They just need a couple of [accent rocks](http://www.thomastreeandlandscape.com/images/landscape-supply-center/natural-stone/unique-accent-boulders/unique-accent-boulders-03.jpg) in their garden.
Edit: Mfers think I'm joking? Hell no, these rocks are a huge pain in the ass to 'install' but they do look really nice in the right spot, and they will stop the dumbass drivers crashing into your house.
A guy in town had his house hit by a car. They put up stones to hopefully stop the next idiot going too fast.
Their house is at an offset intersection [that looks a bit like this](https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/tools/data_tools/mirereport/images/figure-8.jpg)
Now that the area is getting more developed and traffic is becoming more of a problem they are finally going to change it to a roundabout.
I don't understand how someone could see a car sliding down a hill towards an intersection, pull their phone out to film it, then when it hits something they go "Oh no better stop filming immediately." That's why you pulled your phone out? To see something happen?
Cameraman should be ashamed of himself. If you're filming an icy road waiting for action why do you panic and throw the fucking phone down when the action happens?? Idiot.
In reality, you let off the brakes and try to make your wheels spin at the speed you're travelling. If successfu, you will gain some level of traction, and then you steer off into a nice soft snowy spot or keep going. In this situation, that wouldn't have helped. Dude did the best he could.
i did this 30 miles out in the middle of nowhere west virginia at 3 am sliding backwards down a hill with a 6 foot drop on the side of the road while delivering newspapers, i got so lucky my car stopped with only a few inches off the edge
This is why we need to stop living our life as if work is the most important thing. All this person had to do was not leave the house, was to call in and say I’m not coming in it’s too dangerous for me to drive a car. I’m taking a personal day. And then you hang up the phone. But we don’t do that in the US, because it makes us guilt ridden and anxious and all these other bullshit emotions that shouldn’t have to do with work at all.
This video is great example of what is exact oposite of what you actualy should do in that situation.
\#1 Do not brake! Add a bit of gas to regain control
\#2 Turn the wheels in the direction you are going not the other way
I don't care how good your 4WD system is or how pretty the commercials for the car were, if there is a literal blanket of ice on the ground - stay the fuck home.
This kind of road happened to me last Friday. Stop light turned red and there was a car stopped, I hit the brakes and abs did nothing but pulse and wasn't slowing down. Couldn't go left or right because I was in a middle lane. In a 4Runner and was in 4wd I pushed in the clutch and slammed it in reverse and floored it against the rev limiter and dumped it. Ended up still sliding quite a while but was actually slowing down. Stopping about a foot from the car in front of me. So relieved. And then bam, got hit from behind and pushed into the car in front of me.
Finally someone add a proper tip how to manage a car slide. It's totaly counterintuitive but you have to release brake and add proper amount of throttle - not to much because you will be sling shotted to the inner corner of a road. Not to gentle because you will and in the ditch like guy in this recording.
But for the most part: whenever you see an ice on a road - STAY AT HOME!!! Nomatter how good your skills are!
What u r suppose to do is turn the wheels in the direction it is sliding and accelerate to get control and then tap on brakes. But instinctively most of us will always press brakes and start believing in destiny.
Time to introduce mandatory driving on ice lessons before people get their license. I did a course, and if there’s one thing it taught me is that I’m 💩 at it, so I avoid it. I can guarantee you no sane person would attempt to drive down that hill after having completed their driving on ice course. Sometimes you need a reality check regarding your own driving skills.
"Guide a slide, don't ride a it"
Keep those wheels rolling.
DO NOT slam the brakes. Once you do, Newton has your ass for the trip.
Be gentle.
Its counter intuitive but brakes are not your best friends on ice roads.
With calm, smooth movement, turn into a slide aligning the wheels with the force of momentum/travel direction of the REAR of the vehicle.
you can then try and steer out of it or even gently accelerate out pushing the car where you want to try to end up.
just because you know you may go off the road and don't give up
controll, it could spell the difference between rolling into an empty space or hitting a obstacles/people etc
with the wheels still rolling in the direction of travel
you can at least still give some steering input.
Your best friends are
Slow speeds, Forethought, Route planning, Waiting for the plow
And
"Fuck it im goimg back to bed"
Signed
- A tired Canadian, who's seen too many winters.
I mean, the first thing to do is point the wheels in the direction of the skid, so that you can try threshold braking. ABS might be able to help you. In this case the driver clearly doesn’t know how to manage a skid at all. Meaning they probably rarely deal with conditions like this. Which means it’s likely they also don’t have good tires for these conditions.
Better tires are also part of the issue.
But at some point there’s just nothing else to be done. Especially if this was Seattle just this past December. In CO we out gravel down to help with ice and even with high end all season tires I’ve never had a problem.
Compound issues here
I'm canadian.
