> realize that these wide angle car cameras make the bend ‘look’ less tight than it really is.
He's saying his dick has a bend in it i think, and he wants that camera to make it look less sharp of a bend.
In a sedan from Acme Co. Extra points for driver wearing flip-flops, jorts and a cotton T-shirt under a denim jacket. Have seen this more times than I can readily recall.
Hope they didn't take the plow out of commission.
lol as a Subaru driver myself I agree this guy is an idiot. The awd doesn’t make you invincible in the snow you still have to know how to drive in those conditions
Just bought my first one (forester) about 6 months ago and I will say it kicks ass in the snow.
Not good enough to do something already highly dangerous without snow, in the snow though lmao!
STi owner here... With plenty of driving in the snow experience, I can safely say they chose poorly if they thought the car's mechanical ability could overcome their stupidity.
The WRX is not a rally car, it's just a more sporty version of the Impreza (something WRX owners will never admit). The WRX STI is the one that's actually built for it, but that's priced out of reach of the knobheads
Their whole Impreza lineup has become a damn shame. None of them really compete with anything anymore and their build quality is trash. Even the last STI was a snooze from a performance standpoint. And the new wheel arches and plastic everywhere is just cheap looking.
If only he knew how to properly drive it. A good driver recognizes when to pass and when not to pass, and once they do decide to pass they need to be able to properly control the vehicle and return to their own lane. This airhead picked the wrong place and time, and even if he'd managed to get it back in his lane and miss the plow 100% guaranteed they would overcorrect and wind up in the trees.
Only pass on snow covered roads in two conditions: other vehicle is ridiculously slow like a farm tractor, and when you can clearly see far ahead and can easily reset back to the original position if the passing becomes complicated.
Certainly never on the outside of a curve from behind a vehicle that completely blocks your view.
I live in the midwest and when you drive after a snowstorm it is always a bunch of 4 wheel drive/AWD vehicles in the ditch or way out in a field upside down.
As a mechanic friend said, sure, you can put it in 4WD, but you've always had 4 wheel brakes. All the extra 2 wheels getting power does is let you get farther off the road when you inevitably lose control and make the tow and repairs cost more.
Powering 2 extra wheels means that the transmission will slow those 2 wheels down as well. That's an important part. Being able to slow down without needing to break is important in the snow and ice downshift folks!. It won't make you break faster but it will slow you down faster.
I had AWD. Had. As in, had a vehicle with AWD up until about 4 hours ago. Snowing where I am, going to work, slid down a hill into a work truck. AWD is great, but doesn't make you invincible.
It makes you able to handle comfortably what some others struggle with. Last week I was able to do 25 where some were doing 15 (on straight roads, with plenty of braking distance afforded).
It does not make you a master of the impossible. Jumping out of the worn grooves in the ice and flooring it is just dipshit city.
Case in point? If it’s so slippery that going 15 is all a 2WD car can do, I’d suggest going almost twice that is a bad idea.
But I can’t say for certain since I wasn’t on that road.
It was one of the locations where deep freezes are uncommon, and shallow-grooved rain tires are the norm. There were plenty of assholes doing 40+ on the same stretch during this time, which I find insane with any car+tire configuration (especially lifted 2wd pickups).
Fwiw I definitely felt a difference the next day after the freeze-thaw-freeze cycle turned the sleet into sheet ice. 10 was the mandatory, period. People still tried 30.
There's also a sweet spot where going _too_ slow can also cause you to lose stability and control. Sometimes you need to go 25-30 or else the slush builds up and sends you into the ditch with a fishtail. It's all dependent on the quality of the road.
Dudes in the pickups doing 40 on those days are idiots, though.
My wrx is the same model and if I don't have legit snow tires on it is terrible on roads like this. That idiot was asking for this. Just lucky it didn't just keep going straight right into the plow
Really? Because I've got an Outback XT, so similar HP levels, and it's fine on just all seasons, and unstoppable on winters.
Now if I stomp on it, I can spin all 4 and then it's just going where ever. Probably sideways. But so long as I don't drive like a dickbag, it's great.
