"The $400,000+ Lamborghini Aventador destroyed dramatically at the hands of a midsize sedan in Brooklyn this weekend conveniently did so in front of a couple of cameras. While this is terrible carnage, it does show off how modern safety equipment is supposed to work."
Lamborghini Aventador Mill Basin Accident New York
Witnesses have described the Lamborghini as "approaching at a high rate of speed," which is hard to determine in the video but plausible..."
The safety cell of the Aventador, for its part, did what it was supposed to do and reduced the energy of the accident by separating itself from the rest of the car. That's probably less comforting when you see the bill for reconnecting it."
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Looks to me like the driver of the sedan is getting hit with a hell of an insurance bill...
Yup. Sedan driver is clearly at fault.
I don't really care what speed the Lambo was moving. It was clearly in the lane that the Sedan driver decided to turn into without a signal. That's enough to tell me the sedan driver is a hazard.
Those sedans and that style of driving is de rigueur for the local immigrants from Africa.
They drive worse than Iowans.
What?
No traffic whatsoever then two asteroids from different galaxies suddenly appear as if materializing in the physical dimension on Earth for the direct purpose of having a collision.
What the hell is the body of that overpriced Italian slice of shit made of, bone china?
"What the hell is the body of that overpriced Italian slice of shit made of, bone china?"
Obama's spine.
Obama's spine.
I don't think so. It wouldn't even have been able to get up to speed with that minuscule structural integrity.
If the body of the Lamborghini had been made of Obama's incomptence, the Mazda would have disintegrated on impact. That shit is denser than depleted uranium.
Look, I know there are people for whom $400K is pocket change, and, since I'm not one of them I guess I just don't understand, but why, oh why, would someone drive a Lambo in NYC? Talk about a disaster waiting to happen.
I went into my workroom to hunt down a paper that a city employee asked for. The woman is nearby and it's very easy for me to drop in and hand it to her, but that put me next to the prototype I made last night and that thing is cute as h.e. double hockeyheck double hecksticks cute as heck. I played with it. Incomplete without trees and without its uppermost layer, it doesn't show what makes it so neato-mosquito because that must be imagined, trees in a row creating a matrix of trees, and a whole new ground level with a sunken pool in the center, that is unfinished and unclear in the prototype because that is where all the art is, that's the drag of it, the bummery of the project, the reason for the prototype to avoid doing all that without proof of its aceness. What is shows is the pool splashing closed and a crocodile disappearing. You can hardly see it all. Especially surrounded by trees. You must cheat to see it. pry it open. Hold it half way opened, turn it all around to peek in there and then only see the crocodile partially here, partially there. I like that a lot. I was wary of the idea at first for being so flat and so geometric but the incomplete prototype just now convinced me otherwise. I'll show it in finished form, I can already tell that it's ace.
Hang on.
Check this out.
20,000 Leagues under the sea.
(That's quite a distance to go, I wonder how deep. If it's shallow then pfffft. )
1 league = 3.45233834 miles
3.45 X 20 = 69
The pop-up version has a submarine disappearing under waves. And it is 100% ace because by the time the page is opened the waves have calmed down and the sub disappeared.
Ace.
At the end 4:30
I hadn't seen that. Wow. I'm going back to watch the boy. His amazement is amazing. I only saw seconds of that boy but I think that is what my sister was trying to convey.
She told me she took snail town to church and the adults she showed all remarked on either the art or the mechanism, I forget which, but the two groups she showed responded differently. And she said, the kids played with to destruction, she feared, but it held up to over 50 openings and closings
per kid.
in her church. So that's a lot of kid-enthusiasm over a fairly simple card. I put snail slime on the cover, dried glue, it smears like an S and ends in a snail. Snail related signs all over.
Sam Ita shows how he dun it.
My crocodile and pool are different from that, not so many waves, much less than that. My pool has archaic zig-zag water symbol, the word for water is written in those zig-zags. I can disrupt the zig-zags with concentric rings, cause them to warp while maintaining the same number of zigs and zags also create concentric rings as a disturbed pool on both the pool and the flaps that cover the hole the crocodile appears in and sinks into so it closes to a disturbed pool.
Sure, the sedan turned into his path, but that would not have been a problem, and he would have made it, or the Lambo could have stopped if the Lambo was doing the speed limit, so shared liability.
Sedan: no signal, should have noticed the Lambo's speed.
Lambo: excessive speed.
The sedan driver has a lot better excuse: "I had an reasonable expectation that drivers would be driving near the speed limit in a residential neighborhood."
Lambo driver: "I feel the need... the need for speed."
$400K is about 13 times as much as I ever paid for a vehicle. It's a great car, but unless it causes women to uncontrollably tear of their clothes and jump in, it ain't worth it.
Bagoh's got a great point. The Sedan probably won't even be cited because the cops are automatically assuming anyone driving a Lambo is at fault.
Bagoh's got a great point. The Sedan probably won't even be cited because the cops are automatically assuming anyone driving a Lambo is at fault.
Palladian said...
What the hell is the body of that overpriced Italian slice of shit made of, bone china?
No, it's actually a carbon composite monoque construction. It did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Palladian said...
What the hell is the body of that overpriced Italian slice of shit made of, bone china?
No, it's actually a carbon composite monoque construction. It did exactly what it was supposed to do.
" It did exactly what it was supposed to do"
Yep, empty the owner's wallet.
It did work pretty well in the crash too. A normal car would have spun and maybe rolled. The seats and driver didn't even change course much, so very few dangerous forces were put on the meat-based wallet container.
Wow. Crazy clip. I agree that the sedan's more at fault, if not entirely. As far as the separation goes though, that's cool, hope it does bring the bill down, but couldn't it be more potentially dangerous if each segment only has one pair of wheels? I'd imagine you'd get a fair amount of spin either way, but still..
Methadras is right. Not sure about the impact-design aims in this one (other than the separation), but other cars are supposed to crumple outside the "protected zones" (sorry, don't know the term) that carry the driver and passengers. Simply building cars strong enough to beat the other one up more aggressively is a bad and unsafe design strategy. And irresponsible.
Seriously how fast was the L going? It appeared to be a block away as the sedan first moved left.
I bet some insurance dude will figure it out. If the L was speeding ....
I bet some insurance dude will figure it out. If the L was speeding
It doesn't matter if it was. It had the right of way and was clearly visible before the sedan had even entered its lane. The L driver might have gotten a speeding ticket, but his insurer is going to take the sedan owner's insurance company for a lot of moolah.
Sheesh, the sedan even hit the other care in the *side*. How much of a dumbass do you have to be to turn left into the SIDE of an oncoming car?
Yep, empty the owner's wallet.
I doubt that. It was probably one of those Wall Street types who compete with Russian Billionaires to see who can waste money in the most flamboyant fashion possible. This would hardly rate.
Looking at Google for the location and doing some measurements; I get the Lambo travelling ~.1 mile in 5 to 6 seconds. That's 50-60 mph in a very residential location. In my opinion, the sedan did several things wrong, but there's enough there for the lawyer of the sedan's driver's insurance company to argue that the lambo driver cover some of his own claims.
Although a mistake in this case, the sedan driver can justify turning when he did. A car approaching at the speed limit would not get there in time. The Lambo driver cannot justify his speed, unless his wife was giving birth in the passenger seat. I'd win this case for sedan driver. Nobody on the jury can afford that car, nor do they drive 60 through residential neighborhoods, but they all want to be able to pull in their driveway without worrying about this.
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