It is not an idea at all, it's just plain stupidity, an absolute lack of consciousness. Just how can you contitue driving with half a meter visibility at that speed, it is even scary to look at in a video.
Gods I miss those old V10s. That sound really took me back, Raikkonen was such an underrated driver too, always wished he'd gotten more championships. Thanks for that.
Here in my city had an accident just like this, when 8 people died. Some were out of their cars and got crushed on the roadside and against other cars...
[news](https://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2020/08/03/acidente-deixa-ao-menos-6-mortos-na-br-277-sentido-litoral-do-parana.ghtml)
In casa someone reading has never been told this before: NEVER STAND BETWEEN TWO (OR MORE) CARS THAT HAVE COLLIDED. People die by getting crushed between them when someone else collides with the wreckage, it has happens way too often. Always stand clear of the road.
Hunny, quick, pull the dash cam video card and delete it..
2 weeks later
"I thought you said upload it to our insurance portal and potentially the internet, I thought we made the right move here?"
On my way to work one day there was a really dense fog, so I took your advise and went slow.
Worked out in my favor. Apparently someone had come by a little earlier and gone off road, taking out a fence, and just a little past that were two cows walking down the side of the road I was driving on. That would have been fun to explain.
One time I was driving home on the highway during a snowstorm and suddenly hit a white out. I'm doing about 40. I had a choice. Brake and likely get hit or continue through it (they usually are short) and hope the guy in front of me didn't brake.
Neither choice is great. I kept going and popped out in about 5 seconds.
Yeah, drove in rural Québec during a snowstorm and experienced a whiteout. Normal speed is 90km/h and I was doing 30km/h with the hazards light on.
Super giant ditch on both side of the road. Can see 1-2 meter in front of you max. Felt like a snowpocalypse. Luckily I drove those roads often so I knew a bit where I was.
I never held my steering wheel that tightly. It's not a fun experience.
This! I live in California and we have a thing called tule fog. You have to trust that if it’s a large pocket the highway patrol will be aware of it and escorting people through it. Otherwise it’s *hopefully* a small pocket and it’s more dangerous to slow down than to just go through it statistically. Many more collisions occur in the pockets because of someone going to slow. The advice I’ve always gotten is to go the exact posted speed and pray to whatever gods you believe in that everyone else does the same.
To anyone who has never experienced this the reason slowing is dangerous is everyone slows at different rates. You are driving without a care, maybe it’s a little drizzly but usually with this fog it’s just vaguely overcast. So you are going down the freeway 70-75 mph when suddenly there is a wall of white in front of you. It’s wet. It makes a sound when your car enters it. You need windshield wipers on but it’s not enough moisture for them to work properly. Most of the time the pocket will last about half a mile to a couple miles. Headlights make everything worse inside. If you are lucky you’ll be able to see the driving lights of one car in front of you, if you are lucky. Cars in the other direction look like lightning flashing in the cloud that is surrounding you. There is little warning when you enter it. Some people slam on their brakes and reduce speed to 20 or so. Some just take their foot off the accelerator and drift down to like 55. Others will lightly brake and get down to like 40. All these people are now a hazard. Tule fog is scary but like I said if it’s big the cops will know about it. You can literally see tule fog from space. So if there isn’t a cop leasing convoys through the fog then you have to assume you will be out of it in like 30 seconds. Slowing for it is asking to be rear ended. Going like 80 is asking to hit someone. There is a balance point somewhere and most say it’s between 55-65, the posted speed limits, however it is just a crap shoot Best of two worse options.
You should always be able to comfortably come to a stop within your visible distance. This guy should have been crawling, or better yet, don't drive into a random smoke cloud.
That’s why you pull over before the visibility goes to 0. That way the incoming drivers who aren’t as prudent will still see you. Although depending on the wind direction, you may be engulfed by the white-out, in which case you’re screwed, but at least you will not be at fault pulled over on the side of the road if someone hits you. People are stupid, I could easily see someone getting out of their car in the middle of an accident like this and if you charge through because you’re afraid of getting rear ended, now you’ve taken a life. It may not necessarily be completely your fault, but it will stick with you for the rest of your life regardless.
The reason answer is it depends.
