Emergency Brake (Off Roading related)
10-22-20, 08:21 PM
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Emergency Brake (Off Roading related)
I read about this last week, video just came out yesterday, driver got out to spot someone and forgot to pull the e-brake, skip ahead to the 3:10 or so mark
10-23-20, 08:46 AM
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The guy in the Jeep recording that is super lucky he didn't wind up in the path of that falling Jeep...wow
10-23-20, 09:04 AM
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10-23-20, 09:07 AM
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10-23-20, 09:13 AM
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10-23-20, 09:18 AM
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I almost fast forwarded through the first part too lol
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10-24-20, 03:43 PM
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This is a horrible tragedy...my heart goes out the woman who was ejected and I hope she pulls through!
I did a fair amount of off-roading in my '77 FJ40 Landcrusher. It can be an extreme sport, depending on where you go and how you drive. In this case, it was dangerous even on relatively well-built trail because the driver didn't follow basic safety procedures.
It's easy to get sucked-into the romantic version of off-roading as seen on TV commercials, but in reality, it requires know-how, skills, and extreme vigilance in all manner, to do it safely. Maybe an off-road license is necessary so people get the training and skills they need to off-road without killing themselves or others in the process? Buying a Jeep alone, doesn't qualify one for this sport.
I did a fair amount of off-roading in my '77 FJ40 Landcrusher. It can be an extreme sport, depending on where you go and how you drive. In this case, it was dangerous even on relatively well-built trail because the driver didn't follow basic safety procedures.
It's easy to get sucked-into the romantic version of off-roading as seen on TV commercials, but in reality, it requires know-how, skills, and extreme vigilance in all manner, to do it safely. Maybe an off-road license is necessary so people get the training and skills they need to off-road without killing themselves or others in the process? Buying a Jeep alone, doesn't qualify one for this sport.
10-24-20, 04:03 PM
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It really does, it can be very technical, slow going, precise...
10-24-20, 06:34 PM
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I did a fair amount of off-roading in my '77 FJ40 Landcrusher. It can be an extreme sport, depending on where you go and how you drive. In this case, it was dangerous even on relatively well-built trail because the driver didn't follow basic safety procedures.
It's easy to get sucked-into the romantic version of off-roading as seen on TV commercials, but in reality, it requires know-how, skills, and extreme vigilance in all manner, to do it safely. Maybe an off-road license is necessary so people get the training and skills they need to off-road without killing themselves or others in the process? Buying a Jeep alone, doesn't qualify one for this sport.
10-24-20, 06:36 PM
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A lot of those areas do require special
permits and all, inspection of your vehicle and equipment etc.
permits and all, inspection of your vehicle and equipment etc.
10-24-20, 07:10 PM
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I don't want to get too far into political comments (and I hope the moderators don't consider this too political)....but, as I see it, we also deserve better than that in the U.S. It is one thing to have ultra-dangerous trails like that in Third-World mountain ranges like the Andes, Himalayas, Atlas Mountains of North Africa, the mountains of Western China, etc..... quite another in the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world. Not that I don't have sympathy for those who have to drive under those Third-World conditions (I do, very much)....but, with China one possible exception, those countries simply don't have the money or resources that we do to spend on road-design/maintenance.
Take closer to home, for instance, here in the Northeastern U.S. U.S. 30 (the old Lincoln Highway) and U.S. 40 (the old National Road, which was the first federally-funded road in the country), used to both be very steep and narrow across the Maryland and Pennsylvania portions of the Appalachians, with often sharp/hairpin curves and only rudimentary guard rails. Tuscarora Mountain and Sideling Hill on U.S. 30, and Sideling Hill, Polish Mountain, and the famous Uniontown/Summit-Mountain descent on U.S. 40 were both especially hairy stretches of road, until those areas were all gradually rebuilt from the 1930s to the 1950s to level them somewhat and take out the most hazardous curves......although the descent at Uniontown is still very long and steep, just with easier curves now.
Farther south, in WV, for a number of reasons, where you and your family drive, many of the worst East-West roads across the sharply mountainous Eastern half of the state (U.S. 50, 33, 60, 250, etc...) were never addressed or rebuilt, and one still has to drive over their snake-like mountain passes, today, almost like they did almost a century ago....only, today, the much more reliable engines don't overheat going up the grades.
Last edited by mmarshall; 10-24-20 at 07:19 PM.
10-24-20, 07:24 PM
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I don't want to get too far into political comments (and I hope the moderators don't consider this too political)....but, as I see it, we also deserve better than that in the U.S. It is one thing to have ultra-dangerous trails like that in Third-World mountain ranges like the Andes, Himalayas, Atlas Mountains of North Africa, the mountains of Western China, etc..... quite another in the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world. Not that I don't have sympathy for those who have to drive under those Third-World conditions (I do, very much)....but, with China one possible exception, those countries simply don't have the money or resources that we do to spend on road-design/maintenance.
Take closer to home, for instance, here in the Northeastern U.S. U.S. 30 (the old Lincoln Highway) and U.S. 40 (the old National Road, which was the first federally-funded road in the country), used to both be very steep and narrow across the Maryland and Pennsylvania portions of the Appalachians, with often sharp/hairpin curves and only rudimentary guard rails. Tuscarora Mountain and Sideling Hill on U.S. 30, and Sideling Hill, Polish Mountain, and the famous Uniontown/Summit-Mountain descent on U.S. 40 were both especially hairy stretches of road, until those areas were all gradually rebuilt from the 1930s to the 1950s to level them somewhat and take out the most hazardous curves......although the descent at Uniontown is still very long and steep, just with easier curves now.
Farther south, in WV, for a number of reasons, where you and your family drive, many of the worst East-West roads across the sharply mountainous Eastern half of the state (U.S. 50, 33, 60, 250, etc...) were never addressed or rebuilt, and one still has to drive over their snake-like mountain passes, today, almost like they did almost a century ago....only, today, the much more reliable engines don't overheat going up the grades.
Take closer to home, for instance, here in the Northeastern U.S. U.S. 30 (the old Lincoln Highway) and U.S. 40 (the old National Road, which was the first federally-funded road in the country), used to both be very steep and narrow across the Maryland and Pennsylvania portions of the Appalachians, with often sharp/hairpin curves and only rudimentary guard rails. Tuscarora Mountain and Sideling Hill on U.S. 30, and Sideling Hill, Polish Mountain, and the famous Uniontown/Summit-Mountain descent on U.S. 40 were both especially hairy stretches of road, until those areas were all gradually rebuilt from the 1930s to the 1950s to level them somewhat and take out the most hazardous curves......although the descent at Uniontown is still very long and steep, just with easier curves now.
Farther south, in WV, for a number of reasons, where you and your family drive, many of the worst East-West roads across the sharply mountainous Eastern half of the state (U.S. 50, 33, 60, 250, etc...) were never addressed or rebuilt, and one still has to drive over their snake-like mountain passes, today, almost like they did almost a century ago....only, today, the much more reliable engines don't overheat going up the grades.