A new record from NYC to LA in a car. Guess their time before clicking

Is this not something they can be arrested for after the fact?

You’d think that a cop wouldn’t even need to “clock” them. If you’re going 120mph they can just visually tell something is up. They might not be able to give you a ticket, but I’m sure they could stop you on some premise just to scare you and slow you down.

Also, the western half of the country, outside of the coasts, is quite desolate if you pick the right route. In western CO/ eastern UT, you can easily go 120, sounds crazy to city folk.

FjwLTx wrote:

wejo wrote:

And I had to laugh at secondary headline: "Cannonball purists are criticizing the run as grossly irresponsible while the nation deals with an emergency of unseen magnitude."

At least one person was reasonable though, saying that he wouldn't criticize it because it would be like a cocaine dealer criticizing a heroine dealer or something like that.

That ‘someone’ was actually Ed Bolian, former record holder, YouTube legend, and founder of VINwiki.

You could go that fast but you're closing on drivers at a rate of 50 mph or so, which becomes incredibly unsafe, which is why that Supercar couldn't even get out of Manhattan.

I watched some videos on youtube about this topic. Basically, the passengers job is to look for cops. Phone apps, radar detectors, binoculars, radios. They have several gas tanks and they will fill them all at the same time at the gas station. I remember one vinwiki video where Ed was talking about his card being declined and it was this huge deal and they had to make all these phone calls and it took forever, but they finally made it out of the gas station in 12 minutes or something like that.

wejo wrote:

dunes runner wrote:

122 miles per hour is crazy.

Where do you get 122 mph? Most direct route looks to be 2789 miles. Or do they go way out of the way to avoid cities? Seems like they could easily kill someone driving that fast.

But this is nuts.

And I had to laugh at secondary headline: "Cannonball purists are criticizing the run as grossly irresponsible while the nation deals with an emergency of unseen magnitude."

Driving across the country at 122 mph is way more irresponsible than breaking any sort of quarantine laws. Not sure if they actually broke any of those.

How the F did they not get tickets.

Nah, autobahn cars regularly go faster than this. And they have way less accidents then American highways. I like how letsrun can actually agree with a topic for once - driving fast, in your lane isn't significantly more dangerous then driving somewhat fast, in your lane, and both are way safer than driving the speed limit, eating a burger, talking to friends and messing with the radio.

Two cars have now gone under 26 hours.

https://youtu.be/r-bhmioV5NQ?t=523

djfjdjdj wrote:

You’d think that a cop wouldn’t even need to “clock” them. If you’re going 120mph they can just visually tell something is up. They might not be able to give you a ticket, but I’m sure they could stop you on some premise just to scare you and slow you down.

Also, the western half of the country, outside of the coasts, is quite desolate if you pick the right route. In western CO/ eastern UT, you can easily go 120, sounds crazy to city folk.

haha what? I live in a small city in the east and regularly go 100+ right through town. Never had a speeding ticket.

Wow. I'd like to hear more of the technical and planning aspects of some of these runs. It would be interesting to see overlay maps of routes and speeds throughout these and recent attempts.

I don't have the nerve to risk the legal consequences. I still find it fascinating.

Cannonball Run wrote:

Wow. I'd like to hear more of the technical and planning aspects of some of these runs. It would be interesting to see overlay maps of routes and speeds throughout these and recent attempts.

I don't have the nerve to risk the legal consequences. I still find it fascinating.

The story on the 26:55 run is out. He's an experienced Cannonballer who did the opposite of many previous successes - minimal preparation, a rental car, and a solo run:

While the prep was 'minimal' his experience was key. Interesting R&T article. I like the quote about the GT topping out at 159mph. The man has balls as Lauren Fleshman might say. I can't imaging trying to post updates while driving at speed unless they were sent automatically. Solo sounds crazy. But I wouldn't want to be the copilot in any of these endeavors.

Don't buy a silver Mustang GT off rental

More about the solo run:

https://youtu.be/EvQFDtJUdHw

Rental car prep:

https://youtu.be/NGI0BFMT4bU

djfjdjdj wrote:

You’d think that a cop wouldn’t even need to “clock” them. If you’re going 120mph they can just visually tell something is up. They might not be able to give you a ticket, but I’m sure they could stop you on some premise just to scare you and slow you down.

Also, the western half of the country, outside of the coasts, is quite desolate if you pick the right route. In western CO/ eastern UT, you can easily go 120, sounds crazy to city folk.

In the western half of the country they are doing 170 to make up for only doing 90mph in the more populated areas.

Love it. Motorized FKT.

I live less than a mile from the freeway where they go through LA. I've spent a few Saturday nights on a hill, watching, and think I've seen one or two of these attempts the past few months.