If you do it right and at the right time, you probably won't get cut.
Mythbusters did a thing on it and breaking the windows was very good and effective.
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You have to wait for the window to be entirely submerged in water to avoid shooting glass in your face
You have the B A L L S tell us to drive more carefully..then in the same sentence you say "NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO." as if it was completely inevitable.
l o g i c .
I'ma get high til this makes sense.
Not much you can do to save other people you fuckwit. It's hard enough to keep your head, much less your breath while panicking. Now go save a flailing three year old while your car is upside down, trash and dirt floating around, you're upside down (relative to the earth or car, you have no idea), you can't see jack shit even if you did open your eyes in this fetid water, and oh shit now you don't even know where the car door is because you spent the past 30 seconds fishing behind you for your baby and oops they're drowned and you panic more and oh there goes your air. Suck my ball.
Err...you can keep your ball to yourself.
I won't exchange insults as it is not bourgeois.
I will quit pointing out flaws and actually try to help people, so here we go:
Rule number one:
Don't panic. You can be anxious, excited, etc. But try not panic and you'll be fine.
However, if you feel you must panic, allot some time for panicking ( like 5 mins ) if time permits. In this situation, I'd take 10-15 seconds to get the initial panicking out of my system as the car is sinking but after time is up, then you have to "snap" yourself out if it. This will require summoning some courage. But makes the situation a bit more manageable.
One more piece of advice I will leave you with is to avoid tunnel vision, which is where your vision becomes more narrow and it gets harder to think.
Just take a 3-7 deep breaths while still making moves and your vision will be clearer and you will be able to think better and keep your cool, increasing your chances of quickly composing or remembering a plan and of surviving.
Now good day to you sir, maam, apache helicopter, whatever gender you identify as.
And sorry for any troubles. :)
Yes it's quite simple just don't panic when you've just driven off a ledge into a lake. You're mildly concussed, you have to gather your baby in the back, and is that a broken rib you feel?
You have about one minute before your car completely submerges and maybe two before it reaches the floor.
Yes have fun taking deep calm breaths when after thirty seconds you have barely enough air space to keep your ears out of the water
You are overthinking it too much, yet not offering any solutions. I'm not trying to be cunty, just saying.
Yes, prevention is super important, I agree with that.
You should do everything you can to prevent situations like this, but at the same time you gotta be prepared for when shit goes sooouuuth.
I guess everyone thinks differently though.
That's the thing. You can't prepare. There is no prevention besides "don't drive into a goddamn lake". There is no emergency plan. It's called "shut the fuck up, hold your breath, open the door, and gtfo". If that doesn't work, you're dead. There's no saving others, there's not even very much of saving yourself.
Not that everyone has training, but even if they did, if we all did what you're talking about there would be no use for firefighters or military personnel is just panic.
All I meant was is it possible to be quick enough to put your butt in gear, save the kid(s) and make the swim? How do? Keep scissors on board? Idk!
Sure why not. Let's also keep emergency SCUBA systems in our vehicles. You can dig a quarter mile deep hole in your backyard as a nuke shelter and stock it full of food but is it really feasible? Sure you =might= be able to do something when your car's going down and if you do it's by the grace of God. Sheer luck that everything goes exactly right.
Why not undo seatbelts when still dry, seems to not sere any purpose and if your seatbelt malfunctions or if you cant find the darn thing instantly you're wasting precious time
It's to help you stay oriented. Cars tend to fall upside down in water but at some arbitrary point they will flip right side up violently. Rarely they'll do this multiple times. You keep the belt on until the car is completely flooded so that you always know where you are in your car so that you can easily reach the door.
How am I completely irrational? I'm saying you can't save someone else because you have less than a minute to get your shit together under extreme situations. You probably can't even save yourself. Someone asked a question and I answered based on experimental evidence.
And my answers of "it's really fucking hard to save yourself, much less someone else" is based around the fact that cars will flip at least once violently and randomly.
It didn't have anything to do with the actual message, just how you said it.
I agree, the majority don't have the sanity to put their butt in gear and save even themselves, but some people do. It's for the hopefully calm I was asking for.
Even Adam Savage, with the complete knowledge of what was gonna happen, "died" in the test mythbusters did. He used not only his few puffs of emergency canned air but IIRC also took the emergency diver's air. If he couldn't get out with full knowlege, no surprise, anticipation, and a game plan, (almost) nobody can with complete surprise, injuries, and panic much less with something else to take care of.
So now do you understand why I said what I'm saying? By the time your car hits the water, you'd better have made peace with your god because your chances of getting out is smaller than my dick.
That's what I was asking for. I'm sure due to the large communication gap that occurred through online reading was why it felt like your first response was so harsh. The second one was much easier to swallow, took me off my weak defensive anyway.
Bloody face>drowning and getting injured isnt as likely as drowning if you do it correctly
Mythbusters did a thing on it and breaking the windows was very good and effective.
not much you can do
l o g i c .
I'ma get high til this makes sense.
I won't exchange insults as it is not bourgeois.
I will quit pointing out flaws and actually try to help people, so here we go:
Rule number one:
Don't panic. You can be anxious, excited, etc. But try not panic and you'll be fine.
However, if you feel you must panic, allot some time for panicking ( like 5 mins ) if time permits. In this situation, I'd take 10-15 seconds to get the initial panicking out of my system as the car is sinking but after time is up, then you have to "snap" yourself out if it. This will require summoning some courage. But makes the situation a bit more manageable.
Just take a 3-7 deep breaths while still making moves and your vision will be clearer and you will be able to think better and keep your cool, increasing your chances of quickly composing or remembering a plan and of surviving.
Now good day to you sir, maam, apache helicopter, whatever gender you identify as.
And sorry for any troubles. :)
You have about one minute before your car completely submerges and maybe two before it reaches the floor.
Yes have fun taking deep calm breaths when after thirty seconds you have barely enough air space to keep your ears out of the water
Yes, prevention is super important, I agree with that.
You should do everything you can to prevent situations like this, but at the same time you gotta be prepared for when shit goes sooouuuth.
I guess everyone thinks differently though.
All I meant was is it possible to be quick enough to put your butt in gear, save the kid(s) and make the swim? How do? Keep scissors on board? Idk!
I agree, the majority don't have the sanity to put their butt in gear and save even themselves, but some people do. It's for the hopefully calm I was asking for.