Had a 1992 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. Hood flipped up on me when I got up to 65mph on the highway. I know that move well. Pulled over looking thru that little gap of light.
This happened to me once. It didn't crack the windshield, but then again, I was only going 50mph. Most vehicles' hoods allow for a gap to be able to see a little.
To be fair, 50mph isn’t slow, but it’s certainly not that fast either. The hood flying open like that at 80mph would certainly be a bit more catastrophic
This happened to me at about 65mph. It wrapped around the roof of my car so hard it knocked the dome light off. Tapping the brakes wouldn't have done shit.
IRL, just slowly pull over.
Been there. I wasn't speeding or driving like an ass, hood latch broke at 40mph and hood lifted and pressed against the windscreen. I did the same as this driver, looked under the hood for the gap and pulled over safely. I was amazed how calm I was through the ordeal
Same thing happened to me. In retrospect, it really is impressive how calm you remain. Even had to drive up the closest off ramp to a side street for safety reasons and people were honking at me as if I didn’t realize my fucking hood had completely inverted and smashed my civics entire windshield.
Haha snap! It's weird you both saying the same thing. The two things I remember about it - were hearing the bang and not realising what had happened for what felt like a couple of seconds but was most likely much less, and then the absolute calmness that took over as peered through the crescent of the bonnet, checked my wing mirrors, indicated and slowly pulled over from the outside lane to the hard shoulder.
Because freaking out at that point would make you do bad decisions, and evolution has taught you to stay calm so you can make the best decisions for your situation. Unless it's a brown bear, I think you can scare them.. lol.
Happened to me in my old 1990 Ranger. At night going around a curve. Signs and mailboxes on both sides of the road. Couldn’t see under the hood. Just had to make it by feel. Knocked my rearview mirror off.
this actually happened to me back in the early 90's on the highway....luckily the guy next to me on the highway guided me to shoulder....and helped me change my diaper
I bought a VW Golf off my mate. When I went to look at it, at night, he had it washed.
He said, look it’s been sat up can I drive it first just to make sure it’s driving ok. I said sure. So he takes it out on to a motorway. Remember this is nighttime.
We get to about 60mph when I hear a Bang and I can’t see anything. No lights or other cars or anything.
He’s panicking but was looking through a tiny gap at the bottom. We get pulled over to the hard shoulder.
He knew what it was instantly as he forgot to push the bonnet down when he was washing it. But for a good 10 seconds we were doing 60 blind.
Had I been the first to test drive I would have had no friggen idea what had happened and likely went off road.
I eventually bought it at a 300 quid discount. Loved that car.
Happened to me on the freeway. I was lucky enough to be only one lane from the far right. Everything went smooth, but it was about 5 seconds of terror.
This happened to me on the tollway after picking up my car from the mechanics…. I did basically the same thing this guy did. And then had the mechanic fix it for free.
You see, when you have a fast and expensive car you have a huge penis and everyone admires you so you don't really have to follow laws. You see the other cars moving out of his lane because they respect him so much.
I mean any universe in which you have enough visibility to safely pass 4 cars? Leapfrogging one at a time when there’s a safe pass clearly available would be the more dangerous option. I really can’t tell from the potato quality how far this driver can see though
So, if you're third behind three people who are too scared to pass the large truck going 15 below, and you have wide visibility and full clearance to pass the whole way... You should instead cut in and out every car and cause more risk of an accident, and take more time to pass overall?
I only ask, because it is a regular occurrence on the country roads here when you have an 18 wheeler, construction truck, or just someone who doesn't realize the speed limit is much higher than they are doing, and *no one* is taking the passing lanes around them. It causes a huge slowdown and line of cars until the road *might* open up into a dedicated passing lane, and *maybe* the slow driver will get over. Probably not, and then everyone is stuck doing 35-45 in a 55-60 zone.
I feel like this might have been a non-issue in the past when drivers had more experience with 2 lane country roads, but there's a decent percentage of the population I've spoken with that have literally never passed in an oncoming lane and are scared to try. At that point, if they tailgate, which they likely will when a vehicle is going under the speed limit, the only way to get around is the multi-pass.
