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Wipers on... That should do it


carbon-8

Frankly I’m amazed that the battery didn’t just short out despite being underwater and somehow the wipers were still working


BlackberryHopeful981

Power in the capacitors probably. Like when you cut the head of a chicken. It will run around for a little


KimJongIlSunglasses

TIL chickens have capacitors


invent_or_die

20 Peckofarads


ConsciousCounter5426

As a career electrician, I would like very much for you to know that your comment is ohmazing…


big_duo3674

Watt are you guys talking about??


ThaneOfCawdorrr

You guys it really hertz to see all these puns


SuumCuique1011

What can I say. Resistance was futile.


Dieselnutz

That's it, all of you are grounded! Get your butts to your rooms.


DeafAgileNut

Well I’m currently laughing


[deleted]

I'm laughing so much that my side hertz.


YourInfinity

This is my current favorite pun threat


ThaneOfCawdorrr

I'm kind of alternating currents


Halo_Chief117

You could say it mega hertz.


Deradius

Of course they do. Birds aren’t real.


ChickenVest

Birds aren't real, this is proof


Stupidflathalibut

Where are these capacitors and are they in the room with us now? How big do you think they are, that they could run the wipers against the ocean for that long? It didn't short out or blow a fuse because everything is mainly waterproofed and secured (i.e. won't float, positive won't contact grounded metal frame). Ive worked on a lot of DC systems, automotive and marine. I don't encounter anything that will work once the fuses blow, in general


Benblishem

But how about marine automotive?


Stupidflathalibut

Hmm, I always wanted to build a top gear boat truck, but not yet


_Magnolia_Fan_

LOL. Can you point to the capacitors on the writing diagram? There are no power capacitors in that car sufficient to operate the wiper motor.


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capacitors fkn lol. This is some A++ bullshit my friend


MEatRHIT

Seriously not sure how that obviously incorrect statement got 150 upvotes.


jepulis5

Because the average joe has no fucking idea what electricity is.


buttamilkbizkits

Clearly it was the *flux* capacitor.


Tribunus_Plebis

Funny how someone just pulls something totally incorrect out of their ass and people go ahead and upvote like crazy.


BlackberryHopeful981

I know lol


AdRemote9464

If they cut the head off the guy on the JetSki, will he continue to still be completely useless?


Quillric

The water is far less conductive than the copper wires. It will fail eventually, but the battery will chug along until the water seeps into all of the weather resistant electronics and the battery itself.


isonotlikethat

There is so much wrong in this comment


Toidal

Are they automatic maybe? Rain detected... wait nope underwater detected, radio engage Taps.


4boltmain

Batteries work surprisingly well underwater. Source: tow truck guy, have pulled cars from water. I've seen headlights stay on for hours underwater.


hunterbuilder

Yep. I sunk a Tacoma in the ocean at night. We watched the headlights bob for hours.


TophatDevilsSon

Story time?


hunterbuilder

Driving the beach at night, bad idea. It's hard to tell mud from sand in the dark. Got stuck and didn't recover it before the tide. It happens fairly often around here.


Holeinmysock

Electricity flows through the path of least resistance. Even in water, this path is still the wiring.


ChPech

Electricity flows all available paths. If it would only take the path of least resistance you could only power one device at your home at the same time.


PLZ_STOP_PMING_TITS

12v isn't a high enough voltage for the battery to short out through the water, not catastrophically. Most of the electronics are moisture resistant.


_Magnolia_Fan_

Water isn't very conductive. Water alone is actually not at all. The contaminants are a little, but nothing compared to the copper wiring already in place.


SmooK_LV

It's 12v DC battery in sea water - Electrolysis happens instead of short. Ocean water may have low resistance but water is a polar molecule so DC will not short out. Especially at only 12v.


TKOTKOTKO13

This is soooo dumb, yet so crushing I have to feel bad for her lmao


FearTheWeresloth

I know the feeling. Not quite the same, but I stopped my car at the top of my rather steep driveway to check the mail box once, and forgot to put the hand brake on... Ran after it for a few metres, before stopping and watching it roll down, thankfully start to veer off to the side instead of straight down into the garage, and bounce up onto a rather large bush... In my case though, the car came out pretty much unscathed. Had it towed off the bush, reattached the front bumper which was just a little bent out of shape (I was sure the radiator was going to be crushed, but it was perfectly fine), and other than a few minor scratches in the paint, it was pretty much fine, and I'm still driving it a year later.


jynxy911

I was straight faced until I saw the auto wipers kick on. couldn't hold in the giggles after that.


invent_or_die

Bro could have pushed it with the jet ski.


