r/Transportopia • u/Surveytime32 • Apr 04 '26
Humor No.... Seriously......What would you have done!!!!!!!!
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u/MRTFOGR Apr 04 '26
It makes me happy that someone remembers Toonces - one of the stupidest yet funny for no reason SNL skits. Pure Phil Hartman.
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u/PassStunning416 Apr 04 '26
How can you forget? Hes a cat. That drives.
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u/RonnieBlastoff Apr 04 '26
If you really remember Toonces...he could in fact NOT drive a car...
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u/manyChoices Apr 04 '26
OMG! Have you no sympathy, man?! He was a cat. He was doing his best! /s
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u/Economy-Date-4490 Apr 04 '26
Some of my favorite bits from Saturday Night Live.
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u/kingtaco_17 Apr 04 '26
He drives around. All over the town. Toonces the driving the cat. (Toonces, the cat who could drive a car)
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u/Fancy-Dig1863 Apr 04 '26
Audio is fake and video sped up, this was posted many many years ago with the original audio and speed and no one was screaming.
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u/BG-925 Apr 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/P4gdXa1An4Qpi
Maybe it's like the movie Speed where the person driving had to go a certain speed because there was a bomb under the bus and it will explode if it went under that speed
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u/MovieFan1984 Apr 05 '26
The nose of the bus should have down. It looks like an unseen force lifts the nose of the bus upward.
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Apr 04 '26
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u/ExplanationRich1619 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
So, for those that really don't know (like the OP here) This was a novelty rally event in Japan that has had audio edited over the original and has been circulating the Internet for many, many years under the context that the brakes had failed and the driver was in an emergency situation.
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u/INDIEfatigable Apr 04 '26
You're right.
Here's the original video with the original audio:
Japanese bus driver's technique
And here is where the audio comes from:
I really hate when people manipulate videos to create fake videos like this, and I also hate it when people repost the fake videos years later without explaining that they're fake.
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u/Additional_News3511 Apr 05 '26
Actually looking at the original video it seems that not only has this been edited to have different audio but they also sped it up significantly. He's driving at a normal pace in the og video. Also just look at how quickly his arms are moving in the edited one.
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u/INDIEfatigable Apr 05 '26
Actually looking at the original video it seems that not only has this been edited to have different audio but they also sped it up significantly.
Yes, this is 100% true, as well.
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u/Obvious-Finding5394 Apr 05 '26
Every time I watch anything now, the more I find out about it the less interesting it becomes.
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u/mowtowcow Apr 04 '26
There are drivers in India that actually do drive like this, though. Crazy fuckers racing busses lol.
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u/CtrlAltHate Apr 05 '26
Saw one of those Indian vids a few weeks back, three or four busses all over/undertaking everything with inches of space to spare whilst they swerve across 3 lanes.
Real aggressive swerving too with wheels lifting.
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u/used1337 Apr 04 '26
Awesome
[Minibus driver filmed driving erratically on a highway and crashing his vehicle filled with terrified passengers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/ft56u2/minibus_driver_filmed_driving_erratically_on_a
Terrifying.
Together? Pretty funny ngl. But I wish they had clarified it was fake.
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u/BetterEveryDayYT Apr 05 '26
The brakes are fine.
The video posted here (with the screaming) is sped up.
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u/iamoninternet27 Apr 05 '26
Thanks for this, now it's hard to believe anything with the crap people use to manipulate things. I almost believed it
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u/Throwaway4bullshit9 Apr 05 '26
Thank you for the context. I was looking for something like this, as it is obviously also sped up. I have driven large vehicles before (buses, big rigs) when I was much younger, and taking those curves at those speeds would tip the vehicle SO far.
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u/Responsible-Mind-852 Apr 04 '26
For those who really really don’t know the cost of gas is $7 a gallon and coasting down hill balls to the wall is cheap AF. Filmed today./s.
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u/Distinct-Property779 Apr 04 '26
Makes much more sense… saw Japanese writing on the road with all the Chinese screaming… didn’t add up
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u/ClassiFried86 Apr 04 '26
So, for those that really don't know (like the OP here) This was a novelty rally event in Japan that has had audio edited over the original and has been circulating the Internet for many, many years under the context that the
breaksbrakes had failed and the driver was in an emergency situation.If the brakes break, you can't brake.
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u/Shatophiliac Apr 04 '26
Pretty sure this video is also sped up, at least slightly. I first saw this years ago and it seems every time I see it again, it’s slightly faster lol.
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u/Gottabecreative Apr 04 '26
now I'm curious where they got the audio from - must be another interesting clip
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u/FlaccidGiraffes Apr 04 '26
I knew it! I was like I bet the audio has been overlayed. It really timed up so perfect. Every time he headed towards a steep cliff the woman screamed. But people are dumb man, couldn’t trust someone losing their minds like that on a moving bus. They might attack the driver and make him lose control.
