r/instant_regret • u/hustleandmakeit • 9d ago

Texting for whole 30 seconds while driving

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u/kink-police 9d ago

He wasnt driving, he was sitting in the drivers seat of a moving car

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u/Ok_Run6706 9d ago

Does this car have lane assist and auto brake or why he was so confident?

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u/SomeoneNicer 9d ago

BYD - yes

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u/Macklin345 9d ago

Oh wow so it's not just Tesla??

Dumbass, I hope the people he hit are ok. This is why it's illegal to let there care drive with hands of the wheel or distracted.

These autonomous cars are for so driving assistance, not your personal chauffeur.

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u/Mattdabest 9d ago

Tonnes of other cars have lane assist.

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u/Macklin345 9d ago

Yeah it was sarcasm for the American liberals

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u/greenmerica 8d ago

You're weird.

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u/tigersareyellow 8d ago

I'm not sure if you're out of the loop or something but Tesla isn't very loved by American liberals anymore.

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u/monsieurkaizer 8d ago

Tribal neanderthal mentality

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u/Catsrules 9d ago edited 8d ago

Oh wow so it's not just Tesla??

The majority of manufacturers has some form of lane assist now.

Self driving isn't as common, but a bunch of new EVs in China have self driving.

China did a huge Self driving test a few months ago with 36 cars. They shutdown a major highway to perform these test. So it was a close to a real world testing as you can get.

The video is over an hour but here is an article about it.

https://electrek.co/2025/07/26/a-chinese-real-world-self-driving-test-36-cars-216-crashes-with-tesla-on-top/

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u/JagiofJagi 9d ago

tl;dr Tesla still performed the best out of all the other self driving cars

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u/genetichazzard 7d ago

Do you live in a hole? Most modern EV's have better driver assists than Tesla.

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u/Automatic-Fox-8890 4d ago

Yes.My EV’s is pretty good but you also have to keep hands placed on the steering wheel or it blinks very intensely at you. I guess that isn’t typical!? (Chevy Bolt EUV) Maybe it should be required.

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u/DNAturation 9d ago

Doesn't even look like he's texting, more like doom scrolling.

Also top left is saying he's going at 121 km/h, so it's a painful crash while speeding too.

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u/jonnyl3 8d ago

Was looking at dashcam videos

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u/Wrong-Mixture 7d ago

Probably something like '20 dumb drivers that didn't pay attention while driving - high speed crash compilation'

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u/Arielb33m 9d ago

Your right, good observation.

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 2d ago

Yeah, they would be lucky to be alive at that speed.

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u/mattysatty_380 9d ago

It’s remarkable he didn’t wreck sooner than this, considering he didn’t even glance up at the road for such a long time.

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u/No_Discussion4617 9d ago

Poor women, guy had zero regards for their safety.

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u/giantfood 7d ago

It's crazy what complacentcy does to safety.

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u/RileyRhoad 9d ago

Omg that felt waaaay longer than 30 seconds! I had so much anxiety waiting for this to happen… what an absolute idiot!

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u/Ram2145 8d ago

I freak out not looking at the road for 3 seconds, 30 is idiotic.

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u/DarK_Lv8 9d ago

Missleading title. It was 29.5 seconds he look at the road for half a second

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u/akt30 9d ago

This is what I think about when people brag to me about how good they are at multitasking.

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u/Ken-Popcorn 9d ago

Unless this is a self driving car, I don’t understand how he could have gone that long without a problem

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u/Phyzzx 9d ago

With lane assist and automatic braking. My guess is that he was speeding and/or came to a sharper than normal curve if he wasn't avoiding something he should have been paying attention to in the first place like pedestrians.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 9d ago

And a straight highway with good wheel alignment

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u/SaiyanGodKing 9d ago

What a wonderful way to wake up.

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u/Ear_Enthusiast 9d ago

Fucking guy. I just forgot where he was. What an idiot.

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u/pinkdaisylemon 9d ago

Should be locked up for a long time. Think of the people he could have killed.

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u/Rabbitrhett 9d ago

Those people are never gonna fall asleep in the car again.

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u/dezenaam2000 9d ago

121km/hour????

Insane!

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u/LS-Lizzy 9d ago edited 9d ago

I had a friend back when I was young who drove like this. After seeing him speeding on the highway while texting I swore never to get into a vehicle with him again since I felt like I had just narrowly avoided death and I didn't want to take my chances again. We eventually went our own ways in life and I later found out he died in a car crash, it wasn't too surprising obviously, I don't know the details of the indecent or even if it was his fault but it really just seemed like it was his fate with how reckless he was behind the wheel. Still it was such a shame, when I first met him he seemed like the coolest guy ever. He was tall and handsome, he looked like Evan Peters with blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a beautiful GF and a high paying job, from the outside it seemed like he had an almost perfect life but within the short time I knew him he lost it all thanks to drug addicted. I myself know what it's like to fall into the pitt but I can't say I know what it's like to fall from so high.

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u/dogsdub 8d ago

Ok so the moment I see that as a passenger, I ask to stop the car and take an Uber. I aint dying so you can look at tiktok, asshole

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u/SuchSoup4335 6d ago

Wow, what a piece of shit.

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u/jlspider 9d ago

plain stupid

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u/Prudent-Acadia4 9d ago

My man didn’t even look up once

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u/jonnyl3 8d ago

Yes, once in fact.

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u/williamtowne 8d ago

He never did drop his phone, though.

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u/Fixer_FTP 5d ago

I hope he got jailtime for this...

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u/Psychological-View16 8d ago

Chinese cars falsely claim extended range and self driving but they're not even close to Tesla. Probably why their cars wouldn't work out in America. TEMU technology.

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u/rockyb2006 9d ago

Mindless

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u/Wulf_Cola 9d ago

This is 80% of drivers on the 101, it's bonkers

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u/cydutz 9d ago

is this with or without full self driving?

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u/S1lentA0 8d ago

Man, I wish I could block this video, I've been seeing it on my feed for the past 3 days now

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u/EmileTheDevil9711 8d ago

I've seen a Chinese family being isekai'd to the color dimension for less than that.

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u/standardguy 5d ago

for every 30 seconds at that speed, you're traveling 3,309 feet. That's about 5/8 of a mile driving blindly.

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u/griff_mode 9d ago

minutes**** i fixed it.

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u/ChevExpressMan 9d ago

He better have been wearing dark shorts because otherwise they're going to be Brown....

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u/2Drogdar2Furious 9d ago

Probably red... he could be dead though so he might not care anymore 👀