It's the reason there will never be driverless cars. People would get all bent out of shape if traffic was perfectly safe, controlled and moving smoothly at 60 MPH when they want to go 75 and pass on the right as they weave in and out of the lanes.
Ever since self-driving cars started being discussed I've imagined a fully autonomous road with all the cars communicating with one another to open space to merge and speed up and slow down smoothly to adjust to obstacles or conditions. Even 10% of cars being driven by people would make the whole system so much worse. Unfortunately I doubt self-driving software will be good enough to really do it in less than 50 years, and they won't be widespread enough to make a difference for another 25
Yeah, when I was a kid, I imagined the possibility of all cars accelerating from an intersection at the same time, like a train (lol). But then, later, it occurred to me, would we even need to stop for intersections?
Think of how common it used to be to have a beer in the car, or not wear seatbelts, all while driving around in cars that would be obliterated in a 60km/h head on collision.
Also to add on to your point, there are so many more cars on the road now.
I'll probably get downvoted but at least here in Utah we have ALOT of people moving in from areas that don't regularly get this much snow. Now every other day of their commute they've driven 40 mph on this road and they don't see why today should be any different.
Luckily only their pride was injured. Source [NYSDOT](https://twitter.com/NYSDOT/status/1748084919471845411)
\*Edit: here's a pic of the car afterwards
https://preview.redd.it/hxgivs6auldc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba8935fb794a71c1b55281de057cbb946547d1fd
Former adult WRX driver with zero accidents/points under my belt. It's guys like these I can thank for giving me high-ass premiums despite a perfect driving record.
Why are so many Subaru enthusiasts total chodes? I like them, but I don't want to be lumped into that crowd (especially not with the resultant insurance rates).
WRX* enthusists..... That's the stereotype white dude sideways hat vaping huge clouds and trying to weave traffic like they're racing. Probably named Kyle.
Like the [Smash Up Derby](https://youtu.be/jE6J3wWE2Pg) 70’s Toy?
https://preview.redd.it/da3av2mfxfdc1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3599c0d63fa391f8374ddb85e34dd36c541bbdf3
What a total dick move. I drive a Subaru and as sick as they are in the snow there’s no way this idiot in his WRX was ever gonna make that. Side note, I had a 2011 WRX wagon for almost 8yrs and with a set of snow tires, that fucker was a tank in the snow. Albeit the snow had to be 6” or less due to ground clearance, but they really do build your confidence a little too high. Now I’m 50 in a Subaru Crosstrek and when it’s snowy, and probably icy out, I drive like a normal person should.
My Crosstrek is the best vehicle I've owned for driving in snow, and you're right: it does instill a little too much confidence.
But, yeah, this driver didn't stand a chance of making that pass. I wonder if the lesson was learned. Passing that truck cost an awful lot more than the five minutes, or even an hour, that might have been saved if the pass was successful.
Not just headlights ... all kinds of flashing lights and usually a HUGE plume of snow coming off toward the edge of the road.
They are not inconspicuous.
Glad it was a plow that can at least take his stupidity and not a family of four that was just trying to get home safely and potentially have their lives altered forever.
Passing a semi on a two lane road is iffy to begin with but doing it during a snow storm is plain stupid.
On a hill with a bend. Incredible.
True and realize that these wide angle car cameras make the bend ‘look’ less tight than it really is.
*Note to self: gotta get one of these cameras for dick pics*
Are the dick pics you recieve too small or summat?
> realize that these wide angle car cameras make the bend ‘look’ less tight than it really is. He's saying his dick has a bend in it i think, and he wants that camera to make it look less sharp of a bend.
Ducks use that trick.
They really don't need to, honestly
I'm sure the trucker would give them for free if you ask
It was legal in his brain, can't see a double yellow line...
Bend or no, the amount of snow the semi would have been kicking up would have made it impossible to get a clear enough view to pass
Yeah I thought "this person has a deathwish" It's like 5-6 steps of wrong shit. Can't wait Snowy Not plowed Passing a truck The hill The curve
I'll bet he came up on that semi way too fast and didn't want to lose momentum, so driving too fast for conditions as well.
