Cars
Driving your car unprepared through deep water is not advisable, unless it’s your only option. Then it’s still just as stupid and risky, but at least you have the excuse of not having had a choice. Modern cars are do not like water at all, either in their engine, exhaust or electronics.
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Cars
How Safe Is Wading In Your Modern Car?
Driving your car unprepared through deep water is not advisable, unless it’s your only option. Then it’s still just as stupid and risky, but at least you have the excuse of not having had a choice. Modern cars are do not like water at all, either in their engine, exhaust or electronics.
Read more »
- Cr Draws Attention To Increasingly Frequent Problem Of Complicated Car Controls
Somewhere in the time frame between the late 1990s and the modern day, most automakers have let the idea that interior controls need to first be safe, easy to use, then ergonomically placed away from them. The most extreme case of this seen on a modern...
- Dutch Rider Hits A Sea Of Water On Highway [nsfw]
It's no secret that motorcycles and water don't mix well and that riders must always be extra diligent during and after a rainstorm. Even then, though, one can still be caught by surprise as was the case with this Dutch motorcyclist when he crossed...
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If there is a next time, the men seen in this video footage trying to make their lives easier by bringing a truck into the water in order to load it with some sort of (assumingly empty) tanks from a boat, may want to try a different approach. On the...
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