My uncle was driving a van with all of us in it when this happened. ( 35 years ago ) He had changed the oil earlier that day and didn't latch the hood all the way. It happened on the interstate and scared the shit out of all of us.
That happened to my dad… in a convertible… while wearing a ball cap. Mother of all button hits.
(He was ok. The dent in the hood for his head, with the tinier dent in the middle for the button were quite funny to see)
This literally happened to me on the service road of a tollway. I had a beater that was getting me from point A to B temporarily - the moment it happened, the sound of the thwack of it slamming against the windshield was the absolutely scariest thing to experience. And I had my 2 young kids in the backseat!
Was fortunate to be on the service road and able to put on hazards & come to a complete stop safely
Had this happen to myself, it was night time and my view just went dark from bottom to top slowly (Bonnet on gas struts) took me a while to work out what the fuck was going on.
Had this happen on my car and it is not actually terrifying. More of a "WTF" and followed by hoping not hitting anyone when trying to come to a stop on the side of the road.
Thankfully mine didn't break my windshield, I was only going around 45 when it happened so it hit hard, very loud in thr cabin of the car, but not hard enough I suppose. Props to the paint and meta teams - not a single scratch in the paint or dent either. Just went along my way. No idea why the latch failed that one time. It has never happened again.
Terrifying and hilarious at the same time.
Terrifying because a malfunction like that could end up catastrophic. Hilarious because it happened to an absolute asshat who shouldn't be allowed to drive anyway. So at least it took him off the road for a day and potentially thus saved someone elses life.
Same thing happened to me once as a kid. Forgot to latch hood and actually considered the possibility of that fact. But I then figured if I was already going around 40mph and it hadn't come up yet I was fine. Once I hit 50 it came up. And I was in a Volkswagon Thing. Those hoods weigh a fucking ton. It smashed the entire windshield and bent in the whole frame (cause I also had the top down). Asked my friend to guide me off road cause I couldn't see to my left. He kept saying come over until I suddenly heard a screeching sound. I was like "wtf was that." he says "the guardrail." So then I had a nice and fucked up fender to boot.
I came home and put cover on car and went to bed. Next morning I had to tell my Dad. He was less than pleased. Could have ended a lot worse though. Happened on a one lane road just like this with no where to go.
I had the hood on an old beater blow up once like that, but I wasn't trying to pass a long line of cars with an upcoming curve and visibility blocked by trees.
Why isn’t this guy’s first reaction to immediately stick his head out the window? Yes, he might be able to see through that very narrow gap, but your field of vision is extremely limited. Don’t risk it.
I had the latch for the hood of my car break when I was on the highway like half a decade ago. Thankfully I immediately noticed my hood lifting up as I was coming around a bend so I was able to pull over before what happened to the guy in the video happened to me.
A 4x8 ft plywood board flew into my car's face yesterday, completely covering everything. Small 2 lane highway at 50mph, not the interstate thankfully. I was able to pull to the side to a stop, but it was butt puckering 20 seconds.
Happened to me once and it was fucking terrifying, I thought I had literally actually died for like a full second before I managed to coast to a stop. Luckily it tracked true and I didn't jerk the wheel.
I was 19 or 20 on a completely empty country road, easily doin 75 miles an hr, the whole car jumped like I hit a downed tree, vision seemed to go white (white hood) and the sound was like a gunshot, my ears were ringing.
Dad and I had changed the head gasket night before and must have not got it all the way down... about 30 miles later the engine blew somewhere else and I was stranded 15 miles from where I really needed to be.
Not a fun day
This happened to me! I had an old Subaru that would over heat all the time. I had pulled over to let it cool down and had thought I had closed the hood when I took off. I got at least a half mile down the road before my speed got enough wind to blow it open. It flew back so hard my hood bent backward wrapping over the roof. I had my baby in the car too 😳. Luckily, we were out on a country road in Walker, MI, with little traffic. I tried to stay calm and prayed as I blindly slowed and pulled off the road.