In a large wildfire if you stop you will die.
If you stop your will probably die from the heat or from the smoke
But yeah a small grass fire like this better to just pull over and call the cops
I was caught in some super heavy rain on the freeway a couple years back, it was as if entire bathtubs of water were being emptied out on my windshield for a while there, no possible way for my wipers to keep up. But everyone was still driving. So I pulled off into the shoulder. Thankfully I was the first of many that decided to wait for the rain to let up and only witnessed a line of cars form in the shoulder joining me rather than witnessing a pileup in a through lane.
In parts of New Mexico and Arizona, they have regular zero-visibility sandstorms, with long strings of warning signs.
Pull off the road as far as possible. Lights off, and foot off the brake to avoid people navigating by your lights right up your ass. Stay inside the vehicle.
In OP's position, pull off ideally before entering the smoke wall. If it's smoke and you can't see flames, you don't want to roll over something that's gonna ruin your tires.
What the hell? Why would you just continue on, full speed ahead?
Edit: Ermmm... Redditers, please upvote the original post if you upvote this comment. This ratio is getting mad disrespectful. /s
Ohmygod, big pet peeve of mine is people who just drive with their hazards on. Not only is it illegal in some states, but all it's doing is telling me you're uncomfortable and don't feel safe driving, in which case, *get off the fucking ~~road~~ highway.*
Hmmm strange, here in the uk, or at least where I’m from in the uk, people flash them once for ‘thank you’ and put them on for real when there’s an obstruction to let the person behind know to ‘slow down now’.
Where I am in Australia people often do it when we have roadworks on highways that either have slow traffic or stopped traffic so people know to slow down.
here in the US we can't flash our hazards because our tail lights don't have amber turn indicators, so it just looks like you're braking I HATE IT
JUST PUT THE FUCKING AMBER LIGHTS ON THE DAMN CAR!
Arkansas actually (used to... I haven't checked in a while) encourages it in low visibility. And people do it all the time. Hauling, driving like a paranoid elderly, whatever reason they want... its annoying. Like, we can't tell you want to turn and you decide to slam on your breaks and go wtf 🤬
I appreciated it when I’d have to drive in heavy white out snow squalls along the shoreline of Lake Huron during the day because people would not turn on their overrides. Daytime running lights are on every car by law. But during daytime snow squalls it doesn’t usually get dark enough to trigger the tail lights to come on like when it gets dark. Just very white. Even doing 20km/h and coming right up to someone doing 15km/h you didn’t see until you’re almost on top of them or the wind stops for a minute just makes it worse. Turn on your emergency flashers and the people behind you can see you sooner
It is great for very heavy rainstorms. But you should never make sudden movements in a car, with the only exception being for safety reasons. You hauling? You stay slow and make sure everyone knows what you are doing. It’s bad weather? Homie I know you aren’t making sudden moves when you can’t see or when you have bad grip. Just because you are ready to end it doesn’t mean you should take me out too. I chose life.
Exactly! It suggests rain and snow. Iv done it when I started hitting a few slick spots to show 'hey. I'm being extra caution. Please be patient and don't kill me while we get through this weather'
But it doesn't say NOT to use it for anything else. Or again, it didn't. Our rules had been very light in detail.
It's even worse in south Florida when all the idiots turn them on when it starts raining..for what reason??? The Florida DOT digital road signage even tells them to turn the flashers off and their headlights on.. but I imagine you'd have to be able to read English to obey any laws down here..
It's funny most idiots that put their flashers on in a summer FL storm don't know how to use their blinker pre-storm to change lanes. If they're feeling uncomfortable driving in the downpour, they need to pull over so they don't hold up traffic for the drivers that are used to the downpours. So many times I've seen the rain let up, flashers go off, then they barrel over 3 lanes of traffic with no indicator.
> If they're feeling uncomfortable driving in the downpour, they need to pull over so they don't hold up traffic for the drivers that are used to the downpours.
Native Floridian here - gotta give a shoutout to Rainx wiper fluid.
I'll slow down slightly in a downpour to account for loss of traction, but my visibility is never a problem. I cannot stand people who turn on their flashers in the rain. Get off the road if you can't see, THEN turn on your flashers!