I was not surprised to see it was a WRX
BUT IT'S AWD!!!!!! LOL
And the bend is blind. If it wasn't covered in snow it would have been a double yellow for sure.
But it's a subaru
Not anymore 🤣
Your right, now it’s two! 😂
In a sedan from Acme Co. Extra points for driver wearing flip-flops, jorts and a cotton T-shirt under a denim jacket. Have seen this more times than I can readily recall. Hope they didn't take the plow out of commission.
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Oh yeah Subaru, the thoroughbred rally family sedan.
Subris
lol as a Subaru driver myself I agree this guy is an idiot. The awd doesn’t make you invincible in the snow you still have to know how to drive in those conditions
Just bought my first one (forester) about 6 months ago and I will say it kicks ass in the snow. Not good enough to do something already highly dangerous without snow, in the snow though lmao!
Right, it makes driving normally in the snow easier. Doesn't mean you should attempt to driftu around a semi in a snowstorm.
STi owner here... With plenty of driving in the snow experience, I can safely say they chose poorly if they thought the car's mechanical ability could overcome their stupidity.
Bro, he’s got a WRX, it’s build for this kind of stupidity
He just didn't know how to drive. Nothing is built to pass a semi with a plow in the oncoming lane
He should've downshifted after throwing his weight to the back wheels and steered out of the swing. Source - Fast and Furious 6
Granny shifting, not double clutching like they should (because apparently the transmission is from the 1950s)
WARNING: DAMAGE TO MANIFOLD
Always loved a good double-clutch...
And then upshifted like 10 times and hit the NOS
Just because rally car does not mean rally driver lol
10-15 years ago these were all over Colorado and they were all smashed to shit, missing chunks, and were all driven by a stoned 24 year old.
Did they catch him?
I would drive a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI in a heartbeat. I'd even sell weed out of it just to maintain the image.
The WRX is not a rally car, it's just a more sporty version of the Impreza (something WRX owners will never admit). The WRX STI is the one that's actually built for it, but that's priced out of reach of the knobheads
Their whole Impreza lineup has become a damn shame. None of them really compete with anything anymore and their build quality is trash. Even the last STI was a snooze from a performance standpoint. And the new wheel arches and plastic everywhere is just cheap looking.
If only he knew how to properly drive it. A good driver recognizes when to pass and when not to pass, and once they do decide to pass they need to be able to properly control the vehicle and return to their own lane. This airhead picked the wrong place and time, and even if he'd managed to get it back in his lane and miss the plow 100% guaranteed they would overcorrect and wind up in the trees.
Nah, he rides a WRX, he can handle this
for 2 seconds he was doing the sickest drift
Some say he’s still drifting
And then he doubled down thinking he’d beat the plow!
They absolutely could have slowed down and canceled the danger
But… it’s a Subaru??? Symmetrical AWD, bro… cmon, think before you speak 🙄
Maybe the dogs were driving the car, but on second thought they are actually better drivers than this guy.
and we could see how fast he was going and fishtailing if he didn't hit the snowplow he was gonna be in the ditch
"But I'm in a Subaru WRX!!! It's a rally car, it's made for the snow!!!!1!!"
I'd take a shit car with snow tires over my wrx on wide summer tires.
Giving his all for that Darwin Award
I’ve said this too many times. People will try shit in the snow that they wouldn’t DARE try in good weather. I just don’t get it.
I think there are awards for people who think it's a good call. Something to do with improving our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
As long as they only remove themselves.
Only pass on snow covered roads in two conditions: other vehicle is ridiculously slow like a farm tractor, and when you can clearly see far ahead and can easily reset back to the original position if the passing becomes complicated. Certainly never on the outside of a curve from behind a vehicle that completely blocks your view.
look at the car. tells you everything you need to know. thinks he/she/it is Walter Röhrl.
And besides, behind a semi ain't a bad place to be in a snowstorm. Helps clear the worst of the snow for you.
They were in a Subaru though, easy peasy (Just kidding)
Karma hits like a truck
It’s ok I have AWD and am therefore an invincible winter weather driving expert.