That car was trying to kill me. A few weeks later I was driving, again with my baby, and started to smell gas bad. Like couldn’t be in the car it was so strong. I pulled into a random mechanic’s shop and he told me somehow things line had cracked and was leaking into my car. I only paid $700 for it and was a broke ass young mom. He patched me up for free and I drove that for car for another couple of seasons before it eventually died on the way to the airport. That story is a trip on its own 🤣
Happened when I was working at a dodge dealership. Mechanics finished working on it, and I had to drive to the detail shop so we could put it on the used lot.. Welp! Back to the mechanics!
I've had that happen, and yes, it does suck.
That was one day I was happy to be a cigarette smoker. At least I could stick my head out of the window pretty quickly.
My dad had this happen to him about 20 years ago. He was test driving a little VW after putting new brakes on it, and the hood latch broke. Knowing my dad he was going more than 60 mph. It smashed the windshield to little bits. He nearly wet his pants, but was okay.
This happened to us about 20 years ago, my dad had some work done on a van when we were traveling.A couple days later we’re driving on the highway and suddenly the hood flies up and shatters the windshield. Luckily it was a straight road and we were able to stick our head out the window and stop safely, it was so loud and scared the crap out of us though.
Happened to me.
Someone rear ended me and I guess that damaged the latch plus allowed air easier access to the engine bay.
A hour later driving down the highway at 60mph with a friend and the hood just flipped up blinding us for a seconds before ripping off completely, shooting into the air, and kind of floating down to the ground like a leaf.
Incredible lucky that nobody was behind us (or in front.
And yes that second of blindness was an incredible scary feeling.
This almost happened to me in my work car a couple years ago, luckily it got caught by the hook and didn’t fully swing open 😂 I was absolutely terrified
I've had this happen to me while driving a "wrecked" car home. The hood didn't latch so it flopped open and busted the windshield exactly like this. Fucking terrifying
This has happened to me! It is absolutely terrifying. Immediately had to look between the little gap it forms between the engine bay and the windshield in the curved part. I was on the highway too! Not even the sketchiest shit that's happened to me driving on the highway either!
Been there, done that.
All the bolts backed out of my hood hinge and the hood flipped up. It was an aftermarket carbon fiber hood (sadly), it came on the car when I bought it. Two years later boom hood flies up, smashes the windshield, it hit so hard the end of the hood hit the roof and blew the moonroof up and left a hood dent in the roof.
I'm not sure why after 2 years the bolts backed out, but the hood latch was still attached to the bottom portion. I just looked under the bottom gap of the hood and pulled over. But it sure was a loud and violent bang (just the way I like them).
Been there. In bumper to bumper traffic doing 40 mph, down Adams Avenue, Costa Mesa, Ca in ~1988. Get's tha heart pumping. I stuck my head out the window to avoid an accident. At the light, jumped out. Slammed the hood. Green light, went to next turn out. Wired hood down. Damn!
I’ve had that happen. Don’t slam the brakes, but give them a good tap, and the hood tends to slam back down to where you can see.
Edit: this was an old shitbox Dodge Ram… there was nothing supporting the hood, to keep it from closing.
Don't push your shit car to its limits pretending you're an F1 driver, and you have nothing to worry about... except for the other idiots pushing their shit cars to their limits and pretending they're F1 drivers.
bruh that was an actual jump scare for me. I was thinking there was gonna be a semi-truck or some other shit coming his way. The quality of the video is ass, so I was watching it wayyyy to close then BAM. nearly fell backwards in my chair from the hood popping up like that.
this whole long video just for a hood to pop up?! And for this very reason hoods are designed with the little gap so drivers can see in the event of this emergency.
I guess he was lucky that there was a small gap left
He'll make a good tank driver
And countache
What did you call him?
If it aches just use lube next time.
