A driver decides to calmly leave her car and stroll away while it is still in the middle of a busy boulevard in California and the engine is running and of course, as this dash cam video taken by the car behind shows, with highly predictable consequences. Fortunately, no one seems to have got hurt.
Mano Singham
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Technically it’s no longer driving once she’s left her car.
You can trust me, I work for bylaw.
It doesn’t appear to be the case in the video, I assume the car with the video camera isn’t a police car, and hasn’t been mistaken for a police car, but it isn’t unknown for people in vehicles thinking they might be arrested to leave the car running and in gear so the police have to choose between going after the person or stopping the car and preventing a potentially serious accident.
Lucky for the school bus (@34 s) this didn’t happen moments sooner.
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Hmmm, the driver of the dash-cam car is consistently driving awfully close… just my personal bugbear.
If Americans could wean themselves off of automatics this would be a less likely scenario.
Nothing wrong with an automatic (or CVT). It’s just that drivers can’t be arsed to use the hand-brake and select park position at any time except when they leave the car. Or, in this case, not even then. But you’re right -- N.America does seem to produce a lot of ‘runaway car’ videos.