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Thread: Somebody's M5 got punted off the road...

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    Somebody's M5 got punted off the road...

    Let me get this straight... You are swapping out parts designed by hundreds of engineers that get paid thousands of dollars for something you bought at Pep Boys because your buddy who doesn't have a job told you it was 'better'?!?

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    holy cow. it looks like those idiots filming rolled right through that stop. Looked like a two way.



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    4 way..I was wrong
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    that was a 4 way stop, filming car was a tesla model S. the M5 rolled and ended up quite a distance down the road.
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    4 way. M5's quality headlamps illuminated the signage on the road in front of it.

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    well in all honesty, H6, that Tesla rolled through the stop sign too. However methinks that M5 may have been speeding.
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    man... two absolute morons... who is at fault?
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    Quote Originally Posted by m3j0n View Post
    man... two absolute morons... who is at fault?
    Logic would say both, but Ill bet insurance says neither.
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    wow, your right, it is a 4 way. Well, thankfully the S wasn't out another ten feet. That could have been a casualty.



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    A little too close for comfort.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudolph320i View Post
    Logic would say both, but Ill bet insurance says neither.
    We always joked," logically, if you're sure you are the 1st car at a 4 way stop,why stop??", and who goes 1st if all 4 cars stop together??

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    Quote Originally Posted by 325bob View Post
    We always joked," logically, if you're sure you are the 1st car at a 4 way stop,why stop??", and who goes 1st if all 4 cars stop together??
    Yea thats a big issue at 4 way stops, of course the worst is when a traffic light goes out. In that event, may God be with you.
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    Clearly it was a E60, so no actual loss incurred.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stück View Post
    Clearly it was a E60, so no actual loss incurred.
    Zing.
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    Tesla driver does a californian roll thru a stop sign (while bragging about his e-range) while the teenager blows past thru stop sign doing 60mph ish. What could possibly go wrong?

    At least the outcome is not bad, could've been much worse if M5 t-boned tesla
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    Couldnt have been a Tesla, not enough inferno.

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    Just because the video starts with the car moving, it obviously means they blew the stop sign.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Chinman View Post
    Just because the video starts with the car moving, it obviously means they blew the stop sign.
    The video CLEARLY starts with them behind the marked STOP line... they rolled right through it

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    Quote Originally Posted by 325bob View Post
    ...who goes 1st if all 4 cars stop together??
    I believe this is covered in every driver handbook out there: "If more than one vehicle arrives at the same time, the vehicle on the right goes first." If all vehicles arrive at the exact same time, the BMW goes first.

    Quote Originally Posted by BimmerBreaker View Post
    The video CLEARLY starts with them behind the marked STOP line... they rolled right through it
    Well, you're supposed to pull up the sign and stop, then proceed, however it's possible they're one of those idiots that never pull up the light or stop sign and always stop a car length back.
    Not so much a signature as a cry for help.

    Hold on, saw this in a cartoon once...think I can pull it off.

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    would love to see pics of the m5.
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    This is exactly why you come to a full stop (and also why you don't blast completely through it).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudolph320i View Post
    that was a 4 way stop, filming car was a tesla model S. the M5 rolled and ended up quite a distance down the road.
    Where did you get this information? Sources please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PRKelly View Post
    Where did you get this information? Sources please.

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    sadly i dont have the website anymore, it was linked on reddit and the article included the police report
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudolph320i View Post
    sadly i dont have the website anymore, it was linked on reddit and the article included the police report
    Would of liked to see pics of both cars after that .
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    Quote Originally Posted by MrBlackonWhite View Post
    Would of liked to see pics of both cars after that .
    http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60...a-model-s.html

    The M5 was really just a pile of parts after that...
    Let me get this straight... You are swapping out parts designed by hundreds of engineers that get paid thousands of dollars for something you bought at Pep Boys because your buddy who doesn't have a job told you it was 'better'?!?

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