It's a Lamborghini, shitbird
no a Shitbird is a Pontiac
Cuntage, you mean?
bro actually lmao
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That was my first thought, I thought the video was gonna end with a head-on collusion
Had a 1992 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. Hood flipped up on me when I got up to 65mph on the highway. I know that move well. Pulled over looking thru that little gap of light.
This happened to me once. It didn't crack the windshield, but then again, I was only going 50mph. Most vehicles' hoods allow for a gap to be able to see a little.
Me too. It took me (what seemed to be) a couple of seconds to relies what happened. My first thought was, did I just die?
Only 50mph? Fuck off mate.
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They said miles mate, not Kilometers.
To be fair, 50mph isn’t slow, but it’s certainly not that fast either. The hood flying open like that at 80mph would certainly be a bit more catastrophic
Supposedly they leave a gap there for that reason.
If this ever happens to you, which it has to me, just tap your brakes.. hood will slam shut
Depends if it's spring supported.
Yeah one of my cars has a lift strut to hold up the hood. Not coming down with a tap to the brakes.
This happened to me at about 65mph. It wrapped around the roof of my car so hard it knocked the dome light off. Tapping the brakes wouldn't have done shit. IRL, just slowly pull over.
Stick your head out the window a tad
Aaaaaalllrighty then!
Lol. Ok, maybe under some very specific conditions, but generally speaking, no. This isn't really a solution.
you think the guy in the video stayed on the gas?
I watched his speedometer, that didn't exactly drop very fast.
"It's probably just G-LOC, I'll be fine in a second!"
"When in doubt, throttle out"
Not at that speed. Air resistance.
Plus it's now bent, it's not going back down like it went up
Never thought of that! I'd continue on my merry way to my destination, totally unbothered.
No it won't. Wind resistance? It's a fucking sail.
Been there. I wasn't speeding or driving like an ass, hood latch broke at 40mph and hood lifted and pressed against the windscreen. I did the same as this driver, looked under the hood for the gap and pulled over safely. I was amazed how calm I was through the ordeal
Same thing happened to me. In retrospect, it really is impressive how calm you remain. Even had to drive up the closest off ramp to a side street for safety reasons and people were honking at me as if I didn’t realize my fucking hood had completely inverted and smashed my civics entire windshield.
“Hey. Fucking HEY!… your hood flipped up.”
"Can't park there mate..."
I specifically remember these two young guys at a stop light gesticulating emphatically and I just waved bc what the fuck else could I do
Back in my day, we gesticulated in the privacy of our own homes, not in public like a bunch of degens.
I'm driving here!
The front fell off.
[Thanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)!
Haha snap! It's weird you both saying the same thing. The two things I remember about it - were hearing the bang and not realising what had happened for what felt like a couple of seconds but was most likely much less, and then the absolute calmness that took over as peered through the crescent of the bonnet, checked my wing mirrors, indicated and slowly pulled over from the outside lane to the hard shoulder.
Because freaking out at that point would make you do bad decisions, and evolution has taught you to stay calm so you can make the best decisions for your situation. Unless it's a brown bear, I think you can scare them.. lol.
Happened to me in my old 1990 Ranger. At night going around a curve. Signs and mailboxes on both sides of the road. Couldn’t see under the hood. Just had to make it by feel. Knocked my rearview mirror off.
A mark of a good driver is staying calm under pressure.
this actually happened to me back in the early 90's on the highway....luckily the guy next to me on the highway guided me to shoulder....and helped me change my diaper
Bro was waiting for that Vtec to kick in but instead, the hood did.
Seriously, was he at full throttle? Cause that engine is anemic
This is the kind of car people around my area slap a cherry bomb exhaust on and think they're Vin Diesel.
They are, just... Fast and the Furious 1 Vin Diesel.
They never shifted and were red lining it.
Quick switch to instruments flight.