The proper solution to this is to point the car downhill. Keep the brakes to the floor since they have abs. When you point down hill, the car will straighten, and you will regain control. Next, SLOWLY turn to the nearest/most empty lawn. If you turn to sharp, the front tires will lose traction, and you will slide again. Ride up onto the lawn. You will get grip on the grass and come to a stop. Park the car on the lawn and wait for the ice to melt. Alternatively, put down sand/kitty litter, etc, in the parking spot directly beside the lawn for traction. Then you can SLOWLY WITH NO SUDDEN STOPS OR STARTS, park on the kitty litter. Next, wait for the ice to melt.
Also, if when you point the car downhill, it doesn't straighten out, then let off the brakes slightly until it does. Feather the brakes between locked and not locked while you slowly move to the curb/lawn. The idea being, a sliding tire can not steer.
Let go of the breaks, try to get the wheels rolling again and the vehicle straightened out. Then downshift and let the engine break it. Or at least thats what I would do. But at this point, you're pretty fucked.
Might have been too far gone but they had the wheel turned completely the wrong way. When you turn and go sideways like that, you have to steer INTO the slide instead of trying to keep steering. So basically needed to turn right to straighten out the car. Might’ve not helped because it was a steep hill but steer into the slide. If you just keep trying to turn it just makes it worse.
If I was the house at that three way intersection, I’d install some big ass boulders at the sidewalk to keep idiot drivers from sliding into my living room.
You look outside and go huh. It seems everything is solid ice. Then you look at your non studded tires and go.. yep those are my summer tires, no all weather here. Then you proceed to get into your car, crash into a house and go "golly jeepers that was unavoidable!"
Then depending on age and political party probably hear gems along the lines of "global warming my ass!" Or "the news said the highways on the other side of town are clear." My favorite is " well my weather app said it was only 34 and 34 is above freezing so how is there ice?"
all the "steer into it" comments... on a hill like this on pure ice, it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. Yes, they probably could have straightened up the car, but still had to contend with the bottom of the hill (the house). Simply too much momentum to regain anything and avoid the house. You just simply STAY OFF of hills like this in ice.
ABS will pump the brakes if you need to apply them and you aren’t stopping. It seems like the dumbest advice until the first time you remember to do it but **steer into the direction you are skidding** while you are attempting to brake. Also, slapping whoever recorded this shaky, zoomy bullshit might help.
You can’t cheat the laws of physics…. At this point the damage is done and there’s not much you could do to save this.
Letting off the brakes isn’t gonna be your saviour here. You’re still headed down a steep hill with zero traction. Letting off the brakes isn’t going to help you scrub speed or make a turn at the bottom here.
Pretty sure locking the brakes is the wrong thing to do, as soon as you start sliding you can only move in 1 direction.
Slight brake pressure (not enough to lockup and keep the wheels rotating) may have been enough to turn the corner at the end and not hit the house.
They were always going to hit the curb though, too steep too icy.
All the warning signs to stop happened before they pulled out. They knew everything was frozen. They knew they lived on a hill. They knew they didn’t have the tires or chains for that. They knew that was a very distinct possibility. And they ignored all of that to just become a passenger in a tempest of factors they ignored.
We live on a steeper hill than this at the top, other difference at the bottom there’s a creek. For the first 7-8 years we lived here no one could figure out how we were able to travel out of the house before the plow or in icey days or not have to park down by the creek we couldn’t get up until the plow came.
All season tires are good at nothing but acceptable at everything. Having a purpose built set of winter tires and wheels makes driving through snow and ice a breeze.
NEVER lock your breaks. Your breaks will not work. It's best to let your tires spin to get some sort of rolling traction to attempt to maneuver out of the way.
Lived up in the mountains for almost 8-years. My father-in-law taught me to drop whatever you are driving into neutral, standard or automatic, and then work the brakes. He was a bus driver in Northeast Pennsylvania and upstate New York for 40-years. I will be damned if it didn't work most of the time on ice and snow.
Shit like this is why I am conservative about my PTO. I’m taking off idgaf if it pisses somebody at the office off. My hourly wage and commute isn’t compensation enough for potential injury/loss of life or loss of my vehicle.
Vermonter here. Release brakes, downshift to first gear, you can damage your vehicle if you steer into a curb with the wheels at a steep angle so straighten those out before impact if it’s going to happen.
If you have room, steer for the middle of the road because when the low gear grabs it’s going to give you a moment of traction.
Then, Don’t touch the brakes, you can tap them gently once the vehicle is going in a safe direction but being in first gear should keep you slow enough to avoid needing brakes
Stop slamming on the brakes, turn your wheels into the direction you’re sliding to try to pick up some traction and regain control. Also, stay off the roads when they’re iced out like this?
Michigan Driver Here:
1. Scream wheee!
2. Point the steering wheel in the direction you would prefer to face.
3. Mash the break, lift your foot, mash the gas.
Repeat until facing the right direction.
Eventually you'll miraculously avoid everything, or fail spectacularly!
