More than 100,000 people are injured in collisions involving a driver who ignored a red light.
The video after compiles a number of incidents in New Jersey involving inattentive or downright stupid drivers. Some of the clips feature near misses, while others involve scary collisions. Remember to heed the traffic signal the next time you're behind the wheel.
Water is a pretty amazing substance. It coats our planet and makes up the vast majority of our bodies. But in all seriousness, water is not to be messed with. Whether leaking into your basement, sweeping away cars in a flash flood, or unleashing hell in the form of a tsunami, water's capacity for violence and disaster is as great as anything dreamed up by man.
Enough with the preamble. Combine water's devastating power with some heavy machinery and a really awful quality camcorder and you get the priceless video. Next, how about taking bath with the same method...
We've always been a little curious about what our favorite video game characters get up to after the story comes to close. Street Fighter's Ryu has apparently fallen on hard times and been forced to take up a job at the local scrap yard. Either that, or the next installment of the fighting franchise will feature a host of menacing compacts for our hero to battle.
The video features one very determined martial artist as he takes out some pent-up aggression on an otherwise innocent four-door. There's an appropriate amount of carnage as the fighter proceeds to dismantle the vehicle with nothing but his boundless fury and a fancy headband.
We're guessing that he had some off-camera assistance with some of the vehicle's components, but that doesn't necessarily lessen the entertainment value. We can all use a little Rage Against the Machine to get through the week.
Fiat Coupe with a whopping 1,000 horsepower. That's one a hell of extreme mod.
So how'd they do it? Well, for starters they scrapped the stock engine and shoehorned in the twin-turbo V6 from the Mitsubishi 300GT VR-4. With its original 24 valves and dual overhead cams, the Diamond Star engine never produced more than 300 horsepower in stock form. So the tuner performed some undisclosed magic on it and boosted the output up over three times its stock figure.
Also squeezed into the Mitsu's advanced all-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering system in there. Because as bonkers as 1,000 horsepower is by any account, trying to keep that much twist on the straight and narrow when it's just driving the front wheels would be a nightmare. This, on the other hand, is clearly deam come true.
We've all done it before. The light is red, so you stop at first but then proceed as soon as traffic clears. But what you about to see in the video below is unbelievable. For me, this is the first time I ever saw one.
Usually, once you're committed, it's too late already. Well, it's too late for most of us, but apparently not everyone, especially the driver in the video. You always can revert back as long you are committed for redemption.
Say you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery and no way to roll-start your vehicle. What do you do? If you happen to have enough rope lying around (or belts, for that matter), you can conceivably lift the drive axles, wrap the rope around a tire and pull with all of your might with the transmission in gear and the ignition on. The motion should be enough to turn the engine over and start the combustion cycle.
A few safety precautions here. First, make well sure that you can release the rope as soon as the engine fires, or you'll quickly be introduced to the front fender well. Second, don't waste your effort on an automatic. Finally, be warned that it's going to take a significantly larger amount of effort (thanks, compression!) for any vehicle with more than four cylinders.
Although I find this trick is quite handy, I do believe pushing and engaged a gear is more practical. At least for manual transmission car.