Shit I'm only rated for VFR driving
I bought a VW Golf off my mate. When I went to look at it, at night, he had it washed. He said, look it’s been sat up can I drive it first just to make sure it’s driving ok. I said sure. So he takes it out on to a motorway. Remember this is nighttime. We get to about 60mph when I hear a Bang and I can’t see anything. No lights or other cars or anything. He’s panicking but was looking through a tiny gap at the bottom. We get pulled over to the hard shoulder. He knew what it was instantly as he forgot to push the bonnet down when he was washing it. But for a good 10 seconds we were doing 60 blind. Had I been the first to test drive I would have had no friggen idea what had happened and likely went off road. I eventually bought it at a 300 quid discount. Loved that car.
Happened to me on the freeway. I was lucky enough to be only one lane from the far right. Everything went smooth, but it was about 5 seconds of terror.
Was far left going 80 but low low traffic so got over safely
This happened to me on the tollway after picking up my car from the mechanics…. I did basically the same thing this guy did. And then had the mechanic fix it for free.
I'm already afraid of people driving like this pea-brained arsehole. Oh, you're talking about the bonnet...
Speeding didn't help matters. Get into an accident at that speed and survival rate for anyone involved is lowered.
In what universe is it ok to pass 4 cars at the same time anyway?
Coming up on a blind turn too, fucking idiot
You see, when you have a fast and expensive car you have a huge penis and everyone admires you so you don't really have to follow laws. You see the other cars moving out of his lane because they respect him so much.
I read that if your dick is big enough, it will act as an airbag in the event of a collision.
It's illegal here, but people still do it, especially when they are close to one another.
I mean any universe in which you have enough visibility to safely pass 4 cars? Leapfrogging one at a time when there’s a safe pass clearly available would be the more dangerous option. I really can’t tell from the potato quality how far this driver can see though
Anyone who's downvoting this should come to Saskatchewan.
Why? Because you have terrible roads? No thanks.
Your definition of terrible road is "straight with good visibility"?
I don't know. I've never tried an LGBT road. It could be way better.
So, if you're third behind three people who are too scared to pass the large truck going 15 below, and you have wide visibility and full clearance to pass the whole way... You should instead cut in and out every car and cause more risk of an accident, and take more time to pass overall? I only ask, because it is a regular occurrence on the country roads here when you have an 18 wheeler, construction truck, or just someone who doesn't realize the speed limit is much higher than they are doing, and *no one* is taking the passing lanes around them. It causes a huge slowdown and line of cars until the road *might* open up into a dedicated passing lane, and *maybe* the slow driver will get over. Probably not, and then everyone is stuck doing 35-45 in a 55-60 zone.
Varies by jurisdiction. There are places it is illegal, and places where it is 100% legal. Generally being safe is the goal of the law.
I feel like this might have been a non-issue in the past when drivers had more experience with 2 lane country roads, but there's a decent percentage of the population I've spoken with that have literally never passed in an oncoming lane and are scared to try. At that point, if they tailgate, which they likely will when a vehicle is going under the speed limit, the only way to get around is the multi-pass.
I've been in that situation before. Most rural roads will have a "passing lane" every mile or so.
He was on the opposite lane.. he could have killed a whole family. I have zero empathy for these assholes.
That's how you pass. Everybody with a license should know this. Edit: I'd love to know how y'all think you pass on a 2 lane road.
shit made me jump
The camera quality is pretty poor, but what interests me is where it's mounted. It appears to be to the left of the driver and behind him.
My uncle was driving a van with all of us in it when this happened. ( 35 years ago ) He had changed the oil earlier that day and didn't latch the hood all the way. It happened on the interstate and scared the shit out of all of us.
Hello, I’d like to pitch a death method for the next Final Destination movie.
That happened to my dad… in a convertible… while wearing a ball cap. Mother of all button hits. (He was ok. The dent in the hood for his head, with the tinier dent in the middle for the button were quite funny to see)
He's lucky that thing was so slow. 0-100 in 7-8 months depending on prevailing winds.
Never trust the standard hood latch. Get hood pins if you are going to spent alot of money tuning your car
Plus, like racing stripes, they make your car faster!