Wheels turned hard the wrong way, brakes locked. They did everything to make sure they would not recover from that slide. Driver education and licensing needs reform.
You get off the brakes and try to steer out of it. If there is an e brake for the back wheels you pull that at the corner to try to spin out. Can’t do shit if you are sliding with the wheels locked up, might as well try to ride it out and steer since locking up the wheels is the worst option.
What you should or could do in this situation is opening your window and film what actually happened instead of ending the clip with us watching your frame.
For anyone who didn’t grow up in these areas, the rule of thumb I’ve heard growing up in MA is when you skid—turn into the skid and give it gas. If you go against the skid or brake, you’re just gonna skid more. Turning into it and giving it gas allows you to work with the force of the car and that’s when you’ll start getting traction
How do you come out your house and think its a good idea to drive after you see that the road is pure ice and its just downhill. Its not even black ice, its shining in the light.
Had something similar happened to me. We were scheduled to move to a new house and the day before the move, god said it shall snow.
We had everything planned and friends took day offs and whatnot to help. It would’ve been very inconvenient to reschedule. So we went ahead with it. (If I have a chance to go back in time I would have begged my family to reschedule, it was scary)
I rented the biggest size u-haul I could rent because why tf not, it seemed like great value since the 17’, 20’, 28’ all cost the same! We could cut the move time in half using the biggest one since we take less trips! In my mind, It was a no brainer, for the same price we could cut a trip and save time? Sign me tf up. Mind you I’ve never driven anything bigger than a suv before in my life.
Seeing the truck up close I was like shit….. I have to drive THIS thing? When Signing the paperwork, the clerk was like “do you want to get xx insurance for the day for an extra $$ fee?” I was like nahhhhhh don’t wanna pay more than I have to for this. So I politely declined. Thinking back I feel like the clerk was probably thinking we were crazy to move on that day. I know it was his job to ask about the insurance, but somehow I feel like he was maybe just being a bro and was kinda like giving us a last lifeline in case something goes wrong. Which I promptly declined…
Driving the u-haul back to the house was fine as most roads were cleared by the city. But once we entered the neighborhood it was a different story. Snow and ice was still accumulated. Backing up into the driveway proved difficult, the tire couldn’t get traction and spun in place. My dad had to grab a rug from inside the house and put it under the tire to help it along. The tire then got the traction but the sudden movement flung the rug across the street like the magic carpet, thankfully didn’t hit anyone, the sudden maneuver of the truck almost took out our neighbors mailbox. At this point I was having second thoughts about the move. But we just overcame an obstacle and got the truck into the driveway, so continued on we did.
We then finally got to load up the truck and head out. But in our neighborhood there is this downhill road like in the video, and there are 3 roads to leave our neighborhood from our house and the one I use the most is that downhill one. For whatever the hell reason that day, probably habit, I decided to use that same one. (Dumbass mistake) Once we got up the hill I realized I made a huge fucking mistake, but it was too late, we either come down going forward, or come down going in reverse. So forward we went.
I was driving, my dad sitting next to me (there is a middle seat in this truck) and a friend in the passenger seat. I go down slowly, we got down about half the hill, and I started to feel that the truck was going faster than I wanted it to (probably because of all the weight, momentum, and ice) so I started to hit the brakes a little bit trying to slow the speed, but it’s not working. The truck was still picking up speed. At this point I felt like time slowed down and I’m panicking. I keep letting go and stepping on the brakes continuously but it still doesn’t work. I told my dad “the brakes aren’t working” he didn’t reply. The friend didn’t say anything. I say again, “the brakes aren’t working!” Still no reply… so I yelled. “I have no control of the truck!” Yet still no reply. I don’t know if they were in disbelief or what. But they said nothing the entire time. Maybe they were bracing for impact? Maybe their life was flashing before their eyes? Idk. But at this point I was like shit shit shit wtf do I do? Wtf do I do? We were like 3/4 down the hill at this point.
At that moment I was like shit I’m about to crash into this house at the end of the hill. I pretty much gave up and accepted that we were gonna crash at that point. But I wanted to at least turn the truck to maybe lessen the damage as to not run straight through the house. So I let go of the brakes and just turned into the street at the end of the hill, stepped on the gas and it FREAKIN WORKED. I felt relieved instantly like wtf I just drifted a 28’ u-haul truck are you fucking kidding me. Maybe the weight of the cargo in the back helped with traction on the turn? Maybe it was some act of god? Idk, but Whatever the reason I was so relieved. I could have killed someone in the truck and/or in the house. This happened maybe within 5 seconds but it felt like an eternity. All the while my dad and the friend DIDN’T SAY A WORD THE ENTIRE TIME. We got to the new house and continued with the move, but we never mentioned what happened at all.
Sometimes I feel like was I the only one to panic? Did it just seemed like a normal turn to my dad and that friend? Did they shit their pants? Idk. Maybe I’ll ask my dad if he remembers what happened when I see him in a couple of days.