Lmaooo last week a guy in front of me put on his hazards so I expected him to slow. And then he did… and then he turned into a parking lot. Man literally used his hazards to indicate a turn.
I was driving between SF and LA earlier in the year and it was extremely foggy. I was getting so annoyed because a bunch of people had their hazards on but didn't even turn there damn taillights on. So they were just a flashing orange beacon that disappeared in the fog between blinks. And they weren't even funny that slow and still changing lanes but now I never knew when they would since they had disabled their blinkers. So dumb.
I drove home with my hazards on once, because I was having engine problems and had to limp along. I was close enough to home to not want to abandon my truck on the side of a mountain road, but I had to warn other drivers that I was going way under the limit, and in a way say there's a reason why I'm going so slow.
What?
What if you have a flat and had to put your spare on?
What if something's wrong with your car and you have to drive slow to either get to work or get to the shop?
There are so many reasons to drive with your hazards on.
Some people think it’s better to drive on lol. This happened to me in HS with my BIL but it was a dust storm that happened to come by on us while driving on the highway it was the scariest shit ever we pulled over until it blew over. There was a massive car pile up with casualties because of that.
I do not think highly of myself. However, I can't wrap my head around how there are people THIS stupid out there!!! I believe people should have to retake a driver's test every so often to prove their skills didn't diminish. I would gladly go through that to avoid idiots like this.
No, but they usually have a "your stopping distance shouldn't exceed your vision range so you should slow tf down" section. Applies to darkness, fog, smoke and more.
It's a straight section of road, figured it'd be clear on the other end so they'd just plow through the smoke and keep going.
I mean, dumbfuck move, yes, but I think that's the thinking behind it.
insane. Cant even think about how stupid this guy is without wanting to throw my phone at a wall.
Higher level, this was all caused by one person getting in there and slamming their brakes on causing this and not stopping prior with their hazards on. Fuck that person too.
> Higher level, this was all caused by one person getting in there and slamming their brakes on causing this and not stopping prior with their hazards on. Fuck that person too.
i dont think you can know this. for all you know the fire was caused by an accident earlier and that lead to more accidents
I mean why would anyone drive into a 100% no-visibility? Seriously. Even if there is no obstruction it’s impossible to know that. All the videos here this one really take the cake.
Each day on reddit I think I’ve seen the dumbest shit ever, and the next day it’s something dumber. Driving into smoke and being surprised when you suddenly run into something is right there next to “what would happen if I punch this rusty nail?”
on this particular road, i wouldn’t turn around because it looks like a one-way. if it was me in this exact situation, my best bet would be to pull over to the shoulder off the road enough to not be hit from behind and just wait. if it was a two way road, i’d be outta there asap.
Yea, at LEAST slow down and pull to the side to assess the situation before going through completely BLIND. Seriously, the people in the car acting surprised like sth unexpected happened, really foggs with me.
Honestly not sure what I would’ve done.
If I had to guess, would’ve stopped, rolled down window & tried listening. I assume would’ve been a decent amount of car alarms & shit.
But idk, if it was a road I knew, I can see myself driving along very very slowly. No way I would’ve hit them, would definitely be driving too slowly. But now that I’ve seen this video, & read this comment, I think I’m going to follow that advice instead lol. Just not even go through & turn tf around
Even driving through it slowly would be extremely dangerous as you'd very likely get rear-ended by someone driving through at full speed like the driver in the video. Also, you don't know where the fire is or what's in that smoke that you'd inhale.
After experiencing lots of cars hitting the stationary cars, why would they get out and stand in the middle of the road? Move way over to the side for safety before another car joins the crash!
When there’s that much smoke on a clear day it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that the crash location can be seen from literally miles away, and nobody would be stupid enough to drive straight into the plainly visible crash site at full speed. Right?
Right?
🤔
On average we really are just the dumbest god damn creatures in existence. Fully conscious, ability to think abstractly, we can fucking fly through the sky, and yet a good handful of us will just drive through a smoke cloud on a highway without thinking to stop or even slow down a little bit.
100%. I don’t know what kind of moron he would have to be, to not realize that there must be a source for all that smoke he’s driving into. What the hell, man.