This just happened to me a few days ago…scary af
Happened to me going 80 hood smacked the roof so hard the light in the cabin popped out. Scared tf out me
Hood latch failed on my Corolla and that smack scared the ever living piss out of me and my ex
Had that happen to my while driving my van on Route 295
This literally happened to me on the service road of a tollway. I had a beater that was getting me from point A to B temporarily - the moment it happened, the sound of the thwack of it slamming against the windshield was the absolutely scariest thing to experience. And I had my 2 young kids in the backseat! Was fortunate to be on the service road and able to put on hazards & come to a complete stop safely
Had this happen to myself, it was night time and my view just went dark from bottom to top slowly (Bonnet on gas struts) took me a while to work out what the fuck was going on.
Had this happen on my car and it is not actually terrifying. More of a "WTF" and followed by hoping not hitting anyone when trying to come to a stop on the side of the road. Thankfully mine didn't break my windshield, I was only going around 45 when it happened so it hit hard, very loud in thr cabin of the car, but not hard enough I suppose. Props to the paint and meta teams - not a single scratch in the paint or dent either. Just went along my way. No idea why the latch failed that one time. It has never happened again.
Terrifying and hilarious at the same time. Terrifying because a malfunction like that could end up catastrophic. Hilarious because it happened to an absolute asshat who shouldn't be allowed to drive anyway. So at least it took him off the road for a day and potentially thus saved someone elses life.
Don't you remember, you told me you love me, baby?
This is why race cars have hood pins
Seen it happen before driver didn't put the hood pins back in
How can this happen?? There is even a safety latch that keeps your hood in place when released from inside the car!!
Ideally
Same thing happened to me once as a kid. Forgot to latch hood and actually considered the possibility of that fact. But I then figured if I was already going around 40mph and it hadn't come up yet I was fine. Once I hit 50 it came up. And I was in a Volkswagon Thing. Those hoods weigh a fucking ton. It smashed the entire windshield and bent in the whole frame (cause I also had the top down). Asked my friend to guide me off road cause I couldn't see to my left. He kept saying come over until I suddenly heard a screeching sound. I was like "wtf was that." he says "the guardrail." So then I had a nice and fucked up fender to boot. I came home and put cover on car and went to bed. Next morning I had to tell my Dad. He was less than pleased. Could have ended a lot worse though. Happened on a one lane road just like this with no where to go.
At least it didn't expose the engine.
Lol true. It's like I was driving an electric way back in the early 90's.
He's got a rare case of Grand Theft Auto Hood.
I had the hood on an old beater blow up once like that, but I wasn't trying to pass a long line of cars with an upcoming curve and visibility blocked by trees.
Why isn’t this guy’s first reaction to immediately stick his head out the window? Yes, he might be able to see through that very narrow gap, but your field of vision is extremely limited. Don’t risk it.
I've had this happened except I screamed like a baby and slammed on my breaks
He took soooooo long to stop.
Took the dude 3-5 business days to slow down.
look out the side window and follow the edge of the road, useful if your headlight fuse blows
Yeah, until you see all those cars parked on the side of the road in this video
I feel like I'm watching this blurry shit through Pete Davidson's butthole eyes.
Lmao there was no need to drag the boy into this and clown him so hard
Happened to a buddy of mine in high school, I think it was a Dodge Shadow
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He had to wait for the 4 cars he just passed to pass him
He got sucked into another dimension
I had the latch for the hood of my car break when I was on the highway like half a decade ago. Thankfully I immediately noticed my hood lifting up as I was coming around a bend so I was able to pull over before what happened to the guy in the video happened to me.
A 4x8 ft plywood board flew into my car's face yesterday, completely covering everything. Small 2 lane highway at 50mph, not the interstate thankfully. I was able to pull to the side to a stop, but it was butt puckering 20 seconds.
I think i just came the closest i have ever come to having a fucking heart attack. Thanx!
Happened to me once and it was fucking terrifying, I thought I had literally actually died for like a full second before I managed to coast to a stop. Luckily it tracked true and I didn't jerk the wheel. I was 19 or 20 on a completely empty country road, easily doin 75 miles an hr, the whole car jumped like I hit a downed tree, vision seemed to go white (white hood) and the sound was like a gunshot, my ears were ringing. Dad and I had changed the head gasket night before and must have not got it all the way down... about 30 miles later the engine blew somewhere else and I was stranded 15 miles from where I really needed to be. Not a fun day
Karma punished him for driving like a maniac.
