Car successfully drives through deep floodwaters - GIF

Car successfully drives through deep floodwaters.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...475#post215551
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...789#post213160
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...069#post199185
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...627#post189867
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...767#post152204

Likely an EV...

It's a Kia. Hamsters can swim, so this is safe to do.

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Originally Posted by ductape

It's a Kia. Hamsters can swim, so this is safe to do.

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LOL! Just make sure they have itty-bitty snorkels!

WTF how did he pull that off ?

Most probably a advance scuba diver

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Originally Posted by Bony

WTF how did he pull that off ?

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I think it's CGI

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Originally Posted by Bony

WTF how did he pull that off ?

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They got lucky.

The drove into the water and the car started floating. That nose-down orientation is how a hatchback floats in shallow water. When it's in that position water is flooding into the passenger compartment, and the nose sinks deeper and deeper. If that happens in deep water the car flips over, sinks into the mud, and it becomes a body recovery. In this case they were lucky. Either the current or their momentum carried them across. When you see the car jump and jerk right in front of the truck, that's when the front wheels sank low enough and the road angled up enough for the front wheels to touch the ground again. They were lucky again that the intake hadn't flooded with water, hydrolocking the engine, and lucky again again that nothing electronic shorted out*.

* - the electronics are surprisingly good at surviving water exposure. It's bad for them and corrosion massively shortens their lifespan afterwards, but they can take more abuse than you'd expect.

Don't do this. This video could have a lot of bad endings. If the left-side retaining wall or right-side gaurdrail failed, they'd be washed away and probably drown. If they'd hit an obstacle or not had enough momentum they'd be stuck in the middle and need rescue. If the truck had been a few feet farther forward they'd have hit it, been stuck, and needed rescue. If the engine intake had flooded, they'd be stuck and need rescue. Those rescue scenarios don't sound "so bad", but they'd pull the rescuers away from helping others.

A foot of moving water is enough to wash a car off a road. Even more insidious, six inches of moving water can erode a roadbed away so it crumbles when you drive on it. This is a dumb way to die.

I can't see any exhaust bubbles in the water...

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