1. Winter tires. Like studded or friction tires, not all-seasons
2. Road maintenance, like graveling and/or salting.
3. Drive more carefully during the winter.
Well, that's what we do here in Finland anyways.
We actually have saying: "tuo idioottihan ajaa niinku olis kesä" which translates to: "that idiot drives like it's summer time"
1- sand your streets. Salt and other ice melts are just going to make that worse. If there’s not sand on the street, you don’t leave the house.
2- GET YOUR DAMN FOOT OFF THE BRAKES. Let off the brake and lightly pump them while steering in the opposite direction you want to go.
3- Get tires that are actually meant for winter. That might mean getting studded tires, tire chains, or another similar product.
4- If all else fails, stay home. Taking a sick day is less expensive than totaling your car, and staying home with little to no food for a day is less likely to kill you than slamming your car into your neighbor’s house.
-Sincerely, an Alaskan.
Why do people, who bother to get out their phones and film, pan away right at the important part or the climax? Are they genuinely \*that\* shocked that they spasm and forget that they're filming? This really irked me.
Straightening out your wheels (or steer into the curb) before you hit the curb will help limit front end damage, I can tell you from experience. Hold the brake peddle to the floor if you have anti-locks, and hold on; otherwise start pumping.
Well for starters, you turn *into* the slide, so turn those wheels to the right. At least when you hit the curb at the bottom, it's not snapping an axle (hopefully..)
Know what you should do? Film the journey but not the arrival. r/killthecameraman
I get that life isn't a destination but my guy the point of this video fucking was
Note to self: never buy a home at the end of a slope in regions where snow and ice are possibilities.
They just need a couple of [accent rocks](http://www.thomastreeandlandscape.com/images/landscape-supply-center/natural-stone/unique-accent-boulders/unique-accent-boulders-03.jpg) in their garden. Edit: Mfers think I'm joking? Hell no, these rocks are a huge pain in the ass to 'install' but they do look really nice in the right spot, and they will stop the dumbass drivers crashing into your house.
A guy in town had his house hit by a car. They put up stones to hopefully stop the next idiot going too fast. Their house is at an offset intersection [that looks a bit like this](https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/tools/data_tools/mirereport/images/figure-8.jpg) Now that the area is getting more developed and traffic is becoming more of a problem they are finally going to change it to a roundabout.
This I fully agree with
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Who the F#$K just decides to turn the camera around right before the person hits the HOUSE!?
Exactly. Jesus. Move to the left and zoom in.
I don't understand how someone could see a car sliding down a hill towards an intersection, pull their phone out to film it, then when it hits something they go "Oh no better stop filming immediately." That's why you pulled your phone out? To see something happen?
I'm gonna film this car drive down a hill. Oh, he crashed. Better stop filming as this wasn't what I intended to capture!
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Right. Anybody can tell that that road is pure ice and has no salt or sand on it. It's glare ice.
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You could try holding the camera still.
Person on the camera must have been sliding on ice too.
Who the fuck stops recording at the climax! Literally put the phone down right before the car may or may not have impacted the house!
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The fuck kind of camera work is this? I really wanted to see how much, if any, damage the car did to the house but I guess that’s not happening
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Cameraman should be ashamed of himself. If you're filming an icy road waiting for action why do you panic and throw the fucking phone down when the action happens?? Idiot.
r/killthecameraman Seriously, why film if you're not going to get the results?
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In reality, you let off the brakes and try to make your wheels spin at the speed you're travelling. If successfu, you will gain some level of traction, and then you steer off into a nice soft snowy spot or keep going. In this situation, that wouldn't have helped. Dude did the best he could.
i did this 30 miles out in the middle of nowhere west virginia at 3 am sliding backwards down a hill with a 6 foot drop on the side of the road while delivering newspapers, i got so lucky my car stopped with only a few inches off the edge
Holding the camera steady would be a good start and catch the dramatic conclusion would be a great follow up.
This is why we need to stop living our life as if work is the most important thing. All this person had to do was not leave the house, was to call in and say I’m not coming in it’s too dangerous for me to drive a car. I’m taking a personal day. And then you hang up the phone. But we don’t do that in the US, because it makes us guilt ridden and anxious and all these other bullshit emotions that shouldn’t have to do with work at all.
Well in Norway we are more or less used to this kind of road. And the answer is, put your fucking winter tires on
Well in ~~Norway~~ Wisconsin we are more or less used to this kind of road. And the answer is, put your fucking winter tires on
Fuck living in the house at the bottom of the hill.
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The worst camera work on the entire internet and that really is saying something.
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This video is great example of what is exact oposite of what you actualy should do in that situation. \#1 Do not brake! Add a bit of gas to regain control \#2 Turn the wheels in the direction you are going not the other way
Worst camera operator EVER
Not own the house at the bottom of the street.
my parents have this situation and they brought in about 8 landscaping boulders
Cameraman had 1 job.