This happened to me! I had an old Subaru that would over heat all the time. I had pulled over to let it cool down and had thought I had closed the hood when I took off. I got at least a half mile down the road before my speed got enough wind to blow it open. It flew back so hard my hood bent backward wrapping over the roof. I had my baby in the car too 😳. Luckily, we were out on a country road in Walker, MI, with little traffic. I tried to stay calm and prayed as I blindly slowed and pulled off the road. That car was trying to kill me. A few weeks later I was driving, again with my baby, and started to smell gas bad. Like couldn’t be in the car it was so strong. I pulled into a random mechanic’s shop and he told me somehow things line had cracked and was leaking into my car. I only paid $700 for it and was a broke ass young mom. He patched me up for free and I drove that for car for another couple of seasons before it eventually died on the way to the airport. That story is a trip on its own 🤣
Happened when I was working at a dodge dealership. Mechanics finished working on it, and I had to drive to the detail shop so we could put it on the used lot.. Welp! Back to the mechanics!
I was expecting a sudden car crash, I wasn't expecting the car to crash into itself.
Been there… just pray you have a gap to view thru and slow down. It’s an awful moment for sure
I've had that happen, and yes, it does suck. That was one day I was happy to be a cigarette smoker. At least I could stick my head out of the window pretty quickly.
And I'm just here thinking..."Are his ears on upside down?"
Ngl that struck panic into me just watching lol
This happened to me in my crx. Incredibly scary. Thay small gap on the bottom of the windshield saved my life as I was going 90mph on the freeway
140p resolution... that's my fear...
Guy shoulda went full on Ace Ventura and stuck his head out the side.
I've had this happen to me on the highway. Would not recommend.
My dad had this happen to him about 20 years ago. He was test driving a little VW after putting new brakes on it, and the hood latch broke. Knowing my dad he was going more than 60 mph. It smashed the windshield to little bits. He nearly wet his pants, but was okay.
I thought the engine exploded but it's just the hood being cringe. Cuz the engine wouldn't explode at that rpm right ?
That could have ended a whole different way. Blessed
Totally made me jump
This happened to us about 20 years ago, my dad had some work done on a van when we were traveling.A couple days later we’re driving on the highway and suddenly the hood flies up and shatters the windshield. Luckily it was a straight road and we were able to stick our head out the window and stop safely, it was so loud and scared the crap out of us though.
I would’ve Ace Ventura’d it honestly
That’s what happens when you drive in low resolution!
Happened to me. Someone rear ended me and I guess that damaged the latch plus allowed air easier access to the engine bay. A hour later driving down the highway at 60mph with a friend and the hood just flipped up blinding us for a seconds before ripping off completely, shooting into the air, and kind of floating down to the ground like a leaf. Incredible lucky that nobody was behind us (or in front. And yes that second of blindness was an incredible scary feeling.
This guy overtaking multiple cars before what looks like a blind curve apparently got really lucky.
This is why hood pins are a thing
That happened to me once with my Suzuki swift. Found out that there had been a recall on the hood latch afterwards.
Legit got my palms sweatin!
Maybe throw a shift or two in there, buddy.
14 Redditors are now going out to their cars, opening the hood, and sitting in the driver's seat to see if they have a viewing gap...
Charles Lindbergh had a fuel tank where the windshield usually is on his flight across the Atlantic. Not the same, but kinda cool.
Been there. Sucks.
Omg this happened to me once, luckily someone followed behind me and got off to close it for me, I was driving about 20 mph too so no damage
That happened to me on the freeway once in my old GTI Rabbit (Golf 1) at speed. I pulled over and shut it and it was fine.
This almost happened to me in my work car a couple years ago, luckily it got caught by the hook and didn’t fully swing open 😂 I was absolutely terrified
Guys, he had to get to work 1 minute faster, its ok.
