I'd say both. Authorities should have closed it off (assuming it hadn't JUST happened within minutes before the video). The driver should have noticed it. The dash cam of the guy recording will damn him, because he saw it and stopped, proving it was visible.

 

I saw an act so stupid yesterday that I wish I had a dash camera as it’s hard for me to believe and I witnessed it. At a major intersection with a north-south street and the east-west cross street with two lanes in each direction and north-south traffic with a green light, a westbound Tesla 3 decided to play Frogger and slowly cross the intersection against a red light. They got to the middle northbound lane and stopped while two northbound cars in the left lane cautiously went by and the Tesla waited briefly in no man’s and and did the same across the southbound lanes. One southbound driver with a green light was a bit surprised, I imagine, to see a car perpendicular in the lane and they had to stop to avoid t-boning the Tesla. It was so egregiously stupid that I am inclined to think the Tesla driver was thumbing their nose at the police. It was like a CHiPs episode with nicer cars.

 

^^^ maybe it was using "full self driving" so the dumb driver was the car

 

Good point bit. Self driving already hates pedestrians as much as a Mustang driver on a wet road.

 

I actually did something that qualities for this thread, not actually dumb but fairly close.

My best friend and I bought a car for $300 of his girls mom in Cleveland, they were gonna scrap it due to needing a full exhaust due to cat thieves and cleaveland is an emissions test county. It was "dead" due to alternator failure so I swapped a new one on while my friend did oil and other basic checks like air/brakes/etc and we got it alive again.

Plan was to drive it back to my shop, fix it fully, and pass it off to our inner city friend to sell it on commission for us since he is really good at getting top price. When we did a quick test drive the rear passenger side tire had some "locational issues" and sounded like it was having a hard time staying attached, car at 40 mph felt like a RWD car on ice when the throttle floored.....

My best friend and I were COMMITTED to getting our new $300 2001 Camry with 215k miles to give us max profit margin however and drove it anyway. I was in the follow car he was in the death trap, it was a nerve wracking drive to say the least but we never had anything technically unsafe happen. Did 5-0 under the speed limit the whole way down etc. I however didn't realize how bad it really was as I only drove it AFTER we were back, I had him take it around the block in Cleveland before we left while I was repacking tools etc.

Thing is THE most dangerous feeling car I've ever driven, I was actually scared at 40 and this maniac was going 70 most of the way! Steering had legit 60-70 degrees of "play" and the rear end can walk what was the equal to 15-20* steering input at total random left or right and felt exactly like driving a power boat 80mph but with MASSIVE instability. Our inner city friend beat us to the shop and when we went on a test drive with him in it he was saying we were truly insane and that Justin was the most insane doctor he had ever met.

Turns out the wheel bearings were on their last legs and the brakes were holding the passenger rear rim on.....so yeah we drove a car that we probably should have just trailered. Thankfully nothing happened but man was I making jokes the whole time about taking an insurance policy on him with this girl lol!

Phone call we had running was almost 3 hours long since I was in constant communication with him and also cycled people into our group call, two of them asked if he was in a plane or helo because the thing was so loud. Justin was wearing his shooting ear pro since it was just insanely loud with no exhaust, debris in the blower motor, and crazy metal on metal hammering.

I'll have pictures of the death trap later. I'm off today I after that I do not want to be near it for a bit. It should still sell for 3k or so but my god I've never been this sketched out by a car before. It needs intake tube, final stage resistor, full exhaust, full service, rear wheel bearings, and brakes all around. $350 in parts and only 8 hours of my sanity. Justin is paying for the car and parts and I'm doing the rest. We both can't wait to get rid of it and never see it again, I'm fairly sure this has traumatized hm for Camrys going forward lol!

Im only partially taking blame for this since he ASSURED me it "only needs an alternator" and that it drove "well enough"

 

so a guy i know in florida, bought a mint 1985 911 a few years ago and kept it mint but didn't drive it much. eventually someone else in colorado offered to buy it off him and he figured might as well since he didn't drive it much.
buyer flew to florida to check out the car and buy it if all good. is practically peeing himself but still does due diligence, take to mechanic, etc. all good, money / title change hands. off goes the buyer in the 911 to drive it back to colorado.

seller gets a call later that day from a hospital. the buyer had driven the car a couple of miles and somehow driven under a semi and almost killed himself. car was totalled.
guy i know (seller) visited the buyer while he recovered before he could go home w/o the 911.

 

Wow! Not everybody should be driving high powered cars lol

 

Holy hell that's sad to hear he got hurt so bad in the 911, that sucks. The rear engine makes things get weird in a way unique to the 911 that punishes people who aren't used to it and snap off the throttle and brakes etc....

Thats one reason I'm trying to stop my dad from getting one since he has that ham fisted "snap on/off controls" style. Doesn't work well with those cars

 

i just edited my post when i remembered he said it was a mint 1985, not a new 911. of course back then 911's were MUCH more of a rear heavy handful to drive than today's 911's.
i also knew a guy who got an '87 because i believe that was the first year to have a hydraulic clutch. before that they were apparently a bear to shift.

 

Like maybe 50% of Mustang drivers LOL?

 

Omg that's so hard to drive one of those vs modern ones! Makes sense what happened then....still sucks but makes more sense at least.

 

Especially the Turbo, which actively wants to kill you.

 

This is a good one lol. Woman crashes her car into a house in front of witnesses and walks off, gets stopped by the cops and won’t admit she did that even though her car is crammed into the side of their house with her purse and all her stuff in it

I actually laughed out loud when she cried in the backseat of the police car lol. 4th DWI, unbelievable.

 

Yeah....she was obviously tanked up.

This may sound like a rant (and I'm good at ranting LOL)...but it never should have gotten to a 4th DWI. Too many judges and jurisdictions are WAY too lenient with DWIs, particularly with repeat-offenders. We had a guy some time ago in our condo-development who had six DWIs (he was married to one of the Board members)...and still wasn't locked up. Ludicrous.

The law needs to show some teeth. First conviction.....license suspension a minimum of 6 months. Second conviction.....license Revoked. Third conviction, and/or driving with a suspended/revoked license......prison term. Yes, alcohol can be addictive, but the thought of harsh consequences can also be an effective deterrent.

 

I think most people would agree, myself included.