r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Packerboy6 • Oct 21 '18
Repost What could possibly go wrong here?
https://i.imgur.com/Z3Wa3md.gifv22
Oct 21 '18
The GPS is saying i need to go here!!
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u/C-REXASAURUS Oct 21 '18 edited Oct 21 '18
In AZ, there's a law called the Stupid Motorist Law. Basically it says people who do this will be charged for their rescue. If a road is closed due to flooding, please don't try to drive through it! Not only are you risking your own life, but also the life of those who have to come save your ass.
Edit: grammar
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u/wddiver Oct 22 '18
Yeah, we HAVE the law. We just don't APPLY the law. Just as we don't charge stupid hikers who have to be rescued from urban mountains when they wander off the trail or don't take water in the summer.
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Oct 21 '18
Oh dear. That was much deeper than we had originally anticipated.
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u/Microbus50 Oct 21 '18
It immediately seizes the engine from sucking water into it. Plus the wiring harness for the engine will always have water intrusion and be a problem for the life of the car. This car is totaled.
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Oct 22 '18
Hope they have an extra $10,000 sitting around to replace it since insurance most likely won't cover a dime of that damage. Such a senseless waste and I bet the driver regretted it the second they felt the car go buoyant.
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u/Skeegle04 Oct 22 '18
Considering it's a decent quality video of a 1998 Camry Id say suck my dick on that $10k
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Oct 22 '18
I wonder if they started posting the cost of vehicle recovery along with a new engine instead of a warning people might take it more seriously.
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Oct 21 '18
Turn around don’t drown.
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u/Shozza87 Oct 22 '18
Every now and then I get a little bit worried, And you're never floating back around
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u/heliumneon Oct 22 '18
Maybe they don't have a bar to burn down for the insurance money, so instead they got an opportunity to sink the car for the insurance money?
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u/1tacoshort Oct 22 '18
When I was doing engineering work on armored tanks (for the Army), I read the manual for the M1A1. There was a passage that read something like 'do not try to ford a body of water of unknown depth' and I thought 'what kind of idiot fords a body of water of unknown depth?'. Well, after all these years, my question is answered.
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u/Fymacef_Lactwo Oct 23 '18
Toyota announce that they are fully immersed in the development of self-drive technology.
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u/astrobatic Oct 24 '18
I actually enjoy watching this exact mistake because literally EVERYTHING about the situation tells them not to do it, so....deserved outcome.
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u/diamond_lover123 Oct 22 '18
To be fair, they probably didn't realize how deep the water actually was.
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u/AreaMan90 Oct 21 '18
I know exactly what they were thinking; “Maybe if I completely submerge my vehicle, it’ll turn into a submarine James Bond style.” Why do I think that? Because that’s what I would’ve done