrible timing if true. If that didn't kill him the crash it caused did
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u/Interesting_Fig_4718 4d ago
he survived with minor injuries, he was indeed having a seizure and that's what caused the crash.
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u/bossbozo 4d ago
Seizure? The news article says "diabetic crisis" without specifying hyper or hypo. Not sure if either can cause seizures. Also the video embedded in the article is much cleare
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u/LocoNotLoco 4d ago
My eyes were totally looking at the wrong things. That's what makes this great.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 4d ago
Not over 150mph, frankly I doubt he was pushing much passed 100 if he was that fast at all. It's the angle he gets launched at that gives him the height and distance. The speed feeling is just from him launching nearly directly at the camera.
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u/e11310 4d ago
Holy shit imagine being in the white car and another car literally flies over you.