ITT: Close calls

>webm
holy fug that's spoopy

It was more scary in real life.
What you don´t realy see in the .webm is that the huge ass electric transformer hangs over the trailer a lot.

you suck at drawing desu

>driving nova on bald drag radials in a light mist
>normal 90* right turn
>rear end comes around
>cant correct enough because lol manual steering
>bump curb
>miraculously escape with no damage, except to that in my hindquarters

>can't correct enough because reacted too late/spaghetti arms
Ftfy -the front tires will want to follow the road direction (= counter steering if you're spinning) if you let them.

>Snowy roads
>New for me
>Very quiet road
>Haven't seen anybody in either direction for over an hour
>Want to make a turn to get to a resting place I passed by
>Fail the manouvre and end up in the snowed in ditch
>This is my life now
>5 mins later dude in pickup truck passes by and pulls me out of the ditch
>Next hour driving never see another driver again

I sure learned to never do that again, but is God real?

>is God real
if you have to ask that, then no, He isn't

I've never been sideways in that car, so I didn't know how to react to how the car reacts, I acknowledge it was my own ineptitude

>be a 16 year old baby who just got his license
>was normally driven into school/picked up by my dad every day since the bus route to my house was fucked
>dad had work to do at home one day and told me I needed to drive myself to school
>also during that time I was fucking obsessed with world of warcraft and played it all night every night, and usually just slept on the drive to school and during my first class
>probably had like 20 minutes of sleep the night before
>get in car
>???
>wake up parked in the school parking lot at like 2pm

I don't think I've ever gotten less than 6 hours of sleep a night since I did that. I was traumatized for like a week when I realized what I did.

>riding donorcycle on highway, rigt lane, ~75mph
>leave nice fat following distance in front because I ain’t dumb, yo
>Guy in big fuckoff van in other lane changes into mine without signaling and slams on brakes
>about 30 feet in front of me
>brake as hard as possible, front tire squealing and rear as well
>going to rear end him at 55+mph
Thisishowitends.rar
>make a snap judgement call
>release brakes
>veer left and miss the wing mirror of the van by about 1/2" on my right shoulder
>semi on left side of me doing 70+ about 1” away
>Manage to keep my composure and get back into left lane
>pull over about a mile up the road
>lay down on grass, listening to my heart beating against my rib cage like an enraged baboon
>takes 45 minutes for me to be able to stand up again

If you’re going to ride a motorcycle, take the MSF courses. The stuff I learned in them saved me that day.

>Rented E-class
>Go to meet up with dad for dinner the day before my flight
>It's 9 in the evening
>Go to take a long and curvy ramp onto the freeway
>One car milling about at 10 at the entrance, obviously lost
>Comes to an almost complete stop before going again
>Angrily start overtake him and put my foot down
>I didn't see the width of the ramp decreasing because dark outside
>Manage to pass with inches to spare
>tfw almost stuffed a Merc because I lost my cool for a moment

Remember people, stay calm and collected on the road

>bought first ever RWD car, a fox mustang
>practicing manual on gravel back roads by house to avoid people
>quickly learn the brakes aren't nearly as good as on my modern car
>try taking left turn at ~20 mph
>enter too fast and oversteer into a slight ditch
>fucked up my bumper and possibly snapped my sway bar links (At least I think thats how those got broken, I honestly can't remember if it was like that when I bought it)

Months later
>much more confident driving this POS
>scooting around the city
>sharp left turn coming up and I'm speeding like a retard
>begin braking, once again I dont brake enough because they're still not great
>oversteer around the corner
>this corner also just happened to be right in front of a gas station for city vehicles, which includes police vehicles
>the planets had aligned or something and none of them went after me

And thats how I learned why Mustang drivers get a bad rap

Good lesson here.

You should only try to drift in wide open spaces where you can't hit anything, parking lots and industrial areas work best for this. Or if you don't have such places, at least use shitty wheels and bumpers so it's no big deal if they get scratched. I learned this the hard way, I totaled my mom's FF shitbox because I tried to be dagumi on my local mountain pass

Let me guess; big dirty handbrakies?

>offramp there's a curve
>at the end there's a stop sign
>lots of people blow by it one day
>driving normally when a pathfinder blows past
>swerve erratically but narrowly miss him

i kinda wish i did hit him tbqh. i've been wanting a new car and i don't wanna put money in mine lol.

