That’s not how physics works, but I appreciate the thought.
Even if it wasn’t super dangerous, I wouldn’t be able to drive like this. It’s like a giant sign that doesn’t just say that you’re lazy, but selfish.
Lol, gotta observe that the minivan driver thinks they’re in some way superior to the targeted Tesla. They’ll keep telling themselves that as they’re picking the cheerios out of the seat cracks with dried rotten milk stains left by their kids. Got to keep your masculinity intact somehow by imagining your coolness.
Minivans are awesome and actually have a large amount of usable space, starkly contrasted to today’s pickup trucks with sparkly clean beds and SUVs that are all useless interior plastic. I’ve hauled sheets of plywood, MDF, and lots of bottle depot runs with mine.
As the car gets warm, the snow at the bottom melts. Then the idiot parks it to do his groceries or whatever so it cools back down and freezes into a 2 inch thick block of ice. Then they drive on the highway. That block of ice breaks free, flies up in the air, catches in the wind while tumbling which gives it an unpredictable trajectory and smashes the windshield of a car that was unfortunate enough to be further back at that time.
I know because it happened to me. Had to get a windshield replaced in the middle of a road trip. The dipshit who caused it didn’t even realize what happened and kept driving. The police should absolutely crack down on this instead of all the other petty bullshit they tend to harass people over.
That shit can get you a nasty ticket in Canada. They know how dangerous it is
It can get you a nasty ticket just about anywhere, but the cops have to enforce traffic law for that to happen
Idk I had several people warning me about that when I lived in Quebec, and I very rarely saw people driving with snow on their roof, so I assumed it was enforced quite seriously
The police should absolutely crack down on this…
They do, in some communities, fwiw. I’ve gotten a warning contingent that I remove the snow RIGHT NOW.
Don’t want to doxx myself, so I’ll just say “in the northeast US.”
I was just looking for a video to say exactly what you did, people should see it happen in real time:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ZA8HB6ZpVRY
(This is invidious, a yt proxy, if you don’t recognize the URL. Content (no audio): A car’s dashcam captures an incident where a seemingly small bit of ice comes loose from a car ahead of the driver and destroys the windshield. It’s hard to notice if you aren’t looking out for it, bit of a jumpscare.)
Canonical yt link: https://youtu.be/ZA8HB6ZpVRY