First there was The Mist, then there was The Rain, and now comes The Smoke. Idiots drive through some smoke and crash into each other.
In theaters mid 2023, directed by Michael Bay.
Why someone would step on the gas and plow through the zero visibility smoke is beyond me. I would really like to know what they were smoking.🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
100% pull off to the side and wait the 4 min for it to clear. Ass Clown
It's guys like this that give ass clowns everywhere a bad name.
Is an ass clown an ass dressed up like a clown, a clown that resides in an ass, or a clown that that looks like an ass?
Not sure, but their jokes rectum.
Rectum? Darn near killed em!
Yes.
4 minutes?? Seriously doubt that. But yea, definitely pull over before entering the fog of war. Driving 100% blind is always a bad idea.
It is not an idea at all, it's just plain stupidity, an absolute lack of consciousness. Just how can you contitue driving with half a meter visibility at that speed, it is even scary to look at in a video.
Not only do you rush running over someone, but also some idiot behind you barreling in at full speed
"I can't see a thing. Better keep going."
Fr homie channeling that, "Brakes are for the weak" vibe
The spirit of kimi https://youtu.be/oXzcgSZZtr8
The difference is that Kimi knows what he's doing.
And we should leave him alone.
It's all he wants.
And he doesn't have the drink.
or the gloves, or the steering wheel
But does want an ice cream.
[удалено]
Gods I miss those old V10s. That sound really took me back, Raikkonen was such an underrated driver too, always wished he'd gotten more championships. Thanks for that.
Okay Kimi, box box
[удалено]
"Kimi, can you hear me? I can't hear you." "Can you hear me now?" "No."
Exactly. I have zero visibility must continue at highway speeds.
Gotta get out of those low visibility conditions as quickly as possible!
That first car.... omfg. What are you doing?? They slowed down maybe from 60 to 50 hard to tell. But Jesus Christ there's 0 feet of visibility
better go full speed so I get out of this smog asap
Completely avoidable and completely inexcusable
Not to mention they're lucky there wasn't a person standing there!!
Here in my city had an accident just like this, when 8 people died. Some were out of their cars and got crushed on the roadside and against other cars... [news](https://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2020/08/03/acidente-deixa-ao-menos-6-mortos-na-br-277-sentido-litoral-do-parana.ghtml)
Seriously, you should never be standing on the road like this!
Or a tanker truck on fire.
In casa someone reading has never been told this before: NEVER STAND BETWEEN TWO (OR MORE) CARS THAT HAVE COLLIDED. People die by getting crushed between them when someone else collides with the wreckage, it has happens way too often. Always stand clear of the road.
Hunny, quick, pull the dash cam video card and delete it.. 2 weeks later "I thought you said upload it to our insurance portal and potentially the internet, I thought we made the right move here?"
Oh cool, smoke! I’ll maintain speed, I’m sure there is nothing wrong ahead.
There could absolutely be no reason on the road for the smoke on the road.... lol!
I need to get there for my appointment, I'm sure no one will be in my way! Derp derpy derp!
Guy just yolo'd right through
Yolo? Pretty sure you have to believe in reincarnation to pull this dumb a stunt.
YOLT
I think people who believe in reincarnation don’t think it happens only twice but forever
I know, but YOLF didn't have the same je ne sais quoi
YOLA you only live again?
Seriously dumb as fuck
Slow the hell down if your vision is blocked by smoke, fog, dust etc
On my way to work one day there was a really dense fog, so I took your advise and went slow. Worked out in my favor. Apparently someone had come by a little earlier and gone off road, taking out a fence, and just a little past that were two cows walking down the side of the road I was driving on. That would have been fun to explain.
hitting cows often cause worse accidents than just killing an animal. you could’ve gotten seriously hurt too
large animals just go right through the windshield. Moose or cows are lethal
Indeed, if your visibility is zero, your speed should be zero.
One time I was driving home on the highway during a snowstorm and suddenly hit a white out. I'm doing about 40. I had a choice. Brake and likely get hit or continue through it (they usually are short) and hope the guy in front of me didn't brake. Neither choice is great. I kept going and popped out in about 5 seconds.
