Counterweight says:

#20 – Simple. It’s recording all the time but not saving the info. It goes into a buffer that’s at least two minutes long. When you hit the red lights, it starts saving the data from the buffer and real time.

Rob Leather says:

# 16 Actually there are brake lights. Just as he’s airborne. Looks like he was bombing down the road. Sees the Police Officer swerves, gets distracted, hits the grass, tries to recover (pointless) and WAHEY! Skyward.

I wouldn’t be so amused if he had not survived the crash.

Similar thing happened to me in a Audi. Truck swerved out, I had to dodge into the grass… but it’s got ABS and so forth and I was able to control the vehicle.

Conclusion. If you are going to drive at 100mph. Drive something that’s a little more capable of not going airborne.

Do you think the fact it was a Fire-”bird” played a factor in it’s aerial antics?

Tom says:

#20: Actually that is a common feature in many cameras today. The video is continuously dumped to a cache and when the record button is pressed (or lights on in this case), the cache is dumped to HDD and catches up to real time.

Tom

Mr. Fusion says:

#24, Tippas,

Nope. Speed doesn’t kill. It’s the sudden stop that gets ‘em every time.

DLee24 says:

Well, at least he got his 0:44 of fame.

pedro says:

I know there was no death, but no honorary nomination to the Darwin Awards?

Rich says:

I-675 south proceeds northeast to southwest and has lots of curves and some hills. The fastest I’ve gone there is about 80, and I did almost lose it on one of the curves, but not on a straightaway. What a lightweight! But the really locally infamous, perpetually gridlocked highway is I-75, some distance west of there.

Awake says:

Eden (the driver), age 19, had been arrested a mere hour before the wreck, which was filmed by a police officer’s dashboard camera. The teenager had been picked up in a parking lot with an underage female, an unopened can of beer, a trace amount of pot and drug paraphernelia. The girl was released to her parents, and Eden was cited and let go.

User7 says:

#33 Were you driving a dump truck? Much like #28 I have hit speeds that put the needle of my speedometer back to 0 when I was a teenager and wouldn’t do that again but on dry pavement you should be losing control at 80mph.

whoaman says:

if you watch carefully just as it becomes airborne something seems to be thrown of jumps out of the car
i presume the driver
if the angle of whatever induced the jump was a few degrees higher he could have made it , the speed was actually on the money we’re talking what.. 5%’s give or take .. granted the landing wouldnt have been all movie like with a smooth landing being with that much force and speed hitting the ground woulda spun around and possibly flipped over several times taking out a looooot more vehicles
slim to no chance of really pulling off the hollywod stunt at that speed