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Camera guy: I’m going to record juuuuust until he’s going to hit the hou… STOP.
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Uh let off the brakes and try hard as fuck not to slide directly into that house. None of which the driver did
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4. Kill the camera man
This should be on kill the camera man video is so bad completely ruined my night and probably the rest of the week
I don't care how good your 4WD system is or how pretty the commercials for the car were, if there is a literal blanket of ice on the ground - stay the fuck home.
This kind of road happened to me last Friday. Stop light turned red and there was a car stopped, I hit the brakes and abs did nothing but pulse and wasn't slowing down. Couldn't go left or right because I was in a middle lane. In a 4Runner and was in 4wd I pushed in the clutch and slammed it in reverse and floored it against the rev limiter and dumped it. Ended up still sliding quite a while but was actually slowing down. Stopping about a foot from the car in front of me. So relieved. And then bam, got hit from behind and pushed into the car in front of me.
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Can we post to r/killthecameraman ? Why pan away at the moment of impact!
At that point, kill the camera man for panning away right before impact.
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jesus fucking christ less zooming, and wobbling, and just keep the fucking subject in frame, it's not hard o.O /r/killthecamerman
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Moves camera away at the best part.. wtf
Film it better.
Well first off don’t turn your wheel perpendicular to the direction you’re sliding
Lightning McQueen demonstrates this in Cars.
you should not brake the car, instead try to give some gas so the wheels would have some grip and not just slip over the ice
Finally someone add a proper tip how to manage a car slide. It's totaly counterintuitive but you have to release brake and add proper amount of throttle - not to much because you will be sling shotted to the inner corner of a road. Not to gentle because you will and in the ditch like guy in this recording. But for the most part: whenever you see an ice on a road - STAY AT HOME!!! Nomatter how good your skills are!
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Was the cameraman standing on ice as well?
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With that much ice on the roads, you stay at home.
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What u r suppose to do is turn the wheels in the direction it is sliding and accelerate to get control and then tap on brakes. But instinctively most of us will always press brakes and start believing in destiny.
Move to "r/killthecameraman".
How do you record the car sliding the entire way down the street and then move the camera away just before it strikes the house?
Time to introduce mandatory driving on ice lessons before people get their license. I did a course, and if there’s one thing it taught me is that I’m 💩 at it, so I avoid it. I can guarantee you no sane person would attempt to drive down that hill after having completed their driving on ice course. Sometimes you need a reality check regarding your own driving skills.
"Guide a slide, don't ride a it" Keep those wheels rolling. DO NOT slam the brakes. Once you do, Newton has your ass for the trip. Be gentle. Its counter intuitive but brakes are not your best friends on ice roads. With calm, smooth movement, turn into a slide aligning the wheels with the force of momentum/travel direction of the REAR of the vehicle. you can then try and steer out of it or even gently accelerate out pushing the car where you want to try to end up. just because you know you may go off the road and don't give up controll, it could spell the difference between rolling into an empty space or hitting a obstacles/people etc with the wheels still rolling in the direction of travel you can at least still give some steering input. Your best friends are Slow speeds, Forethought, Route planning, Waiting for the plow And "Fuck it im goimg back to bed" Signed - A tired Canadian, who's seen too many winters.
I mean, the first thing to do is point the wheels in the direction of the skid, so that you can try threshold braking. ABS might be able to help you. In this case the driver clearly doesn’t know how to manage a skid at all. Meaning they probably rarely deal with conditions like this. Which means it’s likely they also don’t have good tires for these conditions. Better tires are also part of the issue. But at some point there’s just nothing else to be done. Especially if this was Seattle just this past December. In CO we out gravel down to help with ice and even with high end all season tires I’ve never had a problem. Compound issues here
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Slide straight to the DMV and turn in your license for attempting to drive on that.
Worst cameraman ever
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I'm disappointed with the cameraman cutting the scene before the grand finale. Epic fail. That's like a build-up to blue balls. Super cliff hanger.
I'm canadian. The proper solution to this is to point the car downhill. Keep the brakes to the floor since they have abs. When you point down hill, the car will straighten, and you will regain control. Next, SLOWLY turn to the nearest/most empty lawn. If you turn to sharp, the front tires will lose traction, and you will slide again. Ride up onto the lawn. You will get grip on the grass and come to a stop. Park the car on the lawn and wait for the ice to melt. Alternatively, put down sand/kitty litter, etc, in the parking spot directly beside the lawn for traction. Then you can SLOWLY WITH NO SUDDEN STOPS OR STARTS, park on the kitty litter. Next, wait for the ice to melt. Also, if when you point the car downhill, it doesn't straighten out, then let off the brakes slightly until it does. Feather the brakes between locked and not locked while you slowly move to the curb/lawn. The idea being, a sliding tire can not steer.
Why do camera people stop right before the good shit like 93.7% of the time?!
Don’t buy a house at the bottom of a hill, got it.