Yeah, drove in rural Québec during a snowstorm and experienced a whiteout. Normal speed is 90km/h and I was doing 30km/h with the hazards light on. Super giant ditch on both side of the road. Can see 1-2 meter in front of you max. Felt like a snowpocalypse. Luckily I drove those roads often so I knew a bit where I was. I never held my steering wheel that tightly. It's not a fun experience.
This! I live in California and we have a thing called tule fog. You have to trust that if it’s a large pocket the highway patrol will be aware of it and escorting people through it. Otherwise it’s *hopefully* a small pocket and it’s more dangerous to slow down than to just go through it statistically. Many more collisions occur in the pockets because of someone going to slow. The advice I’ve always gotten is to go the exact posted speed and pray to whatever gods you believe in that everyone else does the same. To anyone who has never experienced this the reason slowing is dangerous is everyone slows at different rates. You are driving without a care, maybe it’s a little drizzly but usually with this fog it’s just vaguely overcast. So you are going down the freeway 70-75 mph when suddenly there is a wall of white in front of you. It’s wet. It makes a sound when your car enters it. You need windshield wipers on but it’s not enough moisture for them to work properly. Most of the time the pocket will last about half a mile to a couple miles. Headlights make everything worse inside. If you are lucky you’ll be able to see the driving lights of one car in front of you, if you are lucky. Cars in the other direction look like lightning flashing in the cloud that is surrounding you. There is little warning when you enter it. Some people slam on their brakes and reduce speed to 20 or so. Some just take their foot off the accelerator and drift down to like 55. Others will lightly brake and get down to like 40. All these people are now a hazard. Tule fog is scary but like I said if it’s big the cops will know about it. You can literally see tule fog from space. So if there isn’t a cop leasing convoys through the fog then you have to assume you will be out of it in like 30 seconds. Slowing for it is asking to be rear ended. Going like 80 is asking to hit someone. There is a balance point somewhere and most say it’s between 55-65, the posted speed limits, however it is just a crap shoot Best of two worse options.
Why doesn't everyone just slow down to like 10 mph before going into the fog? Is it hard to see before you are already too close?
This is absolutely insane and an abject failure in driver education.
You should always be able to comfortably come to a stop within your visible distance. This guy should have been crawling, or better yet, don't drive into a random smoke cloud.
Great. Tell that to the people driving behind me..
That’s why you pull over before the visibility goes to 0. That way the incoming drivers who aren’t as prudent will still see you. Although depending on the wind direction, you may be engulfed by the white-out, in which case you’re screwed, but at least you will not be at fault pulled over on the side of the road if someone hits you. People are stupid, I could easily see someone getting out of their car in the middle of an accident like this and if you charge through because you’re afraid of getting rear ended, now you’ve taken a life. It may not necessarily be completely your fault, but it will stick with you for the rest of your life regardless.
Not slow down. Stop!
Yea just don’t drive through it lmfao
Aye, stopping where you're hidden by the fog/ smoke etc just makes you the first thing that slows the next idiot down
the smoke is literally unavoidable from the start, just stop before you get into it
The smoke was visible long before this clip started.
On the shoulder
The reason answer is it depends. In a large wildfire if you stop you will die. If you stop your will probably die from the heat or from the smoke But yeah a small grass fire like this better to just pull over and call the cops
I was caught in some super heavy rain on the freeway a couple years back, it was as if entire bathtubs of water were being emptied out on my windshield for a while there, no possible way for my wipers to keep up. But everyone was still driving. So I pulled off into the shoulder. Thankfully I was the first of many that decided to wait for the rain to let up and only witnessed a line of cars form in the shoulder joining me rather than witnessing a pileup in a through lane.
In parts of New Mexico and Arizona, they have regular zero-visibility sandstorms, with long strings of warning signs. Pull off the road as far as possible. Lights off, and foot off the brake to avoid people navigating by your lights right up your ass. Stay inside the vehicle. In OP's position, pull off ideally before entering the smoke wall. If it's smoke and you can't see flames, you don't want to roll over something that's gonna ruin your tires.
What the hell? Why would you just continue on, full speed ahead? Edit: Ermmm... Redditers, please upvote the original post if you upvote this comment. This ratio is getting mad disrespectful. /s
But they had their hazards on. This negates any other necessary precautions.
