Can you think of anything worse than crashing your car at 100 MPH?
I can. How about crashing your rare Tesla Roaster?
A Tesla dealer and a potential customer were apparently doing 100 MPH during a test drive when they hit….something. The end result is what you see and as horrible as it looks, both men survived the crash. They’re quite lucky, considering the customer was thrown from the car.
Take a peek at this video of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Who doesn’t love messing with an amusement park’s rides to make massacres occur at will? In Tycoon 2, I used to build the free fall rides real short, but make it launch at high speeds. It was a death trap ride I named “Suicide Machine“. This video shows a roller coaster track being built into a pedestrian walkway. Hilarity ensues as most of the victims walk away from the “accident”. Much more fun than building your own mini coaster kit.
Your eyes do not deceive you, dear readers. Some jackass actually let his 94-year-old mother (meaning she was born in 1914, mind you) ride an ATV around on his property. Eventually, she ran his ass over. From the article:
Smith was working with his mother, Mary Smith, around 12:30 p.m. at the property about 6 miles north of Howell, police said.
Ronald Smith was opening a gate when his mother apparently lost control of the Kubota RTV 900 utility vehicle she was riding and hit the gate, then caromed off the gate and struck her son.
He was trapped underneath the vehicle, police said.
Police said Mary Smith tried to get the vehicle off her son, but couldn’t.
You’re telling me a woman a century old couldn’t lift an ATV up? What a surprise. Maybe granny should have gotten a bitchin’ angle-cutter and sliced the vehicle in half. The man who died, Ron Smith, was pronounced dead at the scene. Sounds like a terrible Mother’s Day.
When you wake up from a coma 28 days after a car accident, it might be a little difficult to remember all the details for your insurance claim. Did the raging drunken teenager hit or did you hit the innocent high schooler? Those little details could really change the amount of insurance money you receive. That’s where the Roadbox Accident Recorder comes in.
This video camera is mounted near your rearview mirror, just like those cameras in the funny cop videos (this doesn’t allow you to drive like a cop now). The built-in speed and acceleration monitors determine when there has been an accident and store the 14 seconds prior to the “accidentâ€? and 6 seconds after. Now you have 20 seconds of video footage of the front of your car. What happens if you got side-swiped or rear-ended? Well than your Roadbox investment was worthless. You could of course buy 4 of these for all sides of your car, but then you’d look like an over-cautious wuss, and that doesn’t help when you’re trying to improve your “geekyâ€? image. This is a pretty cool idea, but if you saw that you were the one at fault on the tape, would you show the insurance agents? — Nick Rice
PLK to showcase driving recorder RoadBox [AVING USA, via OhGizmo!]
