Behold: A Flying Tesla Model S
While it’s hard to make out on the CCTV footage above, the object you see flashing across the scene and landing in a shower of sparks is a Tesla Model S.
The driver hit the ramp leading up to a railway crossing on Little Avenue in Barrie, Ontario, apparently at double the speed limit, sending the EV airborne. After bouncing twice, the car crashed just out of frame in the car park of Assikinack Public School.
The driver was arrested shortly after and charged with dangerous driving. “It may look ‘cool’ and like something from out of the movies, but in reality the action of this driver put many lives at risk, including his own,” Barrie Police said on Twitter.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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The driver must have thought that the latest software update installed a flying mode.
*airplane mode
Driver must’ve misunderstood autopilot
I’ll just leave this right here
I didn’t know the Dukes of Hazard replaced General Lee
Someone’s been revisiting Need For Speed Underground.
UNDERGROUND 3 LEAKED FOOTAGE?!?!?!?!?!?!?
That race used to be so enraging to me becaude that’s the only spot to hit if you wanted to win the race.
Maybe the driver was listening to “I Believe I Can Fly”
ludicrous mode doesn’t mean you go can go crazy, crackpot!
He did it in the wrong car! He should’ve bought the Model X with the gullwing doors… Then it would’ve worked…
There’s a SpaceX joke to be made here, but I can’t come up with one
Don’t worry about it, it would probably go over everyone’s heads
They did not hear that coming…
When you have a Tesla, but rally is life.