And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You know, I never thought that ramped brick wall around the center of that roundabout might have been put there deliberately just to make cars go flying. If they wanted to stop cars, they could have made vertical walls.
May also have been intended to reduce certain kinds of injuries—while the airborne car will land eventually, a landing is (potentially) less likely to cause the same kind of head-snap, spinal injuries like a straight-on impact would.
I don't know for a fact that that is the purpose of the design, but it seems to make sense.
You know, I never thought that ramped brick wall around the center of that roundabout might have been put there deliberately just to make cars go flying. If they wanted to stop cars, they could have made vertical walls.
ReplyDeleteMay also have been intended to reduce certain kinds of injuries—while the airborne car will land eventually, a landing is (potentially) less likely to cause the same kind of head-snap, spinal injuries like a straight-on impact would.
DeleteI don't know for a fact that that is the purpose of the design, but it seems to make sense.
That rivals some of Evel’s best jumps....
ReplyDeleteTop floor of the parking garage?
ReplyDeleteis that a bit 'enhanced'?....I can't imagine he got to that height
ReplyDeleteExhibit "A" in "Reasons Not to Text While Driving."
ReplyDeletemust be a thing - here's another one from Long Beach. The other one is from Poland
ReplyDeleteWas a passenger of six in one of these that the driver did the same thing - was a few years back.
ReplyDeleteDidn't notice any flying except for the exclamations of the passengers.
What the hell is a roundabout doing in San Antonio anyway!?
Just watch Russian crash videos. I've seen this sort of crash multiple times, and yes, they get some remarkable air.
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