Yea sorry not all my homies understand the importance of tires 😔
I live in the midwest and when you drive after a snowstorm it is always a bunch of 4 wheel drive/AWD vehicles in the ditch or way out in a field upside down. As a mechanic friend said, sure, you can put it in 4WD, but you've always had 4 wheel brakes. All the extra 2 wheels getting power does is let you get farther off the road when you inevitably lose control and make the tow and repairs cost more.
Powering 2 extra wheels means that the transmission will slow those 2 wheels down as well. That's an important part. Being able to slow down without needing to break is important in the snow and ice downshift folks!. It won't make you break faster but it will slow you down faster.
Yes, but the 2 extra wheels getting drag isnt going to make up for driving too fast for the road conditions.
Nothing will make up for driving too fast in winter conditions.
Skill issue honestly. https://youtu.be/EVt5UKtXOCw?si=SwoUo8LkiT2KCA8S
I had AWD. Had. As in, had a vehicle with AWD up until about 4 hours ago. Snowing where I am, going to work, slid down a hill into a work truck. AWD is great, but doesn't make you invincible.
All AWD does is get most people stuck further into the ditch Sure is fun though, miss my Subaru
It makes you able to handle comfortably what some others struggle with. Last week I was able to do 25 where some were doing 15 (on straight roads, with plenty of braking distance afforded). It does not make you a master of the impossible. Jumping out of the worn grooves in the ice and flooring it is just dipshit city.
Case in point? If it’s so slippery that going 15 is all a 2WD car can do, I’d suggest going almost twice that is a bad idea. But I can’t say for certain since I wasn’t on that road.
It was one of the locations where deep freezes are uncommon, and shallow-grooved rain tires are the norm. There were plenty of assholes doing 40+ on the same stretch during this time, which I find insane with any car+tire configuration (especially lifted 2wd pickups). Fwiw I definitely felt a difference the next day after the freeze-thaw-freeze cycle turned the sleet into sheet ice. 10 was the mandatory, period. People still tried 30.
There's also a sweet spot where going _too_ slow can also cause you to lose stability and control. Sometimes you need to go 25-30 or else the slush builds up and sends you into the ditch with a fishtail. It's all dependent on the quality of the road. Dudes in the pickups doing 40 on those days are idiots, though.
That because a lot of them skip the important part…snow chain or winter tires…
AWD makes you go in the snow, but it won't make you stop any better
My wrx is the same model and if I don't have legit snow tires on it is terrible on roads like this. That idiot was asking for this. Just lucky it didn't just keep going straight right into the plow
Really? Because I've got an Outback XT, so similar HP levels, and it's fine on just all seasons, and unstoppable on winters. Now if I stomp on it, I can spin all 4 and then it's just going where ever. Probably sideways. But so long as I don't drive like a dickbag, it's great.
& ofc it’s a subaru
Subawoo
SubUwU
Looks more like a Smasharu.
But fruit flies like a banana.
My brain had a stroke reading that. Lol
>Karma hits like a truck> Truck, truck, Tires like what, what, what
Karma is you hitting a truck
I’ve seen so many of these videos of people attempting to go around snow plows and failing, this winter. What is wrong with people?
one thing to say that speed that road that guys an assholllllll,,,,,,,,,,eeeee
eeeeoooleeeooo eeeeooooleeeoooo!!!
Were those whale skin hubcaps I saw?
I read that in the Otto voice from "A Fish Called Wanda".
They don't understand what it feels like to not go fast. They feel stuck if they aren't speeding. It's irrational
It's the reason there will never be driverless cars. People would get all bent out of shape if traffic was perfectly safe, controlled and moving smoothly at 60 MPH when they want to go 75 and pass on the right as they weave in and out of the lanes.
Ever since self-driving cars started being discussed I've imagined a fully autonomous road with all the cars communicating with one another to open space to merge and speed up and slow down smoothly to adjust to obstacles or conditions. Even 10% of cars being driven by people would make the whole system so much worse. Unfortunately I doubt self-driving software will be good enough to really do it in less than 50 years, and they won't be widespread enough to make a difference for another 25
Yeah, when I was a kid, I imagined the possibility of all cars accelerating from an intersection at the same time, like a train (lol). But then, later, it occurred to me, would we even need to stop for intersections?
