Oh dear! what happens next?

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This came to my attention today, one of those, what happens next?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=249808876566485&id=100046121231893

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Oooops!

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…double oops

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Triple oops and you couldn’t make it up!! Seriously…

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Oh dear wondered where my wife got to yesterday.:rofl:

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Is that one of those self driving cars or did the driver just claim it was?

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I believe so.
He was in the kitchen, and the car went for a run without his say so.
Either that, or it was a badly timed Windaz 10 download patch.

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Whoops! No hill start brake assist and too much wellie! :crazy_face: Or, wrong gear selection, forward instead of reverse!! :anguished: :crazy_face:

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I think this topic should have been titled: ‘Driverless Cars - The Future?’

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They were expecting the wings to deploy, ok they didn’t quite have it lined up on the ramp for a take off either.:grimacing:

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If it was down to wrong gear selection, the driver must have the reactions of a Brontosaurus! Did the driver really intend to engage reverse gear, rev the engine to about 4000rpm and dump the clutch so close to the wall behind.

Mind you a lady driver did manage to damage about 7 cars in the staff car park of a company I used to work at with many witnesses. She selected the wrong gear and didn’t stop until the impact with the last car was severe enough and stopped her!

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Probably an Auto, and stamped too hard on the accelerator and panicked :grimacing:

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Its a Taycan, ie. electric vehicle. So no gear selection besides drive and reverse. Might be something to do with the car being on a hill and how the torque comes on.

Another Taycan, this time in Turkey. 0-180kph in 14s, caught the driver by surprise, and who couldn’t steer/slow for the rounadabout.

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Thanks! :+1: I’d been wondering what make/model of car it was. :thinking:

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Well we’re all in for some fun times if this is an example of how some people are coping with the power delivery of electric cars :grimacing:

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Wouldn’t it have some sort of Emergency Brake/Anti Collision system that would have kicked in just before the first collision or would this be a £5000 option on a Porsche?

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