For me, one of the most irritating things that can happen in a film is for people to be trapped in a sinking car and to behave in a totally irrational way and then drown. It even annoys me when bad guys and irritating characters are bumped off in this manner. So I’m glad that a Canadian scientist has chucked 80 cars into water to confirm my intuitions about the best strategy.
- Remove seatbelt.
- Free children.
- Open window.
- Get out.
Don’t try to open the door! This is the number one mistake that stupid people in films make.
“Most of the time, it will be impossible anyway,” …
“If you try early on, it is possible to muscle the door open, but then you take a vehicle that would float for maybe 60 seconds, and it’s going to sink within five to 10 seconds, because as you open the door, the water comes in, the vehicle sinks faster.”
Also I’m glad to learn that electric windows will work in the water as that’s always been a source of concern for me.
And then Tom A said:
He used 80 cars! Surely ten would have done it!
And then tom said:I was more worried about the people who failed to escape from the first 79!
And then Dan said:Is this an issue that actively worries you, or more of a bugbear?
And then tom said:I don’t know, when I was younger we used to drive along some pretty precarious roads for long periods of time I spent a good proportion of these journeys wondering what the best way to get out of the car might be should it be a> caught in a landslide. b> washed away in a river. c> plumet down a ravine. All in the particularly intense and worried way only a 10 year old can.
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