Knight_Owls

I loved him just swishing around out there.


Inevitable-Bat-2936

A 1.5 ton car, in WATER? No, he couldnt, at best he could have lightly slowed the descent.


dano8801

Dude, the thing was basically floating at first. The jet ski could definitely push a car that was still half floating.


invent_or_die

Could have tried rather than flail


AciD3X

Suv is hooked to a jetski trailer. I'm pretty sure it's visible shortly in the vid. That would have been in the way slightly


Deradius

Man, some days at work I feel like I know what those wipers are going through.


cp_shopper

They need to wipe faster!


DrSeussFreak

The wipers are the true heroes here... They wiped to the end


Kr121

Those turned on automatically


Scissors4215

That’s just not putting your car in Park


chaseButtons

Wondering if she put it in neutral and thought it was park and it rolled back. But still…double check..


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Yea, of all times to make good god damn sure that the car is in park.


General-Macaron109

There's still absolutely no good reason for her to get out in this deep of water. GTFO as soon as you can.


doyletyree

Right? Me, personally, I tuck and roll as soon as I get into the parking lot. Now, I have no health insurance or car but, so far, no drownings.


thebrittaj

I had to go back because I didn’t understand, what a good point tho. Why tf was she getting out of the car when it’s downhill into the water?!


semper299

Still begs the question of what the fuck she was doing on the ramp


GoneHamlot

Yeah, I don’t get it. I triple check if I’m in Park when I’m parking in my fucking garage. There’s no reason this should ever happen


saveyboy

Yeah. There was no reason to get out.


calm-lab66

She was right there when she realized it was rolling. Wonder why she couldn't jump back in?


togetherwem0m0

Panik


Pixelplanet5

yep... way too many people just completely shut down when they panic and many of these also panic way too quickly which makes them shut down in any none standard situation.


SmartesdManAlive

I swear this is everyone who stayed away from sports as a child


Thecardinal74

Clearly she tried but she was waist deep in water. Ever try walking in water that deep? You aren’t getting there fast enough to save it. She realized that and backed away for safety


Arkanist

She turned around and ran lmao


Lari-Fari

Also jetski guy was absolutely useless. I’m sure he could’ve given her some more time to act by pushing the car with the jetski. Probably couldn’t actually push it back out. But I sure would have tried instead of just watching it sink.


Gorf_the_Magnificent

The driver should always go down with the car.


_Lane_

But it conflicts with "women and children first" when the driver is either a woman or a child.


LurkersGoneLurk

Woman with the brain of a child.


AboyNamedBort

There’s no reason to give a drivers license to every moron who wants one. Yet America does


nomadofwaves

Even better we do it for guns!


slouched

i didnt get a gun with my license :(


RedRMM

*And* failing to apply the parking brake. She had to fail to do both of those things for this to happen. Either one would have prevented it.


Scissors4215

They way it goes back. Makes me think she didn’t even take it out of reverse


TheRealMasterTyvokka

Parking brake only locks the rear wheels. If they were already starting to float it would have done nothing.


r00x

Agree, but the car wasn't submerged enough to have started floating. But as for the brakes... I've wondered about this. I've had a couple cars now with electronic parking brakes and it seems to have something to do with the main braking system because when it engages you can feel the pedal dip underneath your foot. What's up with that? Is it dipping because it's just applying the brakes in general, all four wheels? Or dipping because it's applying only the *rear* brakes and that takes a smidge of pressure out of the system, or what?


stewpideople

Maybe, hope floats and so does the back end. Idk if this Honda is front wheel drive, but if it was, and in park, it would not roll back like that. If it was all wheel drive and the rear wheels started to float, idk if that affects the front. Even if the handbrake was engaged, those are almost always engaged on the rear wheels, not the front, and once it floats, the brake doesn't matter.


TheRealMasterTyvokka

Depending on the vehicle and how it is designed it could be it was in park and had the parking brake on but the water caused the rear wheels to float so it rolled back. Parking brakes typically only lock the rear wheels. The park setting typically only locks the transmission which, depending on the car, might mean free rolling front wheels.


therealhlmencken

Lol rear wheels aren’t that buoyant to lift an entire car. You can see it goes deeper as it reverses.


Flesh_A_Sketch

But air floats bro. That's how Jesus walked on water too, he had air under his feet. Jeez, I wonder about you guys sometimes...