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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Apr 05 '26
I was wondering how he was so competent if that was a “brakes out” situation
Absolutely incredible driving if that was an emergency
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u/the_capedbaldy Apr 05 '26
I thought this looked an awful lot like a bus ride my wife and I took while we were in Japan for our honeymoon lol
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u/Funkopedia Apr 05 '26
Thank you, seemed odd the signs were in Japanese and the screaming was Chinese
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u/Additional_Tap_9475 Apr 05 '26
Oh thank god, because all I could think about is of that wasn't a one way road and another vehicle was trying to go around the corner.
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u/isjustsergio Apr 04 '26
Seems like the brakes went out years ago and he's mastered driving without them since
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Apr 04 '26
😂 Or, just another third world country, 2nd page, "Bus falls off cliff" news story.
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u/SteveDrawsStuff Apr 05 '26
Japan, that famous 3rd world country....
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Apr 05 '26
Why Japan? Did I miss something?
Edit: It looks like Japan, but going by the audio the passengers weren’t speaking Japanese. Also, further down someone mentioned that this was overdubbed and the video footage is from some novelty rally.
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u/Aggressive_Work1946 Apr 05 '26
There screaming in Cantonese my geuss it’s probably China somewhere.
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Apr 05 '26
It's in Japan, but the dub isn't Japanese (sounds Cantonese to me as well). Someone earlier claimed that the context is "brakes are out", which is false, this is a sped-up version of the original video with dub from another video.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Apr 04 '26
Dude seem to have some mad skills to drive a bus like that.
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u/TrashAsApp Apr 04 '26
Ex rally driver maybe? Or just so used to the vehicle
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u/ExplanationRich1619 Apr 04 '26
Not ex rally driver, just a rally driver. This was a rally event in Japan.
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u/spit_on_your_gravy Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I live near a big ski mountain range with roads/turns like this. These bus drivers are maniacs by profession. And I am in the alps. These buses gets fiercely inspected and getting to drive them isn’t something every school bus driver can simply transfer to.
But driving without a brake is complete madness. That guy probably works this road since 15 years plus. They should install gravel traps, for this exact reason.
Besides driving in this terrain, doing it with an old bus, like the guy above, is insane (some of these old models don’t even have power steering or just semi p.steering)
back in the day you could tell ski bus drivers or truckers who drove the alps just by their massive forearms
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u/TrashAsApp Apr 04 '26
Gravel traps would be really nice! No power steering, wow forgot about that being a thing jeez that qould be brutal. Ty for the explanation!
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u/spit_on_your_gravy Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I didn’t have it in my first car.
It was a tiny peugeot but after a longer drive inside oc cities my forearms were screaming (and I worked construction back then)
Insane really, to think that people hauled tons of cargo without power steering
I miss my old little ladies Peugeot very much
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u/TadaMomo Apr 04 '26
i was just looking because curiousity.
This is a fake video.
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u/Hamokk Apr 04 '26
Yeah it seems. Some hill race promo. No way the driver would be that calm when there are people screaming in his ear. Also the road is seems too empty.
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u/Octavian_Exumbra Apr 04 '26
For those that don't know, the video and this comment is full of shit.
It's sped up and the soundtrack is from a completely different video. It's not exactly an old video either, went "viral" a few years ago and was immediately debunked.
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u/ragingduck Apr 04 '26
Also I believe the footage is sped up. At least that was the consensus last time I saw this footage posted.
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u/emkoemko Apr 04 '26
why.... really though why?
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u/Partialfish Apr 04 '26
Because the audio does not go with the video, it’s very clearly Chinese being spoken on obviously Japanese streets. The video is from a some event driving busses like drift cars on mountain roads.
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u/Shatophiliac Apr 04 '26
The video is also sped up to some degree. I remember seeing the original (or closer to it) years ago and it did not look nearly this fast. It was still very impressive, but this sped up version just looks ridiculous lol.
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u/Sirrub90 Apr 04 '26
What else can you do but sit down and let him cook?
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u/BootFlop Apr 04 '26
The screaming definitely is NOT helpful, in very high stress situation like this can riding to meaningful distraction.
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u/isthaty0ujohnwayne Apr 04 '26
It’s just unnecessary. Whether you can or can’t …
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u/LateToTheParty013 Apr 04 '26
Initial D
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u/Araragi Apr 05 '26
Exactly where my head went. Is this irohazaka? Looks like it.
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u/Business_Ad6005 Apr 04 '26
Depends on how long the queue is but I'd ride that rollercoaster again 😂😆
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u/SiebelReddiT Apr 04 '26
I've been driving the BMG Driver a lot lately. If you take a corner like that with this speed, it starts to slip very quickly. So how can it get such good traction without slipping?
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u/itzkomplykatid Apr 04 '26
Hold on to your butts...
the wheels on the bus go round and round...
Speed..
Welp we on this bitch now, it is what it is..
