Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA
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Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA
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#2I've heard of this happening again and again lately because of the lack of traffic due to Covid.
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#3Here's a great video from 2 days ago explaining the recent record attempts during COVID
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#4I've heard of this happening again and again lately because of the lack of traffic due to Covid.
That’s what it says in the article as well
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#5It's interesting that they took the Audi and made a few small mods to make it look like it's a ford police interceptor from the front.
Is there a possibility this would fool other police? Or just people to get out of their way.
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#6I've heard of this happening again and again lately because of the lack of traffic due to Covid.
The article says this is the 6th new record since Nov 2019.
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#7As far as I can tell, this is an illegal race that puts innocent peoples lives at unnecessary risk. Nothing to glorify IMO.
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#8Three significant threads in the last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206216
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#10It's interesting that they took the Audi and made a few small mods to make it look like it's a ford police interceptor from the front. Is there a possibility this would fool other police? Or just people to get out of their way.
Both. I think it lends just enough plausible deniability if they did get stopped by police, but provides a certain amount of cover by creating some hesitation to identify it as either a private vehicle or a cop car (i.e., creating uncertainty) and prevent stoppage and other slowdowns. A friend of mine used to drive a Ford Crown Vic with a whip antenna on the rear that was actually an unmarked ex-cop car. When he would get in the passing lane, he'd never get blocked—US drivers recognize white or dark blue Ford Crown Vics and Taurus models as common police vehicles and usually change to the right (non-passing) lane immediately.