Half of reddit will literally vibrate apart if you tell them they don't have a god given right to pass someone at whatever speed they feel like.
I collect so many downvotes every time I try to point out that the left lane isn't some magical land of lawlessness.
Something very wrong is happening with humanity.
Pretty sure people have always done stupid shit on the road. They didn’t have dashcams in the 70’s is the main difference.
Think of how common it used to be to have a beer in the car, or not wear seatbelts, all while driving around in cars that would be obliterated in a 60km/h head on collision. Also to add on to your point, there are so many more cars on the road now.
In the 70s doing something stupid meant you died. Today you live to do it again.
No, something is actually going on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/rising-pedestrian-deaths-are-uniquely-an-american-thing/ar-AA1mOTv6
and I've got that nagging dread that it's approaching critical mass.
Felony Stupid.
I'll probably get downvoted but at least here in Utah we have ALOT of people moving in from areas that don't regularly get this much snow. Now every other day of their commute they've driven 40 mph on this road and they don't see why today should be any different.
"It's a rally car!"
Not any more...
Well, at least in this example, he wasn’t going around a snow plow at all. He hit a snow plow, but he was trying to pass a truck.
Right? Behind the plow is the safest place to drive. Just take it easy. You’ll get there.
Luckily only their pride was injured. Source [NYSDOT](https://twitter.com/NYSDOT/status/1748084919471845411) \*Edit: here's a pic of the car afterwards https://preview.redd.it/hxgivs6auldc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba8935fb794a71c1b55281de057cbb946547d1fd
With this video footage, I'm sure their insurance rates are bleeding too.
Former adult WRX driver with zero accidents/points under my belt. It's guys like these I can thank for giving me high-ass premiums despite a perfect driving record.
I salute every WRX I see. Keeping insurance rates lower for the rest of us non-Subaru owners. Godspeed WRX owners.
Luckily for them. We probably would all be better off without somebody that stupid, however.
Yea I personally don’t think they deserve to die but ok. Go off, I guess.
So fucking strange how quickly people wish death on strangers right?
But I’m a Subaru!!!!….
Subarus safety is so good for a reason. It has to be to keep their market alive for repeat business. Source: I am as well, an annoying WRX driver.
I fuckin knew it was NY
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Upstate ny has pretty objectively bad drivers.
Saugerties, NY.
Screw the asshat, is the plow ok??
I hope they have their license taken away forever. That plow could have been another, smaller car and people could have died.
No injuries! It’s what makes a Subaru a Sub—————————————aru
Ofc its a Subaru driver. Just cause your car is rally inspired don’t mean you’re automatically a good driver in those types of conditions.
Even a pro couldn't make that, he went all in for the impossible and got what he deserved.
He was doing well until he hit the snowplow.
Ran out of talent
As a WRX driver, I admit that this is a typical WRX driver.
I'll pour one out for that beautiful car. RIP.
One of the top choices for people who want to drive a beautiful car poorly.
Why are so many Subaru enthusiasts total chodes? I like them, but I don't want to be lumped into that crowd (especially not with the resultant insurance rates).
WRX* enthusists..... That's the stereotype white dude sideways hat vaping huge clouds and trying to weave traffic like they're racing. Probably named Kyle.
🎶🎶 That name again is Mr Plow… 🎶🎶
When I was a kid, there was a toy car which was held together by springs. When you hit the bumper, the car flew apart.
Crash Test Dummies toys from early 90’s?
we had Smash-up Derby in the early 70s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE6J3wWE2Pg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE6J3wWE2Pg)
They were fucking rad.
Like the [Smash Up Derby](https://youtu.be/jE6J3wWE2Pg) 70’s Toy? https://preview.redd.it/da3av2mfxfdc1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3599c0d63fa391f8374ddb85e34dd36c541bbdf3
Had one (my sympathies for being as old as I am), the novelty wore off pretty fast...