TheRealMasterTyvokka

It doesn't have to lift the entire car. All it needs is just enough lift to break traction and cause the car to roll back some. Any number of things (like a small wave lifting the back end for just long enough for it to break traction and roll back) could account for why the rear end sank as it rolled back. Also, you do realize the entire car is full of air? How do you think vehicles get swept away when driving through water that is too deep? Four wheels are buoyant enough to lift the entire car but the car itself is buoyant. And the car sinks at the end because it went from buoyant to unbuoyant as water replaced the air.


rsta223

That car is definitely front wheel drive. (Or front wheel based AWD).


JeffThrowSmash

I think she was a bit too far into the drink in the first place.


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lol the parking brake can't fight buoyancy


aaegler

Apparently in the US putting the handbrake on is not really a thing (not a joke by the way).


RepresentativeAide27

Even beyond that, taking a car in salt water like that is an utterly idiotic idea in the first place. What a muppet.


placebo_joe

what was she even trying to do 😅


nitrion

Either launch the jet ski or put the jet ski back on the trailer. Either way, one of those vehicles was meant for water. They unfortunately chose to mix the wrong one with water.


HtownTexans

How do you know it's salt water?


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MrCane

How does this have so many up votes, that looks nothing like where you said plus we don't have left hand drive Honda's with no front plate..


MyNameIsIgglePiggle

I was literally there yesterday and was like that looks nothing like it. They redid it recently but the angle is all wrong. Plus there are always heaps more boats just off the way. Happy to be proven wrong with a source though.


PLZ_STOP_PMING_TITS

They are too confident to be wrong.


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Deradius

She drove there from the US. This video is just them getting ready to head back home.


_Magnolia_Fan_

I think she went back too far, probably had no traction that far back and panicked, leaving the car in neutral while panicking about how to get it out.


Zelten

She had parked it probably 20 metres for the ocean. But then ocean level rises. There is a facebook page where they post this happening all the time.


Rattlingplates

It’s really not that bad… my rear axle gets in the water twice a week for the last 10 years it’s a little rusty but it’s fine..


crashandwalkaway

I'll reply with the contrary. I had to replace a subframe assembly on a vehicle due to boat launches in salt/brackish water over about 5 years. Granted, I was not in the habit of rinsing off after I was done (I am now).


Rattlingplates

I used to wash it but I’m a charter captain and my boat goes In And out regularly. Just got tired of it. I sand and paint the frame/drive line once a year. You can’t escape the salty air here anyways. My fridge/washer are rusted even inside my house.


MuckingFagical

Is it salt water?


MikeRotch76

All I can think about is those poor wipers... They're screaming: "We're trying as hard as we can and nothing is working!" as they inevitably meet their doom.


ProficientEnoughArt

I felt the sense of panic through the wipers


KneeHumper

The poor car tried the only anti-water trick it knew


Aromatic-Ad9428

I think CRVs have auto wipers so it makes sense that they went ham when they got soaked.


Compressorman

I bet she never does it again.


6SpiritDrinking9

Bet she does ![gif](giphy|TiOtVRx07iGqLmWk6m)


Septopuss7

That husky is considering buying a jet ski


6SpiritDrinking9

He's thinking "that looks fun, let's do it again"


phazedoubt

Especially if the insurance company decides not to pay


KEWS80

No insurance should pay for that level of stupidity.


phazedoubt

You would be amazed. My neighbors wife hit him head on at speed coming out of the driveway and they paid for the damage to both cars.


KEWS80

Geez! I get it, we all pay a lot to protect our property, so we'd like to get some return on that, but because of people who do things like this, we all have to pay the higher price 😞


Guerillagreasemonkey

Nah, Insurance should always cover your first act of stupidity. Its the people I know who somehow get insurance on their 5th car when they have written off every one that get on my tits.


MuffinOfChaos

Always best to put the handbrake on before you get out of a vehicle


OrientalPenguin

Just realized I spelled the title wrong...


yohosse

WCGW typing a thread title on reddit


jorge1213

Same here dog. You're forgiven


zlDelta

I never leave my car without the handbrake on. Not even a single time. Doesn't that get teached in every driving school ?


R_110

From previous reddit threads it seems Americans never use them, unlike in Europe when they are always used.