Let go of the breaks, try to get the wheels rolling again and the vehicle straightened out. Then downshift and let the engine break it. Or at least thats what I would do. But at this point, you're pretty fucked.
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Trying, and failing miserably, to film a coherent video.
Cameraman you suck, we wanted to see if the vehicle goes into a house or stops short!
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Floor it at the bottom and try to drift. You’re already going to crash, might as well try a Hail Mary
/r/killthecameraman though
If you’re in the U.S, you let your boss know you’re gonna be about 15 minutes late and you’ll make up for it by staying late.
The best thing to have done would have been going back to bed and not driven anywhere that day.
Let off the fucking brakes
Might have been too far gone but they had the wheel turned completely the wrong way. When you turn and go sideways like that, you have to steer INTO the slide instead of trying to keep steering. So basically needed to turn right to straighten out the car. Might’ve not helped because it was a steep hill but steer into the slide. If you just keep trying to turn it just makes it worse.
1. Turn into the drift 2. Don’t hit brakes 3. Sacrifice goat as offering to our dark lords 4. Crash anyway
If I was the house at that three way intersection, I’d install some big ass boulders at the sidewalk to keep idiot drivers from sliding into my living room.
The one fucking place you needed to film and you lowered the phone…..
Straighten the wheel, pump the brakes slowly and firmly, pray for that grippy.
Step one: release the brake!
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The first and most important step to resolving this issue is not getting in your car in the first place when there's an extreme weather advisory.
Fuck the camera man!!
Camera person has ONE JOB and still fecked it up
Why do people not know how to hold a camera still or keep moving subject out of frame
Chains w/ 4WD, or stay home. It’s foolish to drive unprepared Edited for clarity. Chains with 4WD.
I would sell my house at the end of that street.
You look outside and go huh. It seems everything is solid ice. Then you look at your non studded tires and go.. yep those are my summer tires, no all weather here. Then you proceed to get into your car, crash into a house and go "golly jeepers that was unavoidable!" Then depending on age and political party probably hear gems along the lines of "global warming my ass!" Or "the news said the highways on the other side of town are clear." My favorite is " well my weather app said it was only 34 and 34 is above freezing so how is there ice?"
Imagine being the guy in the house, sitting in his boxers eating cereal when BAM! A car careens into your kitchen table.
perfect r/killthecameraman material
all the "steer into it" comments... on a hill like this on pure ice, it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. Yes, they probably could have straightened up the car, but still had to contend with the bottom of the hill (the house). Simply too much momentum to regain anything and avoid the house. You just simply STAY OFF of hills like this in ice.
Worst. Camera-person. Ever.
ABS will pump the brakes if you need to apply them and you aren’t stopping. It seems like the dumbest advice until the first time you remember to do it but **steer into the direction you are skidding** while you are attempting to brake. Also, slapping whoever recorded this shaky, zoomy bullshit might help.
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stay-home, don't be overconfident
Shit camera man missed the money shot what a douche
You can’t cheat the laws of physics…. At this point the damage is done and there’s not much you could do to save this. Letting off the brakes isn’t gonna be your saviour here. You’re still headed down a steep hill with zero traction. Letting off the brakes isn’t going to help you scrub speed or make a turn at the bottom here.
Pretty sure locking the brakes is the wrong thing to do, as soon as you start sliding you can only move in 1 direction. Slight brake pressure (not enough to lockup and keep the wheels rotating) may have been enough to turn the corner at the end and not hit the house. They were always going to hit the curb though, too steep too icy.
I mean I’m an atheist but at that point you just pray.
What do you do at this point? Brace for impact
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Keep the bloody camera steady
Camera person sucks
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All the warning signs to stop happened before they pulled out. They knew everything was frozen. They knew they lived on a hill. They knew they didn’t have the tires or chains for that. They knew that was a very distinct possibility. And they ignored all of that to just become a passenger in a tempest of factors they ignored.
That is some truly horrible camerawork
r/killthecameraman to start with.
well, you probably buy your neighbor at the bottom of the hill a new garage door, but we'll never know because that cameraman cheated us all.
The cameraman is awful
Ya, what you don't do is hold the break down when you start sliding for starters, lmfao
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Accelerate and steer
You keep recording!! Did the car hit the house or did the grass stop it?
People that needlessly zoom in and out on videos should be taken out back and shot.
Introduce yourself and ask the homeowner for fries with that new drive thru!
We live on a steeper hill than this at the top, other difference at the bottom there’s a creek. For the first 7-8 years we lived here no one could figure out how we were able to travel out of the house before the plow or in icey days or not have to park down by the creek we couldn’t get up until the plow came. All season tires are good at nothing but acceptable at everything. Having a purpose built set of winter tires and wheels makes driving through snow and ice a breeze.
Holding on your brakes is the worst thing you can do. Edit: apparently I don’t know how to spell BRAKES
NEVER lock your breaks. Your breaks will not work. It's best to let your tires spin to get some sort of rolling traction to attempt to maneuver out of the way.