>raining hard after work
>steep curve on road exiting highway
>doing turn at 50mph instead of 25
>forget hydroplaning is a thing
>lose control of back end of car

Luckily managed to happen at the end of the curve so I had room to jet it without spinning out

Would likely be dead otherwise

>night driving in northeast texas countryside
>forest all around
>from the city so no idea what the fuck I'm doing
>GPS says "turn left"
>driving way too fast
>slide the fuck out and fall into a ditch
>redneck sees the dumb gook standing next to his toyota corolla in a ditch
>calls his cousin who brings his ram 2500 to pull me out
I gave him a $50 bill for the help

>road to my step dad's house in tenn. is kind of fun, really narrow road with lots of hairpins
>rx7 chan has absolutely shit tires but I'm driving much more conservative than I normally would
>come up on road, it's banked away slightly, leaves covering the road
>always though leaves on the roads was an initial D meme, not too many on the road
>light are stock and my brights don't work so I can only see about 50 feet in front of me, have to use google maps to guesstimate my cornering speeds
>come up and see a shitload of leaves on the road
>panic.rar
>start skidding
>not going to make it
>rip steering way the opposite way and try to do a kansei doriftito to keep from flying off the road
>N-NANI.webm
>it fucking works, I don't even spin out
>catch it about perfect and keep going
>everythingwentbetterthanexpected.mp4
>continue on feeling like a badass
This happened last night, wish I had recorded it.

>3 months after I got my Z33
>rainy night, ESC off, what could possibly happen
>want to accelerate, tires slip the entire way through gear 3 and 4, rear swinging
Didn't try anything on public roads after that so far.

>Be driving
>A few weeks after getting my license so I'm nervous
>going fine until someone starts approaching me a bit
>Don't like it at all
>Speed up a bit
>Realize fuck that's my turn
>Guy biking down the middle of the road it's rural so not much of a place for him to bike otherwise
>Whip in there like a colossal asshole thinking the bike guy was by
>Nearly hit him zipping around like a dick
>Heart racing as I continued on my journey now driving like a grandmother going to church

Was a wake up call not to be such a fucking pussy while driving. Was my closest call really most of the other ones were just me out being an idiot not nearly hitting a person.

You need these

I'm a new driver and want to go into the mountains (instead of taking the freeway, I need to work on taking corners) and you guys are scaring me.
Anything I should know? I have pretty good technique every where else I think, sometimes I just go around a corner too fast and the tires will squeal? Any advice? I brake before the corner usually.

Traffic is pretty light due to holidays
Some faggots hogging the left lanes (1 and 2)
Split lanes past them at Mach 10
Hit a bump on the crappy LA freeways and probably go a bit airborne
Front end feels light and handlebars get a speed wobble
Oh fuck, that could've been bad.
Proceed to hit 110 mph the rest of the way to work

Hypothetically when I got my first car I watched a lot of shit on YouTube about drifting and power sliding and shit like that.

I hypothetically didn’t have insurance cash, and I was just focusing on paying this hypothetical car off.

I would, hypothetically, take this car out around our subdivision at 11:00-12:00 at night and slam around corners trying to lose traction.

Well, when you do that, you probably would have to take some seriously wife corners and try to fishtail it to do that.
But I wouldn’t know.

Well, one hypothetical night I took that corner around a designated blind corner and straight at someones headlights because they had parked themselves in front of their home.

I hypothetically was driving 50 in a 25 and drifting around a corner and then panicked and wound up with all four wheels in the corner houses front lawn.

Then, hypothetically that uninsured car backed up and resumed its journey home to never drift on a street again.
Well.
Not blind corners and not anything that couldn’t be recovered from.

And donuts were sort of the table.

yesterday on the drive home (unlit, thin two way roads) TWO cars almost crashed into me head on trying to overtake around corners. Fucking hate driving in the UK countryside, my car has POS 1980s brakes too so I know I WILL die if anyone makes a stupid mistake around me.

PL lol lol lol l on

swap them out with a 90's ford(mazda) brakes, it shouldn't be too hard since the size numbers and stuff didn't change much

Wow is the shit, so hyped for classic.

Just mind the signs. Go the speed limit until you see a sign indicating turning speed. Be going that speed before the turn. You can go quite a bit faster than that once you have experience and a feel for the car. But until you are confident, go the speed indicated on the signs. Don't brake going into a turn if you can help it, that can actually decrease traction
Just anticipate what speed you need to be at beforehand

Mid west Kanata?

Your instructor sounds like a cool guy

>200° dirt turn
>been practicing doing u-turns
>figure fuggit despite numerous problems in the turn in the past with understeer.
>throw it hard I to the turn and lay on the throttle.
>By Allah, the front sticks perfectly
>but the rear is coming around way too fast
>it was at that moment, I knew I fucked up
>no chance of powering out, so I just let off the throttle and let it go
>end up lost the front as well and the vehicle slides perfectly sideways
>doesn't slide far, but cane way too close to hitting a rock wall
>vehicle comes to a full stop and I just lay into the throttle around the opposite direction turn that immediately follows to hide my embarrassment
>no one saw at least