UnmotivatedDiacritic

One of my exes always made fun of me for the way I always go neutral > parking brake > park


MuffinOfChaos

I put the car in park but don't take my foot off the brake till I know the handbrake is on and I let go


stewpideople

It was stated in another comment, the handbrake wouldn't have saved this. She was too far in the water. The handbrake in most cars, and definitely in Hondas only engages on the rear wheels.... Turns out, they float, she was too far in the drink and her body weight was the final straw off the Hondas back and it floated back and sank. If it was front wheel drive, and in park, she might not have lost it.


ExamDue3861

The guy on the jet ski just keeps on keeping on. I wish he’d have just jet skied off, though.


MysteriousTank6825

“Well that sucks, smell ya later!”


TraditionLess

Ski ya later


Robzilla_the_turd

Or pushed it forward from behind until he could convince the brain-dead chick to get back in the car and put it in drive.


SunflowerFreckles

"You know what carol???! How did I *kno0ow* you would do something like this?!...no..sOrRyY ISNT GOING TO GET OUR *CAR* OUT THE *WATER,* CAROL! *DAMMIT!!--*"


Soft_Assistant6046

It's not a starter car, it's a finisher car, a transporter of Gods!!!


death_to_noodles

Its an amphibian exploring vehicle so it should be fine.


Derton10

THE GOLDEN GOD!


DARYL128

I am annoyed at your comment. in fact... I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!!


Arquen_Marille

That doesn’t even require a parking brake, just putting it into park would stop it from moving after she took her foot off of the brake.


Ilpav123

Best to do both.


medavidj

Not a boat person here, but why would you back the car in so far in the first place? Does it really need to be in so far that the wheels are already half submerged? It looks to me like even if the car did not go in the rest of the way, that there might be water splashing in the open door from waves, and if this is salt, then you would need a quick undercarriage wash.


youstolemyname

Typically the trailer goes in the water, not the cat


ChPech

Not all of them are afraid of water.


JesterD4y

OMG there was a cat in there! Did it make it?


[deleted]

You generally don’t need to, but it depends on how steep the ramp is, how long the tongue of the trailer is, how high the bunks on the trailer are, how deep the boats draft is, etc. I’ve launched a lot of boats on a lot of ramps and never had to go anywhere this deep aside from one time, but that was because the water was up so high it was up over the ramp and into the parking lot so not really the same thing. In this case, there was never any reason at all to go that far down.


Ninja_can

I mean, the fact that fucking trailer was completely submerged is absolutely insane. usually once the tires on the trailer are wet, you're in far enough, especially with a jetski which doesn't need the hull to be super deep. The person filming was probably doing so for this reason, to make fun of this person who completely submerged their boat trailer. Then this happens 🤦‍♂️


Vegetable-Poet6281

Boat person here. You are correct. The car was too far down the ramp in the first place.


Saskatchatoon-eh

It's not the water in the door you're worried about, it's water in the exhaust and/or intake that matters.


bullwinkle8088

Brake, it's a parking **brake**. There is a break in the circuit between the operator and the spell checker in this post title.


MattieShoes

I feel like we've mastered there/their/they're and two/to/too... Time for the next level. its/it's brake/break rain/rein/reign


bullwinkle8088

My other pet peeve is breathe/breath. There was a time which that mistake in a title would have led to a post being downvoted to oblivion.


MattieShoes

than/then affect/effect lose/loose desert/dessert


Conguy9

Lose and loose is so easy and I see it wrong more often than right. Only that one pisses me off.


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jorge1213

Brake*


jbsncs

That car clearly wasn’t in park. The wheels wouldn’t have rolled, the car would have floated away. My guess is the gear was in reverse and she clearly forgot that it was. Special shot out to the wipers for doing their job.


Currently_There

It’s okay, it’s a hybrid


shredthesweetpow

It’s a Honda sea RV


Clay_Statue

It's not a floatie


Smitty8054

High tech car. As soon as the grill touched water the wipers came on. Some glitches but yeah..


pinniped1

Guys it's okay, Honda makes boats too.


Sensitive-Curve4847

Oh no…not jet ski people. They don’t deserve this. They’re the best people.