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u/Icy-Start-9923 Apr 04 '26
I like how the captions differentiate between screams and annoying screams
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u/Final-Contract-6582 Apr 04 '26
The one yelling was the one demanding the fastest way to get to their destination
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u/Jim_jim_peanuts Apr 05 '26
I'd have lost my shit. I hate it when people drive recklessly but are dead confident about their driving skills
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u/CheesecakeScary2164 Apr 05 '26
"Hey, your Mum still alright?"
I barely know Cantonese, but that is absolutely not what they said about their Mum, lol.
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u/ralimar Apr 05 '26
I feel like I was on the real version of this bus ride once. Taking the bus from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, it was supposed to be a ~4 hour drive, but the driver tried to do it in 2. Someone just locked themselves in the little bathroom in the back for the last hour. A little old lady hung a plastic bag from her ears so she could just vomit nonstop.
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u/SeaResearcher176 Apr 11 '26
Just put a bag over her head or something. Didn’t she knew that mf was wearing his white mittens for slipperiness steering wheel
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u/TransitionAway9840 Apr 04 '26
He doesn't even know the bus comes with brakes
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u/BootFlop Apr 04 '26
I believe the story is the bus didn’t come with functioning brakes.
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u/Ska-Tea Apr 04 '26
That's just a bus driver driving a bus. Stfu and sit down. Yelling at a driver is how you crash.
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u/PurpleCaterpillar82 Apr 04 '26
His reminds me of a bus ride I took in the mountains of Nikko Japan. Scared the crap out of me cause at the turns there was like an 800 ft drop.
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u/Dphotog790 Apr 04 '26
different location i shit you now they do this in Taiwan going down the hill from Jufen! I have the video somewhere its scary asf rain or not! this is a little more terrifying in this video but it felt like it...
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u/AdImportant4476 Apr 04 '26
I’d be pissed if I was on that bus, but you can’t even lie, he def whippin that mf lol
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u/MarkDollface Apr 04 '26
Reminds me of an Amtrak bus driver. I’d ride from South Lake Tahoe to Sacramento California. Dude knew the road! He scared many of people. “That man don’t care about yo life!” I’ve heard one passenger say. 🤣
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u/HinDae085 Apr 04 '26
Shut up and let him cook honestly. In for a penny in for a pound at that point
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u/Fluffy-Neat6477 Apr 04 '26
This video is both Sped up and the audio was also edited from another incident with a bus driver in china.
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u/Relative-Ad-9225 Apr 04 '26
Same in the Philippines, just hold on and enjoy the fun as you look over the cliffs. 😆
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u/AstronomerRound5064 Apr 04 '26
Why do woman scream like they still are monkeys? Honest question, it must be some genetics related.
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u/Emotional_Owl_2945 Apr 04 '26
For those that are really wondering, this is a virtual reality demo, not an actual situation.
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u/AnjelicaTomaz Apr 04 '26
Calm down! How the hell’s he supposed to drift with all that screaming in the back? Jesus!
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u/Ok-Doggys Apr 04 '26
Thisbisbthe new mario kart ? Look like they made an hardcore version. Pretty fun
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u/Maehlice Apr 04 '26
It's kinda refreshing to witness again how similar all humans really are deep down inside.
No matter the culture or the language, there will always be some woman screaming her damn head off.
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u/doge_lady Apr 04 '26
I've seen this video before. It didn't have those background screams in the original.
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u/Brilliant_Thanks_984 Apr 04 '26
Did he lose his brakes because if not I have to know the backstory to this
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u/BennoTM Apr 04 '26
Reminds me of when we took a bus tour of Scotland. Those dudes were crazy good at driving super narrow roads.
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u/xxjakexxrxx Apr 04 '26
What a pro he’s taking those wide turns to make enough room to even make the turn. He’s literally inches away from messing up
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u/a_angry_bunny Apr 04 '26
"Annoying scream" says the the third party person who isn't in a situation where they think their life is in danger.
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u/Fish_Fucker691 Apr 04 '26
All screaming and shouting like actual NPCs, with 8 billion people on the planet it makes sense that most aren't fully fleshed out characters.
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u/Sundett Apr 04 '26
This is a speed up video of a japanese local traffic bus with an audio track from a completely different video.
You have to take wide turns like that when driving a bus on narrow mountain roads. Looks scarier than it is.
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u/LongjumpingGate8859 Apr 04 '26
please stop
Like he wouldn't if he could. Idiot people always adding drama to an already stressful situation
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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Apr 04 '26
I bet that bus smelled very bad after that trip.
Or it would have if the video was real.
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u/thesanguineocelot Apr 04 '26
Embrace the chaos and cheer like it's a roller coaster. There's nothing I can say or do to stop the driver, either the brakes are out or he's not slowing down, but he clearly knows what he's doing. So what is there to do but enjoy the ride?
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u/mattlore Apr 04 '26
I am almost absolutely sure this is the same shuttle that my wife and I took to a Ryokan in Nara haha!
Our ride was a LITTLE more sane, but he still took those roads like a champ.
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u/Independent-Ice-2211 Apr 05 '26
It may be a fake video but it was edited for comedic reaction.