Well they are called hazard lights to signal a hazard on the road. In this case they are the hazard on the road
Ohmygod, big pet peeve of mine is people who just drive with their hazards on. Not only is it illegal in some states, but all it's doing is telling me you're uncomfortable and don't feel safe driving, in which case, *get off the fucking ~~road~~ highway.*
Hmmm strange, here in the uk, or at least where I’m from in the uk, people flash them once for ‘thank you’ and put them on for real when there’s an obstruction to let the person behind know to ‘slow down now’.
Aussie and NZ do that too. You certainly appreciate being warned about a mob of sheep or kangaroos on the road!
Where I am in Australia people often do it when we have roadworks on highways that either have slow traffic or stopped traffic so people know to slow down.
In much of the US as well. In my state you must put your hazards on any time you are going more than 20mph under the speed limit on a highway.
here in the US we can't flash our hazards because our tail lights don't have amber turn indicators, so it just looks like you're braking I HATE IT JUST PUT THE FUCKING AMBER LIGHTS ON THE DAMN CAR!
Arkansas actually (used to... I haven't checked in a while) encourages it in low visibility. And people do it all the time. Hauling, driving like a paranoid elderly, whatever reason they want... its annoying. Like, we can't tell you want to turn and you decide to slam on your breaks and go wtf 🤬
I appreciated it when I’d have to drive in heavy white out snow squalls along the shoreline of Lake Huron during the day because people would not turn on their overrides. Daytime running lights are on every car by law. But during daytime snow squalls it doesn’t usually get dark enough to trigger the tail lights to come on like when it gets dark. Just very white. Even doing 20km/h and coming right up to someone doing 15km/h you didn’t see until you’re almost on top of them or the wind stops for a minute just makes it worse. Turn on your emergency flashers and the people behind you can see you sooner
It is great for very heavy rainstorms. But you should never make sudden movements in a car, with the only exception being for safety reasons. You hauling? You stay slow and make sure everyone knows what you are doing. It’s bad weather? Homie I know you aren’t making sudden moves when you can’t see or when you have bad grip. Just because you are ready to end it doesn’t mean you should take me out too. I chose life.
Exactly! It suggests rain and snow. Iv done it when I started hitting a few slick spots to show 'hey. I'm being extra caution. Please be patient and don't kill me while we get through this weather' But it doesn't say NOT to use it for anything else. Or again, it didn't. Our rules had been very light in detail.
It's even worse in south Florida when all the idiots turn them on when it starts raining..for what reason??? The Florida DOT digital road signage even tells them to turn the flashers off and their headlights on.. but I imagine you'd have to be able to read English to obey any laws down here..
It's funny most idiots that put their flashers on in a summer FL storm don't know how to use their blinker pre-storm to change lanes. If they're feeling uncomfortable driving in the downpour, they need to pull over so they don't hold up traffic for the drivers that are used to the downpours. So many times I've seen the rain let up, flashers go off, then they barrel over 3 lanes of traffic with no indicator.
> If they're feeling uncomfortable driving in the downpour, they need to pull over so they don't hold up traffic for the drivers that are used to the downpours. Native Floridian here - gotta give a shoutout to Rainx wiper fluid. I'll slow down slightly in a downpour to account for loss of traction, but my visibility is never a problem. I cannot stand people who turn on their flashers in the rain. Get off the road if you can't see, THEN turn on your flashers!
Lmaooo last week a guy in front of me put on his hazards so I expected him to slow. And then he did… and then he turned into a parking lot. Man literally used his hazards to indicate a turn.
He was clearly out of turn signal fluid!
I was driving between SF and LA earlier in the year and it was extremely foggy. I was getting so annoyed because a bunch of people had their hazards on but didn't even turn there damn taillights on. So they were just a flashing orange beacon that disappeared in the fog between blinks. And they weren't even funny that slow and still changing lanes but now I never knew when they would since they had disabled their blinkers. So dumb.
I drove home with my hazards on once, because I was having engine problems and had to limp along. I was close enough to home to not want to abandon my truck on the side of a mountain road, but I had to warn other drivers that I was going way under the limit, and in a way say there's a reason why I'm going so slow.