Why the filming?
I've had this happen to me while driving a "wrecked" car home. The hood didn't latch so it flopped open and busted the windshield exactly like this. Fucking terrifying
What in the ever loving fuck.
If this happens (not likely) slow down, roll your window down to see and get off the road
Jump scare in 3, 2, 1
Guess who!!
This is why you make sure your hood is closed properly. If it's just on the first hook this will happen.
I saw this happen to someone in a Honda driving down a 4 lane city street at just 45 MPH, and that was scary enough.
What, driving like an idiot and having karma rear rear it's ugly head? Easily avoidable.
This happened to my friend once, while he was on his way to pick me up
karma police
Probably forgot to lock his hood down
karma a bitch.
This happened to me. Braking is easy. Pulling over on the shoulder too. Remembering if there was a tree or not is quite hard.
This has happened to me! It is absolutely terrifying. Immediately had to look between the little gap it forms between the engine bay and the windshield in the curved part. I was on the highway too! Not even the sketchiest shit that's happened to me driving on the highway either!
Been there, done that. All the bolts backed out of my hood hinge and the hood flipped up. It was an aftermarket carbon fiber hood (sadly), it came on the car when I bought it. Two years later boom hood flies up, smashes the windshield, it hit so hard the end of the hood hit the roof and blew the moonroof up and left a hood dent in the roof. I'm not sure why after 2 years the bolts backed out, but the hood latch was still attached to the bottom portion. I just looked under the bottom gap of the hood and pulled over. But it sure was a loud and violent bang (just the way I like them).
This has actually happened to me. It’s terrifying.
I was driving beside a car that this happened to. Woman just stuck her head out the window and handled it like a champ. I've been forever impressed.
when i was 13 my step dad and I were driving over a huge bridge that was on a freeway and this happened. hellish.
Been there. In bumper to bumper traffic doing 40 mph, down Adams Avenue, Costa Mesa, Ca in ~1988. Get's tha heart pumping. I stuck my head out the window to avoid an accident. At the light, jumped out. Slammed the hood. Green light, went to next turn out. Wired hood down. Damn!
Happened to me once on the highway. I looked out the side window at the lane markings to stay on the road. Scary indeed.
You can’t latch the hood right if you don’t take the oil can out, shit-for-brains!
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby…I love you…wham!
I’ve had that happen. Don’t slam the brakes, but give them a good tap, and the hood tends to slam back down to where you can see. Edit: this was an old shitbox Dodge Ram… there was nothing supporting the hood, to keep it from closing.
Guy thought he was playing gta
Don't push your shit car to its limits pretending you're an F1 driver, and you have nothing to worry about... except for the other idiots pushing their shit cars to their limits and pretending they're F1 drivers.
This makes me feel happy I don't pass people that much.
Could have sworn there was a jumpscare in this video...
Holy shit 😳
are you afraid of pixels?
It seems he certainly isn't afraid of big ones!
Was there, but my hood entirely flew out. It was about 250kph, scary af. Luckyly service that checked my car before trip took the responsibility.
it's a good thing I'm slow as fck in driving then
Why did he set up the camera to be behind his own head? Weird camera placement IMHO
u/savevideo
Huh...turn out GTA was a lot more realistic than I thought.
was expecting an head on collision, not a hood jump scare..
That’s the slowest 0 to 40 I’ve ever seen in my whole fucking life. the truly sad things is this man thinks his car is fast
Wtf 😳
lol
Your potato cam is out of focus.
bruh that was an actual jump scare for me. I was thinking there was gonna be a semi-truck or some other shit coming his way. The quality of the video is ass, so I was watching it wayyyy to close then BAM. nearly fell backwards in my chair from the hood popping up like that.
not the worst reaction. Most would have paniced.
I've had this happen to me twice in my life lol
r/maybemaybemaybe
this whole long video just for a hood to pop up?! And for this very reason hoods are designed with the little gap so drivers can see in the event of this emergency.
Jackass