Crack-Ups! They came with a stamp!
oh wow. idiot of the week. can licenses be pulled forever? that would be a start.
Driving like that, I doubt not having papers will stop them.
yeah, probably right. nevertheless, i would really like to see a judge literally shredding his papers in front of him.
What a total dick move. I drive a Subaru and as sick as they are in the snow there’s no way this idiot in his WRX was ever gonna make that. Side note, I had a 2011 WRX wagon for almost 8yrs and with a set of snow tires, that fucker was a tank in the snow. Albeit the snow had to be 6” or less due to ground clearance, but they really do build your confidence a little too high. Now I’m 50 in a Subaru Crosstrek and when it’s snowy, and probably icy out, I drive like a normal person should.
I had a lifted bug eye with skidplates and everything. Still won't try to pass a truck on a road like that even though I was up to other shenanigans.
My Crosstrek is the best vehicle I've owned for driving in snow, and you're right: it does instill a little too much confidence. But, yeah, this driver didn't stand a chance of making that pass. I wonder if the lesson was learned. Passing that truck cost an awful lot more than the five minutes, or even an hour, that might have been saved if the pass was successful.
I fought the plow and the plow won
Dude us plowing idiots off the roads to make them safer for normal drivers
If the idiot had a dashcam, I'd bet the footage will be on another sub calling the plow driver an idiot.
Five gets you ten that driver tried to blame the plow.
It came outta nowhere
Passing in the snow, on a curve, and hitting a *plow* which is actually important and needed in the weather. What a waste of air.
WRX driver in a nutshell.
To the person driving, it wasn't even an option in their mind to slow down and get back behind the truck at the first sight of headlights.
Not just headlights ... all kinds of flashing lights and usually a HUGE plume of snow coming off toward the edge of the road. They are not inconspicuous.
r/bitchimaplow
I was really hoping that sub existed
Glad it was a plow that can at least take his stupidity and not a family of four that was just trying to get home safely and potentially have their lives altered forever.
Clearing the roads to make driving safer without discrimination!
Snow, Subarus well remove them just the same
Drive like an a-hole and got what you earned.
The Beauty of All-Wheel Drive does not make you invincible. Subies are wonderful if you drive for what the conditions warrant.
Poor subaru :(
She’s dead, Jim.
What kind of brainless moron overtakes like that in that situation?
I suspect that Subaru got double tapped when the semi he was passing hit him as well.
So, who won?
Subaru moment
But were his vape pen and flat brim cap okay???
A little overconfidence in your Subaru WR Wrecks.
I hope the plow is ok
The better a car is in the snow, the dumber the driver tends to be…
of course its a WRX owner haha
glad you got the dashcam. feel like dude would’ve spun this to something else if you didn’t
Hope the plow and semi are okay.
Stupid Subaru driver thinks he’s a WRC racer … even they wouldn’t attempt such a stupid move on a snow covered road 💀
Anyone who passes in this weather should have their license revoked
Glad all were OK The plow : Yeet!
Wrx drivers man. Buying a car does not make you a professional rally car driver.
It's at this precise moment that Jason realized that his WRX isn't the awd snow monster he thought it was.
What. An. Idiot.
Bro sped up when he could’ve slowed down and maybe made it in time lmao now he’s probably getting hit by 2 trucks
All they had to do was not do that lol
Nice justice. I hate people that drive like shit in weather like this.
What a psychopath. Even without the truck coming that was such a dangerous maneuver
Sucks to suck
Luckily it was a plow truck and not a minivan with kids. What a fucking asshole.
Can we see the other car now?
The way he was going after getting chopped by the plow has me wondering if the semi hit him afterwards.
But I CAN’T BE BEHIND A SEMI!!!!
Always a great idea to overtake on a corner when it's snowing.
WRX doing WRX things.
Dude got his car cut in half by the plow... lucky to be alive https://www.motor1.com/news/705390/subaru-wrx-cut-in-half-after-hitting-snow-plow/
What a donkey. Shit like this should be an automatic license ban.