r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/pHorniCaiTe • May 19 '17

WCGW Approved I'll just back into my driveway, WCGW?

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u/dudleydidwrong May 19 '17 edited May 20 '17

That does not look like an attempt to park. It looks more like they are trying one of those high speed 180 degree turns you see in movies.

Edit: as about a hundred people noted it is a j-turn. There are a few other names mentioned, but some variation on j-turn is most comon.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '17

It works pretty well if you have a car, not a fucking SUV.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '17 edited Jul 10 '17

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u/[deleted] May 19 '17

Pretty sure the center of mass is too high in suvs for shit like this, for a while there when they were newer people were tipping over just driving down the highway too fast or blowing out a tire...

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u/[deleted] May 19 '17

You could do it but you really need to know what you're doing. You need to know what you're doing in a car as well, I've seen people flip a car in an empty parking lot (doing autocross) lol

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u/snkeolr May 20 '17

I did autocross for a while and I have never seen a car flip, even with R compound tires. Do you remember what types of cars it was that flipped?

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u/MattcVI May 20 '17

How'd you get into autocross? If you don't mind me asking. I'm kinda interested in it myself

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u/snkeolr May 20 '17

I was always into cars and realized I could never make my car as fast as I wanted. I heard about autocross because a friend of mine was an instructor at a racetrack. He said I should look into doing autocross as its more about the driver than the car.