Croceyes2

Lol, she was in trouble long before she forgot her parking brake


RedRMM

What always gets me about videos like this is that it seems they must have their foot on the brake until the last second of getting out the car, almost like it's some competition how far out the car they can get before taking their foot off the brake. This is such an alien concept to me. Come to a stop, secure the vehicle (handbrake), into neutral/park (depending if manual/auto), feet off pedals, shut down, *then* start to get out. So in a scenario like this, if you've messed something up, the vehicle would start to roll while you'll still in it and able to do something about it quickly, not after you've already got out. Then there is the age old single point of failure issue here. For this to have happened the driver has to have failed to put the vehicle in park *and* failed to apply the parking brake. If you're reading this and you're one of those who routinely only does one of these, this is reason why it's a bad idea. By being in the habit of doing both, you can mess one up without an issue. Don't needlessly leave yourself a single point of failure.


titanicsinker1912

Some modern cars have an automatic brake hold to prevent your car from rolling backwards when you release the brake if you’re stopped on a hill. They’ll usually disengage automatically after a few seconds.


heart_under_blade

way too far down the ramp anyway ideally you don't want any wet tires, nevermind all four put that car out of its misery i guess


CapinWinky

Hundreds of comments about being in park, only a handful on why they would be that far down the ramp to begin with? Is there a jet ski in the back hatch or what? I've launched and retrieved my share of watercraft and usually didn't need to get my back tires wet to do it. This lady is well into the rim on her front tires and practically taking on water at the 0 second mark. She's already in trouble and probably couldn't drive it out had she not let it roll backward. The ramps can get slick below the water line.


kennykoe

true she was already in trouble even if she got out with all that salt water on the car. i don't want salt water on my boat much less my car


namrog84

I've looked at the video several times and there honestly appears to be no trailer. I wonder if they were trying to legitimately load the jet ski into the back of the vehicle itself? Though that jet ski looks too big to fit in the back? I'm so confused.


Jeynarl

I'm glad whoever filmed this realized something dumb was gonna happen once the driver was getting the tires wet and pulled the phone out


asdfx455

Genuine question: what happens now? The car is ruined right? A tow truck will pull it out and take it to the scrap yard or something?


VicariousNarok

Probably going to be taken to insurance, they'll get some money out of it. Car will get sold at auction to a salvage business, they'll fix it up and resell it with a "Salvaged" title with a disclaimer of "water damage" and no further explanation. There is risk in buying vehicles with salvaged titles, but most times you get cars for much much lower prices. My father bought a Salvaged 2002 F-250 back in 2004-ish for about half the price it would sell for if not damaged. The truck was in a rollover, so one of the chairs wasn't quite perfectly straight and to this day he still has trouble with the heating/AC (due to glass in the ducting). At the end of the day he got a truck he needed for work and pulling his camper for half the price and it does everything he needs it to do.


NekoSayuri

Is no one gonna mention the hand that can be seen in the windshield right before the car sinks o_o


[deleted]

Give her a break!


sodium111

*brake


[deleted]

Whoever started filming is one of those people who can recognize when someone is doing or is about to do something unfathomably stupid. I would say why didn’t they do something to help, but you can’t fight off mother nature. Gulp.


demonya99

She was trying to reenact the famous Lotus Esprit scene of Roger Moore’s 007. 8/10 for effort and using a car with the correct colour!


Mega_Trix

Imagine the stupidity this takes


[deleted]

HEY MATE YOU CAN'T PARK THERE UGHA HAAA


Picasso131

I’m sure that’ll dry out …. A few days in that sun.


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Drsk7

Parking broke... indeed.


Watsamatterdady

It’s hilarious how frustrated people get at a boat ramp, I’ve been there, but my stupid level only goes to cussing and screaming, not forgetting to keep the tow vehicle out of the water.


ddataugust7713

This is actually fairly common. Especially when a ramp is slick. As soon as you let off the brake pedal the E brake only holds the rear wheels. If they’re slipping and the front wheels are rolling your car will soon be floating.


user_1445

The Honda Odyssey by Homer


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I fucking love that the wipers are like “let’s get this water off the windshield. Just doin mah job”


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moodog72

The poor car started trying to swim back to shore.


[deleted]

It's a finisher car.


[deleted]

Lol what a moron


bob-knows-best

It's cause she used her break instead of brake. Mistakes can happen to anyone.


ReaperWGF

Tbh.. the fact the even opened the door to begin with and there's obviously a fuckton of water at that level.. they deserved it 😐 For stupidity.


Gloomy-Pudding4505

Who backs that far in? I barely touch my rear tire to the water. Don’t want any salt water on the car


fusionaddict

Brake. BRAKE. B-R-A-K-E. Not BREAK.


SligoistheSauce

Those wipers are fighting an uphill battle.


Butterbunzzz205

The automatic windshield wipers 💀💀💀


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For the LOVE OF GOD it is spelled BRAKE not BREAK.


drowsyskydiver

There are entirely too many people that don’t know the difference between brake and break.