I dunno. My initial reaction would be to back up and drive as far away as I can. The tunnel will only hold so much weight before it collapses. And you definitely don’t want to be in there when it does.
At the beginning of the video, before they enter the tunnel, you can hear a rock hitting the car: the landslide had already begun in both sides of the tunnel, it was too late to turn back. Staying inside the tunnel was definitely the best choice, even considering the risk of it collapsing.
It's not a tunnel. It's a concrete rockfall canopy built to protect that part of the road so it's doing its job. It is sloped so it won't collapse unless a really huge boulder fall on it.
Edot: Rockfall canopies are built over roads where rockfalls are common. This is a pretty bad rockfall but not a landslide.
\m/ it was moderately funny at first - I wasn't expecting it \m/ the next two comments though are that peanut gallery reddit thing, without reticence to say, that sheet is out of hand
I've no training in the subject, but I'd be torn. Leave it running to purify the air coming in or choke the engine with dust? Switch it off and risk not being able to start the car again? What climate are we in, is it too hot to not use the A/C?
Once all the fuss has died down, id be inclined to switch it off and only use it when i needed to get some "fresh" air.
This is dash cam footage from a car driving along Taroko Gorge in Hualien Taiwan. The landslide was triggered by a massive earthquake that struck east Taiwan on April 3rd, 2024. There are even more insane videos on reddit from that event. I remember seeing one where the driver was dodging car sized boulders in reverse.
The music you hear is original sound from the car radio. The screeching siren is his phone's earthquake app (can also be heard in the beginning of our video here), the female voices you hear are from his car's speed camera detection device. You heard it twice because he backed up pass the speed camera again.
That brings back my nightmare, at age 17, of being buried in my Camaro on Devil's Slide, California. I was so happy when the tunnels were built to bypass the slide!
Calmest people ever.
Probably used to whatever that was. Tornado or landslide. Or whatever that even was.
I'd guess it's a landslide, they were quite lucky to be in that half-tunnel.
I dunno. My initial reaction would be to back up and drive as far away as I can. The tunnel will only hold so much weight before it collapses. And you definitely don’t want to be in there when it does.
At the beginning of the video, before they enter the tunnel, you can hear a rock hitting the car: the landslide had already begun in both sides of the tunnel, it was too late to turn back. Staying inside the tunnel was definitely the best choice, even considering the risk of it collapsing.
It's not a tunnel. It's a concrete rockfall canopy built to protect that part of the road so it's doing its job. It is sloped so it won't collapse unless a really huge boulder fall on it.
Edot: Rockfall canopies are built over roads where rockfalls are common. This is a pretty bad rockfall but not a landslide.
Thanks for clarifying this, I didn't know things like rockfall canopies exist. TIL.
I think it might have been built specifically for this scenario, and I'm unsure if the mountain isn't also coming down from where the car came, too.
They speak Taiwan's Mandarin ("Wakao!" --> WTF?) so yeah they are used to daily earthquake and a few typhoons per seasons. Extremely lucky tho...
i thought it was "我操！” in mainland mandarin, it's pronounced very similarly
哇靠
https://imgur.com/a/Kkmge2O
I quote this and "step off where, Trevor", more than I think anything else from the show.
"oh no."
"Wat...ooo noo"
Well I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight.
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand!
Off to never never land!
(rock) \m/
\m/ it was moderately funny at first - I wasn't expecting it \m/ the next two comments though are that peanut gallery reddit thing, without reticence to say, that sheet is out of hand
THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!
I understood that reference
From a lacerated sky
Cuz everyone knows rocks are afraid of light
This guy’s response to being buried alive is the same energy as finding out your lottery scratch ticket was a loser.
"Oh no..."
sigh
Typical.
No point in overreacting, reversing into the same thing going on behind you
🤣
What do you even do after this
Wait, and hope.
Do you keep The car running?
I mean that certainly will make your death more peaceful
I've no training in the subject, but I'd be torn. Leave it running to purify the air coming in or choke the engine with dust? Switch it off and risk not being able to start the car again? What climate are we in, is it too hot to not use the A/C?
Once all the fuss has died down, id be inclined to switch it off and only use it when i needed to get some "fresh" air.
Engine off but ignition on for the fan till the dust has settled.
Then turn it off and see if you can get out.
Exactly!
Not gas it thru like a Fast and Furious movie??
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
Start counting sheeps
Count my blessings first
Selfie time!!
That why carry food and water inside my car
nah, my ass just hungry all the time
Like military supply pack I guess?
You should always have a sixer of water somewhere in your car.
This is dash cam footage from a car driving along Taroko Gorge in Hualien Taiwan. The landslide was triggered by a massive earthquake that struck east Taiwan on April 3rd, 2024. There are even more insane videos on reddit from that event. I remember seeing one where the driver was dodging car sized boulders in reverse.
Link please
https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/s/2BNzx4FOnv
The music you hear is original sound from the car radio. The screeching siren is his phone's earthquake app (can also be heard in the beginning of our video here), the female voices you hear are from his car's speed camera detection device. You heard it twice because he backed up pass the speed camera again.
Wow, crazy video, nice
Thankfully for all the "beware of falling rocks" signs i've seen this has never happened to me
The moment when u hope the engineers didn't cheat in the exams
That brings back my nightmare, at age 17, of being buried in my Camaro on Devil's Slide, California. I was so happy when the tunnels were built to bypass the slide!
Crazy, I'm glad you're okay!
It was a literal nightmare! Not real! :D
Motorcyclists especially love these things
“Welp, looks like we’re not going that way.”
They weren't crushed but they're still buried! Too damn calm for me, I would've lost my shiznit
more like r/gradualchaos
The one time you done bring food to work, trapped in new cave
I'd be noping the fuck right outta there in reverse, with my foot to the floor. I wouldn't trust that mini tunnel.
Well, I live here now...
did he say ohh GG
“Oh honey, GG.”
Great, youre still alive. Now what?
Unbelievable timing
so how do i get the stink out of my car?
Night :3
Soooo did they make it out alive?
They’d be skid marks- but not on the road.
I would be having a panic attack!🙀🙀
Looks like when we do rock cleaning from perspective of the lollipop and clean up for traffic guys.
This happened on Chapman Peak's drive in Cape Town.
https://www.reddit.com/r/capetown/s/OnqWylnjS3
Hopefully not too many cars behind them…
Damn that's a scary situation.
Hope they weren't trapped there for very long.
It looks like someone is taking a very slow poo on this car from a very great height.
[deleted]
There are rocks falling behind them too, you hear one hit before they reach the tunnel.
They should've called emergency By The time it started...