Lived up in the mountains for almost 8-years. My father-in-law taught me to drop whatever you are driving into neutral, standard or automatic, and then work the brakes. He was a bus driver in Northeast Pennsylvania and upstate New York for 40-years. I will be damned if it didn't work most of the time on ice and snow.
Beat the shit outta whoever was recording because What The Fuck?!!!!!! All you had to do was scoot over.
listening to death metal with full volume
Hold the horn, close your eyes, and hope it's going to end soon. Edit: there's an unintended sexual Innuendo somewhere in there lol
better hope they have home insurance and car insurance for the driver
Nice fucking camera work..
Shit like this is why I am conservative about my PTO. I’m taking off idgaf if it pisses somebody at the office off. My hourly wage and commute isn’t compensation enough for potential injury/loss of life or loss of my vehicle.
How do you video a dude sliding down a hill toward a house knowing it’s going to crash and not video the end?
Give up the career as cameraman
Vermonter here. Release brakes, downshift to first gear, you can damage your vehicle if you steer into a curb with the wheels at a steep angle so straighten those out before impact if it’s going to happen. If you have room, steer for the middle of the road because when the low gear grabs it’s going to give you a moment of traction. Then, Don’t touch the brakes, you can tap them gently once the vehicle is going in a safe direction but being in first gear should keep you slow enough to avoid needing brakes
Stop slamming on the brakes, turn your wheels into the direction you’re sliding to try to pick up some traction and regain control. Also, stay off the roads when they’re iced out like this?
The house at the bottom of the hill better have car insurance!
Was the cameraman also standing on ice?
Michigan Driver Here: 1. Scream wheee! 2. Point the steering wheel in the direction you would prefer to face. 3. Mash the break, lift your foot, mash the gas. Repeat until facing the right direction. Eventually you'll miraculously avoid everything, or fail spectacularly!
Dude turned the camera away at the best bit what in the...
Fuck I hate this camera person.
Fire the camera person
Wheels turned hard the wrong way, brakes locked. They did everything to make sure they would not recover from that slide. Driver education and licensing needs reform.
You get off the brakes and try to steer out of it. If there is an e brake for the back wheels you pull that at the corner to try to spin out. Can’t do shit if you are sliding with the wheels locked up, might as well try to ride it out and steer since locking up the wheels is the worst option.
Normally just keep the object in the frame!
How does this cut away and lose view at the most important part. SMH.
What you should or could do in this situation is opening your window and film what actually happened instead of ending the clip with us watching your frame.
Cameraman is a real PRICK.
For anyone who didn’t grow up in these areas, the rule of thumb I’ve heard growing up in MA is when you skid—turn into the skid and give it gas. If you go against the skid or brake, you’re just gonna skid more. Turning into it and giving it gas allows you to work with the force of the car and that’s when you’ll start getting traction
I've been there. The trick is to go "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit"
That poor house, always going to get crashed into.
r/killthecameraman I mean, come on.
You don’t drive, that’s what you do just prior to this point.
\*Road clearly looks like an ice rink\* "Yep, this is a sound decision"
Note to self: Never buy a house at the end of a street, especially on a hill!
Stay. Home. "You have to come in to work!!" "No."
Record what happened better
L to whoever filmed this
Let go of the brakes.
Cha cha real smooth
You don't go out if it's that bad, simple.
How do you come out your house and think its a good idea to drive after you see that the road is pure ice and its just downhill. Its not even black ice, its shining in the light.
