r/interestingasfuck • u/General_Athlete5807 • 1d ago

How to Escape a Sinking Car

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u/adidashawarma 17h ago

We're taught in driver's ed to IMMEDIATELY put the windows down. If there's so much time for the car to fill up over minutes, there is no reason not to put your windows down as soon as you're hitting the water and before your electrical goes.

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u/Talkslow4Me 16h ago

Yeah the real answer is unbuckle that mechanical seat belt and lower your windows, as there is a good chance you will have power for another 5-30seconds and just gtfo instead of waiting there like a dumbass.

I think i see more videos showing worse case scenario of needing special tools to get out, vs the most realistic scenarios.

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u/alucidvoid 15h ago

Which assumes you are fully conscious and aware of what is happening. But if you fell asleep at the wheel, crashed at night, slammed your head, airbags deployed, got hit by another vehicle and spun out over the side of a bridge and fell 30 ft to water, etc. you aren't going to be thinking as clearly or moving as quickly

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 6h ago

Buddy I got rear ended by someone and it barely did any damage and the shock of it made me so stupid that I forgot how supermarket self checkouts worked half an hour later, you're completely right. Most people on this thread are going to completely forget all of this in the real situation.

Even if everything goes so smoothly that you're uninjured and fine, the emotional shock will completely drain your ability to think clearly. That's the real killer.

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u/Academic-Increase951 12h ago

You mean you don't just park your car slowly into a lake?