That was a BMW M440i (i recognize the wheels, color and slope of the back). It has a 386hp/398lb-ft turbocharged inline 6 with a mild hybrid system. BMW says it can do 0-60 in 4.3s, but independent tests have shown it can do 3.9-4.1s
Most likely this idiot used launch control in the parking structure wanting to show off and lost control, eating the pillar
It can do 60-0 even faster.
Yeah, I saw some assuming he was drunk but it is just as likely that this guy made a split second decision and jumped on it thinking what could go wrong I’ve done it before and poof.
People don’t like to view vehicles as murder machines but they very much are. If raising the front end 40% increases the chance of death by 40% to pedestrians and the only benefis were “I like the way it looks” or in this case the car being designed to accelerate at speeds that arent comfortable or safe because “I think it can be fun sometimes” at the detriment of others is just poorly planned.
Sure the guy is at fault, but so is the company that manufactured it, and the government bodies that allowed it on public roads.
If someone wants to have a hobby playing with and racing cars, that’s fine; but they don’t belong in public areas.
I love it when people know things
Must be why you left reddit. 😏
launch control
Today I Learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_control_(automotive)
Why would this even be present in a street legal vehicle?
Money.
I sometimes wonder why the US even has a government.
It did, once.
Before the dark times.
Before the Empire.
1491
An artifact of more sensible times. Besides, without it how would we even know who our glorious leader was?
🙄🥺
Support column built by the same company that makes telephone poles for GTA
I hadn’t played since it came out really and played some for the first time again last month. My dedecution has been if it’s metal, you can plow through it, if it’s wood it’ll plow through you.
And then all the sudden a few objects will defy these assumptions and you wind up driving through a fence and find a metal rod turning you into a pretzel.
The Americans should build their houses like this column, instead out of paper mache.
They have a hard time even affording the cheap paper mache shit they make them out of now.
I can’t imagine how much more eye watering the price would be if they were made like this.
It is amazing how fast this car must have accelerated in this rather limited space to make an accident like this.
It was some jackass doing laps in the parking garage. The cringe boy racer kids do this shit because if it’s not on the street then they can’t catch charges beyond trespassing.
Absolutely amazing how intact the cabin is. Modern car safety is phenomenal.
Back in my day, cars killed their inattentive drunk drivers. Now, they just kill innocent children.
the reason i’m a proponent of the adaptive cruise control systems is that i was very, very nearly in a 30 car pileup on the Grapevine (if you don’t know the stretch of road, I-5 north of LA, south of bakersfield. very mountainy and curvy, there’s always a fire or an accident when i drive by four times a year). It was foggy and the ACC saw the car ahead of me before I did, let us stop before hitting it and making it a 32 car pileup.
When I was growing up (80s and 90s) that size accident would have multiple fatalities. Only one person had to go to the hospital, and she was pregnant. They wanted to check on the baby. Everyone else just had light bruising/abrasions.
Modern cars seem like a miracle compared to what i started driving.
“Innocent children”? Do you have children? Because mine are assholes whose only purpose is to constantly terrorize me and keep me poor. 🤣
… So you’d be ok with them getting run over and killed? Lmao
Depends on the life insurance, I think? 🤔
You can’t park there mate.
Someone watched Tokyo Drift too many times growing up
shit. hit the pole at 50?
Mach 50 I think
Looks more like 80+. That damage is WILD.
Yeah I was trying to estimate partly on the apparent size of the garage. It’s been a while since I drove a car that could take off if you didn’t pay attention
You can’t park there, mate
Marvel heroes:We did it! We saved the city!
The city:
The city: (is still alive and also isn’t having its brains being used as biological CPUs powered by Soylent Green)
Well at least the old dipshit looks appropriately miserable. I give even odds on his insurance dropping him after this shit.
Has some light cosmetic work but low miles and drives great!
No lowball offers!! I know what I got!
I know it’s a parking garage and all, but you can’t park there mate.
Crossposted to /c/youcantparktheremate
The old shithead, leaning on the rear tire, is lucky his fuck-up did not start a fire. Revoke his driver’s license permanently.
Because everyone knows cars won’t start unless you have a valid license right?
That day is probably coming, where you tap your license to start the car.
Very true - because taking away his license wouldn’t physically prevent him from operating a vehicle, we shouldn’t do it at all. Because incremental progress is for losers.
when the police revoked my MIL’s license in front of us, i’ll be honest i’ve never been more thankful for police. She knew she was a menace on the road and enjoyed it.
That pole is incredible
That’s what she said
Thank you very much.