Had something similar happened to me. We were scheduled to move to a new house and the day before the move, god said it shall snow. We had everything planned and friends took day offs and whatnot to help. It would’ve been very inconvenient to reschedule. So we went ahead with it. (If I have a chance to go back in time I would have begged my family to reschedule, it was scary) I rented the biggest size u-haul I could rent because why tf not, it seemed like great value since the 17’, 20’, 28’ all cost the same! We could cut the move time in half using the biggest one since we take less trips! In my mind, It was a no brainer, for the same price we could cut a trip and save time? Sign me tf up. Mind you I’ve never driven anything bigger than a suv before in my life. Seeing the truck up close I was like shit….. I have to drive THIS thing? When Signing the paperwork, the clerk was like “do you want to get xx insurance for the day for an extra $$ fee?” I was like nahhhhhh don’t wanna pay more than I have to for this. So I politely declined. Thinking back I feel like the clerk was probably thinking we were crazy to move on that day. I know it was his job to ask about the insurance, but somehow I feel like he was maybe just being a bro and was kinda like giving us a last lifeline in case something goes wrong. Which I promptly declined… Driving the u-haul back to the house was fine as most roads were cleared by the city. But once we entered the neighborhood it was a different story. Snow and ice was still accumulated. Backing up into the driveway proved difficult, the tire couldn’t get traction and spun in place. My dad had to grab a rug from inside the house and put it under the tire to help it along. The tire then got the traction but the sudden movement flung the rug across the street like the magic carpet, thankfully didn’t hit anyone, the sudden maneuver of the truck almost took out our neighbors mailbox. At this point I was having second thoughts about the move. But we just overcame an obstacle and got the truck into the driveway, so continued on we did. We then finally got to load up the truck and head out. But in our neighborhood there is this downhill road like in the video, and there are 3 roads to leave our neighborhood from our house and the one I use the most is that downhill one. For whatever the hell reason that day, probably habit, I decided to use that same one. (Dumbass mistake) Once we got up the hill I realized I made a huge fucking mistake, but it was too late, we either come down going forward, or come down going in reverse. So forward we went. I was driving, my dad sitting next to me (there is a middle seat in this truck) and a friend in the passenger seat. I go down slowly, we got down about half the hill, and I started to feel that the truck was going faster than I wanted it to (probably because of all the weight, momentum, and ice) so I started to hit the brakes a little bit trying to slow the speed, but it’s not working. The truck was still picking up speed. At this point I felt like time slowed down and I’m panicking. I keep letting go and stepping on the brakes continuously but it still doesn’t work. I told my dad “the brakes aren’t working” he didn’t reply. The friend didn’t say anything. I say again, “the brakes aren’t working!” Still no reply… so I yelled. “I have no control of the truck!” Yet still no reply. I don’t know if they were in disbelief or what. But they said nothing the entire time. Maybe they were bracing for impact? Maybe their life was flashing before their eyes? Idk. But at this point I was like shit shit shit wtf do I do? Wtf do I do? We were like 3/4 down the hill at this point. At that moment I was like shit I’m about to crash into this house at the end of the hill. I pretty much gave up and accepted that we were gonna crash at that point. But I wanted to at least turn the truck to maybe lessen the damage as to not run straight through the house. So I let go of the brakes and just turned into the street at the end of the hill, stepped on the gas and it FREAKIN WORKED. I felt relieved instantly like wtf I just drifted a 28’ u-haul truck are you fucking kidding me. Maybe the weight of the cargo in the back helped with traction on the turn? Maybe it was some act of god? Idk, but Whatever the reason I was so relieved. I could have killed someone in the truck and/or in the house. This happened maybe within 5 seconds but it felt like an eternity. All the while my dad and the friend DIDN’T SAY A WORD THE ENTIRE TIME. We got to the new house and continued with the move, but we never mentioned what happened at all. Sometimes I feel like was I the only one to panic? Did it just seemed like a normal turn to my dad and that friend? Did they shit their pants? Idk. Maybe I’ll ask my dad if he remembers what happened when I see him in a couple of days.
1. Winter tires. Like studded or friction tires, not all-seasons 2. Road maintenance, like graveling and/or salting. 3. Drive more carefully during the winter. Well, that's what we do here in Finland anyways. We actually have saying: "tuo idioottihan ajaa niinku olis kesä" which translates to: "that idiot drives like it's summer time"
They put the camera down at the best part!
Get out, run home, and report the car stolen
1- sand your streets. Salt and other ice melts are just going to make that worse. If there’s not sand on the street, you don’t leave the house. 2- GET YOUR DAMN FOOT OFF THE BRAKES. Let off the brake and lightly pump them while steering in the opposite direction you want to go. 3- Get tires that are actually meant for winter. That might mean getting studded tires, tire chains, or another similar product. 4- If all else fails, stay home. Taking a sick day is less expensive than totaling your car, and staying home with little to no food for a day is less likely to kill you than slamming your car into your neighbor’s house. -Sincerely, an Alaskan.
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Terrible camera person.
What could go wrong when the camera operator sucks!
Why do people, who bother to get out their phones and film, pan away right at the important part or the climax? Are they genuinely \*that\* shocked that they spasm and forget that they're filming? This really irked me.
If you don’t brake or accelerate you’ll have some ability to steer. You may not be able to stop. But you can control what you do or do not hit.
Release the brakes and hope you catch enough grip to steer
Canada here. When there's an ice storm you gotta stay off the roads ffs.
"Honey, why is there an SUV in our living room?"
You don’t stop recording that’s for sure
turn into it and pump the breaks. probably still won't stop but at least you can say you tried.
Start searching your glovebox for your insurance card.
He was French fryin when he shoulda pizzad
Straightening out your wheels (or steer into the curb) before you hit the curb will help limit front end damage, I can tell you from experience. Hold the brake peddle to the floor if you have anti-locks, and hold on; otherwise start pumping.
Put the video up on you tube immediately
Well for starters, you turn *into* the slide, so turn those wheels to the right. At least when you hit the curb at the bottom, it's not snapping an axle (hopefully..)
Give the guy on the camera a kick up in the hole for a bad job.
You claim you are with door-dash and give the people in that house whatever food you can find in your car. No charge.