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RC Car Crash

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:18 am
by caesar
Had this pop up on my daily news read. sorry if it's been posted already.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/25/09/18/remote-controlled-car-travelling-160km-per-hr-smashes-into-man

Re: RC Car Crash

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:35 am
by RedScampi
ow! :shock:

Re: RC Car Crash

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:04 am
by Coelacanth
Honestly, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often...with easy access to cheap, affordable electronics (though this one seemed to be nitro) and uber-powerful motors, multiple-celled LiPo batteries, anybody with a bit of cash can put together and drive a car capable of performing WAY above their abilities to control and drive it safely.

Re: RC Car Crash

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:32 am
by tamiya
meh that's only a LITTLE car

Had a run-in with a Baja 5B.... hurts a heap more!

Re: RC Car Crash

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:26 pm
by klavy69
personally I like to read the comment sections after stories like this. Sometimes, ok most of the time the keyboard cowboys get kinda entertaining :lol: . The one that gets to me is someone putting up a user id as "Large Johnson" making statements about 'grown men playing with toys' :P

Todd

Re: RC Car Crash

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:28 am
by besty22
Had a mate of mine drive his 1/8 twin lipo buggy into another mates shin.
After the car left a jump, made in haste , drunkenly.

A couple of lessons he learnt that day.
1 Dont drink and drive (even RC cars it would seem)
2 having a bunch of drunk blokes make a jump is a bad idea.
3 Its extremely difficult to steer an airborne car.
Lmao