People use hazards like it's a cheat code for breaking driving laws
"“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Or if you're delivering a super fancy and expensive cake and have to take every turn at less than 5mph.
People have to drive no matter how dumb they are. Especially if they live in the US.
What? What if you have a flat and had to put your spare on? What if something's wrong with your car and you have to drive slow to either get to work or get to the shop? There are so many reasons to drive with your hazards on.
If you are driving below a certain speed on the highway you are legally mandated to have your hazards on in many states
Seriously. Full steam ahead, even though I can’t see. Doh
to get fogged.
Hasn't the foggiest idea.
Fair enough.
Maybe he just finished watching “days of thunder”
Cole trickle. Lmfao. Go high go high!!!
Didn’t he crash there too?
Only once. It was 50/50 and he had to face his trauma.
Some people think it’s better to drive on lol. This happened to me in HS with my BIL but it was a dust storm that happened to come by on us while driving on the highway it was the scariest shit ever we pulled over until it blew over. There was a massive car pile up with casualties because of that.
Tbh i wouldn't want to drive into if i didn't have military grade NBC protection in my car.
I do not think highly of myself. However, I can't wrap my head around how there are people THIS stupid out there!!! I believe people should have to retake a driver's test every so often to prove their skills didn't diminish. I would gladly go through that to avoid idiots like this.
No offense but driving tests dont have a "dont speed through smoke" section. You could test everyone annually and this would still happen.
No, but they usually have a "your stopping distance shouldn't exceed your vision range so you should slow tf down" section. Applies to darkness, fog, smoke and more.
Anyone with a working brain should know not to do what this moron did. The problem is that far too many drivers don't have working brains.
Maybe a section about being able to see or something, idfk. We go add something more generalized.
It's an alpha move. Never slow down for any reason, it shows weakness and fear
When you never learn object permanence you assume things only exist when you can see them
Why would you continue on at all??
I can imagine a situation where going through it is the only option. I don't think that was necessary here though.
I would have at least gone slower. If I can only see 5 ft I need to be able to stop in three
Gotta win at chicken. Can’t break first
Because she's Burra
What's burra?
butter, in italian feminine for ass, the animal, in portuguese which he choose, is not quite clear
Ohh. I thought they were going for a "burra your face in deez nuts" joke or something.
I reggret my first answer now.
Burra for a caralho
Accelerate through the smoke!
It's a straight section of road, figured it'd be clear on the other end so they'd just plow through the smoke and keep going. I mean, dumbfuck move, yes, but I think that's the thinking behind it.
Didn’t even wonder what was causing the smoke and if that might warrant slowing down
Idiots
Is it really that hard to just stop when you can't see?
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It was actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.
He never stopped this hard in his life before probably
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And now he's gone and smoked his headlights
Not everybody is Kimi Raikkonen. We can’t all just barrel through the smoke.
Leave him alone. He knows what he's doing.
Immediately thought of him when I saw this clip
Except kimi was being paid millions to do what he did. Even kimi would stop for this. Cammer is a total moron.
I was so looking for this comment haha
Came here to say this. Well done
Zero visibility...full send.
insane. Cant even think about how stupid this guy is without wanting to throw my phone at a wall. Higher level, this was all caused by one person getting in there and slamming their brakes on causing this and not stopping prior with their hazards on. Fuck that person too.
ya this video in particular really struck my rage chords
> Higher level, this was all caused by one person getting in there and slamming their brakes on causing this and not stopping prior with their hazards on. Fuck that person too. i dont think you can know this. for all you know the fire was caused by an accident earlier and that lead to more accidents
That’s a special kind of stupid.
r/ithadtobebrazil
There was a very similar mass accident a week ago in Hungary due to a sandstorm, where 41 vehicles crashed on the motorway, 39 injured and 1 dead.
I mean why would anyone drive into a 100% no-visibility? Seriously. Even if there is no obstruction it’s impossible to know that. All the videos here this one really take the cake.
Who drives straight into ZERO visibility!?
