Would playing GT5 driving prevent this?

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Thank god I live in the north, where we have...

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EDIT: No, GT5 can not prevent things like that. It's just plain stupid to go for a drive when you're on summer tires and you know there could be ice out there.
 
Those must be some of the dumbest people Ive seen in a while!!! Why the hell would you jump out of a car thats gliding over ice AND downhill??? That guy almost gets run over from the looks of it...
 
Strittan
Thank god I live in the north, where we have...

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EDIT: No, GT5 can not prevent things like that. It's just plain stupid to go for a drive when you're on summer tires and you know there could be ice out there.
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I wish we could have those here.
 
No, practicing on GT5 wouldn't prevent it. What might have helped is coming off the brakes as it would stop the tyres effectively acting as four tiny skis.
 
That's not funny at all. How would you feel if this happens to you ( = everyone that's reading this tread and thinks it's funny). You don't know what happened to the car after it disappeared behind the houses.

It's very stupid indeed to take out your car when the roads are like a skating rink.




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It does look quite insane to jump out of the car, but from what we can see of the slope, it doesn't look like a rosy ending. I don't really believe that they had time to think, they just reacted. This must have been completely terrifying.

Can GT5 help you overcome a downhill, icy road, while utilizing the wrong tires. Probably not, but maybe the simulated damage would make you think twice about tire selection.
 
Once it happened to me on a brief steeper slope, I immediately left the brake as I could clearly see a safe stretch ahead where breaking right before a crossing. In that vid looks like there's ice everywhere though, we're not sure whether they didn't choose the best thing left to do. Not funny wtf.
 
TuneR-
I can't believe that some people are seriosly that stupid. What they were thinking?
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"Dude, let's post this in YouTube it's gonna be sooooooo funny"

Thats what I think was in their minds...if they have minds (which, apparently, they don't have) :lol:.

Feschka
This is funny, arguably the guy is a sucker for Forza:

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Same case. What a :dunce:🤬.
 
Why on earth did they bail out?! Think for a minute: where's the safest place to be? Sitting in a car (with seatbelts and airbags) or lying in the middle of an icy road?

Strittan
It's just plain stupid to go for a drive when you're on summer tires and you know there could be ice out there.
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...which is essentially what everyone in Britain does every time it gets icy.


Trouble is, none of us are actually taught how to drive in icy or snowy conditions (or tested on it), so the majority of the public haven't a clue and do really clever things like slam on the brakes. Or jump out, apparently. Nor do we have any concept of seasonal tyres. In fact the only person I've ever met who owned a set of chains was my dad, who was the sort of person that (I kid you not) used to stick a wheel clamp on his Discovery to stop it getting nicked. (Not from Leeds, I should point out. At least there it'd make some degree of sense...)

Admittedly there probably wasn't a great deal the driver could do once that had started sliding. Although clambering out and leaving a car to roll down an incline with its brakes off (icy or not) was a ridiculously stupid thing to do. What if someone had been walking down that road, only to have 900kg of driverless Fiesta plough into them?
 
I saw another video last year where people jumped out of a moving vehicle sliding on ice. The only way to prevent that stupidity is to not give them a driver license.
 
Why didn't you put it in the fail thread.

The problem in britain is that we don't know how to drive on ice so we don't drive when it snows. However 3 days later when it has gone and you have black ice that is when people drive and you've been framed have fieldays.
 

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