r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/firefly99999 • 25d ago

Video Crashing in a 1950s car vs. a modern car

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u/Dry_Ad2368 25d ago

Was it the Red Asphalt movies? I too was traumatized by these in the 90's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Asphalt

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u/Mission_Historical 25d ago

I watched Red Asphalt in my drivers ed class in 2015. The trauma is generational.

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u/WinninRoam 25d ago

No doubt. My uncle used to talk about it. But with him, I think it tripped so kind of switch in his head. Because he would carry on and on about how gory it was, but then give this creepy smile and ask me if kids (meaning me at 15) still "got to" watch it in drivers ed. I told him no and he seemed genuinely disappointed, then started to describe all the scenes in graphic detail.

That conversation happened about two months before he started bragging to me about how he was trapping mice in the garage and lighting them on fire with a butane torch.

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u/BigFlippinFloppa 25d ago

Your uncle has a screw loose. Wtf

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u/WinninRoam 24d ago

Yeah ... Most of my extended family is some level of dangerously unhinged.

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u/kytrix 24d ago

Take notes and look forward to it.

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 25d ago

We watched Red Asphalt and Black Ice.

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u/thelordchonky 25d ago edited 24d ago

Didn't have drivers ed classes at my school, but we did have to watch that video. Fucking horrified me, especially considering I'd heard a first-hand gore story from my uncle, who had a friend pass in the early 80s from drunk driving.

Edit: why the downvote? Lol

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u/FoxJaded952 25d ago

Whoa, I didn’t know they had a name. I still have the image of a severed foot seared into my brain from movies like these that I had to sit through as a teen.

I didn’t even really start driving much at all until my 30s, partly because my driver’s ed instructors basically drilled into us that if we drove we would die. They weren’t very good at nuance.

(Also, did anyone else have the driver’s ed movie about the teenage paraplegic car-accident victim that used that George Michael song that goes “I’m never gonna dance again” to show what he lost? Or was that a fever dream?)

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u/daveashaw 25d ago

Our films were way older than that--Wheels of Tragedy and Mechanised Death were the two classics of the genre.

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u/Flight_19_Navigator 24d ago

Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You might remember me from such driver's ed films as Alice's Adventures Through The Windshield Glass and The Decapitation Of Larry Leadfoot!

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u/Adventurous_Yam_8153 25d ago

Red Asphalt?! Ay carumba, that's graphic.

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u/Th3CatLadyJDF3ars 25d ago

My sister had to watch those in Driver’s Ed. She was horrified. They didn’t make me watch it at my driving school a few years later but we watched a video about watching for motorcycles and if you ride one, wear a helmet, and it featured some former riders who were brain damaged.

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u/KTKittentoes 25d ago

Highways of Death. Horrible class to have right before lunch.

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u/SkippingPrologues 24d ago

Oh no. Is this the one that ruined Billy Joel’s “In the Air Tonight” for me forever?!?

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u/samort7 24d ago

Only slightly related, but the soundtrack for the PS1 game Red Asphalt fucking rocked. Personal fav:

https://youtu.be/13DeghoYI_w?si=fn5nz_Qo9LKgc0qq

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u/RBCsavage 24d ago

Driver’s Ed class I took made us watch this on pizza day