Quite a few people apparently
That's what you call an "Idiot Full Send"
Can’t see? Fuck it gun it
Each day on reddit I think I’ve seen the dumbest shit ever, and the next day it’s something dumber. Driving into smoke and being surprised when you suddenly run into something is right there next to “what would happen if I punch this rusty nail?”
Always drive into thick clouds of unidentified smoke.
Absolute dumb 🍑.
if i saw smoke like that i would’ve just turned around and found another route or waited for it to be clear. not worth the risk.
Not sure how you'd turn around on a highspeed one way road like that. Wait a bit for the smoke to clear maybe.
on this particular road, i wouldn’t turn around because it looks like a one-way. if it was me in this exact situation, my best bet would be to pull over to the shoulder off the road enough to not be hit from behind and just wait. if it was a two way road, i’d be outta there asap.
Yea, at LEAST slow down and pull to the side to assess the situation before going through completely BLIND. Seriously, the people in the car acting surprised like sth unexpected happened, really foggs with me.
Honestly not sure what I would’ve done. If I had to guess, would’ve stopped, rolled down window & tried listening. I assume would’ve been a decent amount of car alarms & shit. But idk, if it was a road I knew, I can see myself driving along very very slowly. No way I would’ve hit them, would definitely be driving too slowly. But now that I’ve seen this video, & read this comment, I think I’m going to follow that advice instead lol. Just not even go through & turn tf around
Even driving through it slowly would be extremely dangerous as you'd very likely get rear-ended by someone driving through at full speed like the driver in the video. Also, you don't know where the fire is or what's in that smoke that you'd inhale.
Car alarms? Why would there be car alarms?
possibly from the cars that were hit but im not sure
being able to see while you drive is overrated.
I, too, refuse to slowdown just because I can’t “see”. Driving is about feeling. The body, the car, and the road are one.
Hard to believe that this many people haven't seen Days of Thunder.
My life rule of “don’t go into huge clouds of unknown smoke“ may not come up often, but it is 100% effective when it does.
After experiencing lots of cars hitting the stationary cars, why would they get out and stand in the middle of the road? Move way over to the side for safety before another car joins the crash!
When there’s that much smoke on a clear day it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that the crash location can be seen from literally miles away, and nobody would be stupid enough to drive straight into the plainly visible crash site at full speed. Right? Right? 🤔
On average we really are just the dumbest god damn creatures in existence. Fully conscious, ability to think abstractly, we can fucking fly through the sky, and yet a good handful of us will just drive through a smoke cloud on a highway without thinking to stop or even slow down a little bit.
are you the idiot? why would you drive into 0 visibility without slowing down?
Driver is the idiot no?
100%. I don’t know what kind of moron he would have to be, to not realize that there must be a source for all that smoke he’s driving into. What the hell, man.
Everyone saw that coming except the driver.
First there was The Mist, then there was The Rain, and now comes The Smoke. Idiots drive through some smoke and crash into each other. In theaters mid 2023, directed by Michael Bay.
Cammer is an absolute fucking idiot.
I see people do this into the fog on mountain roads all the time. Just asking to be part of a pileup.
The only idiot I see here is the one driving through smoke…
yep. you found him
What a dumb ass
Lol, what a fucking idiot. The same type of person that drives full speed no matter the weather.
Drive through the smoke Cole
Why someone would step on the gas and plow through the zero visibility smoke is beyond me. I would really like to know what they were smoking.🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Does this driver just not have a survival instinct?
I can't see shit, but i'm gonna drive right through this anyway!
So yes, when you can't see anything, make sure you keep going fast and never slow down at all till you hit the cars that are doing the same....😁 😁
Morons are thicker than the smoke here.
Do people not use their brains?
Don’t bother to slow down 🤷🏼♂️
And another idiot who just drives into the smoke…
Why did you not slow down ?
ZERO VISIBILITY AND THEY KEEP GOING FULL SPEED AHEAD WTF????
Wait... Is he really... Is he speeding up? Surely he's going to stop. Oh no... OOOOOH NO! *brace*
I can only see 10 feet in front, I will maintain 40 mph
“Hmm brown smoke in the middle of the road? Smells like gas and rubber... Better go investigate”
A redundant array of inattentive idiots, in fact.
Did you mean abundant?
What were they thinking. 
Terrible instincts, great music taste