Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 8/12/17 - Car Recalls And Crazy Crashes

Episode Date: August 12, 2017

Jeffy tells you the kind of car you need to drive if you want to survive a major crash.  Meanwhile, General Motors has recalled hundreds of thousands of Chevy and GMC pickups because of a potential steering issue caused by a software problem that can cause them to spontaneously lose their electric power steering assistance for about one second, according to the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  Jeffy shares car crash stories.   Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Recalling about 700,000 Chevy and GMC trucks. Wait. What? The vehicles may have a software problem that can cause them to spontaneously lose their electric power steering assistance for about one second. Yeah, that happened to me. No, officer. Really? I didn't mean to spin into this store.

It was an accident. It was a software issue in my truck. Here, look. I mean, that's kind of frightening. Just drive, just a split second. I don't know how much damage you could do in that split second, but I guess if you're, I don't know, Jeff, go 75. 75 miles an hour, or I mean the speed limit, 65, of course.

And lose that. Lose that just for a second. Let's see what happens. So if you're driving Chevy or GMC, good luck. God bless. What you really should be driving, where is the, what you really should be driving is a BMW. I mean, this BMW is not a sponsor of this broadcast.

I don't know if you ever had a BMW. I, in fact, owned a BMW a number of years ago, a little 325. or something. It was a little two-door, had the sunroof. Oh, but I love that little. It was a four-speed.

I love that little beamer. The only issue was it was Florida and the AC didn't work. And so I decided that perhaps I should probably sell it. But I love that little beamer. And I'm telling you, you watch a video that was posted. It was on my Facebook page. I think I posted on my Twitter too. I'll post it again.

of the BMW that falls seven stories in Austin, Texas from a parking garage, and the lady lived with, I mean, not life-threatening injuries. I mean, BMW should be running that footage across the world. Buy our cars. Survive seven-story crash. If you haven't seen the footage, it's really amazing. And there's a, I think it looks like a Volvo Volkswagen. It probably is.

It's just Austin. I got to go to the Volvo. Just misses getting dead on hit from the Beamer falling seven stories from the parking garage. I mean, the back of the car gets banged on from the Beamer, but it would have been someone would have died had that he landed on top of that station wagon. But instead, bam, right into the concrete. I mean, it's amazing footage. Seven stories.

Never mind the fact that you're, that you're, that you're, that you're, that you're, that you're, Okay, you've survived. Good. And good for, you know, I'm happy for the lady. But you want to talk about losing that one second from the GM Chevy or GMC trucks, losing control because of a software issue. You're going to talk about the second and a half, three seconds, however long it takes you to drop seven stories in a BMW.

And you're off the side of that parking garage and you're headed straight down. I mean, you want to talk about that frightening. moment. That's it. I mean, fantastic, she's okay. And she survived and you think, so she survived. So what? What are you worried about? She's fine. I know.

But that how long you figure it takes you drop seven stories? I'm not, look, I'm not a math of addition. Clearly, that's true. But I mean, how long it's taking it drop seven stories? Two seconds? It took her too long. Yeah.

It's too long. I'll tell you that. Right. Well, you're in that thing. No kidding. Life is probably slowed down to serious slow motion. And yet, when you hit the ground, it ain't slow motion. I don't know if you ever been, I was, you lose control like that.

I was in a pickup truck on a bridge and lost control. Hydroplaining. You know, I may have been accelerating faster than what, you know, you should be. The tires may have been, you know, a little, I don't know, not 100% up to, you know, rubberage. But you lose control, and I started to spin, whosh, and that first second of losing control, you're like, oh, crap. And you expect to get it back, right? I mean, that's the General Motors, the GMC truck losing that second of losing control. you expect to get it back.

And that's where you get in trouble because if you don't get it back, you're done. And so I started hydroplaining in this truck and you're like trying to get it back. And then you realize you're not getting it back. You're still, I mean, you're starting to really get out of control. And you're looking around like, what about the traffic? Now, this was like 4.30 at the morning.

So there wasn't a lot of traffic. And it was just starting to really storm. So it was really coming. And I spun, whosh. and start spinning around this bridge. Whosh. And then, bam!

Head on into the side rail. And then backwards spins back around. Back around, back to the truck. Bam, into the guardrail. And then turn sideways again. Bam! Into the guardrail and scrape backwards all along the guardrail along the rider's side of the truck.

And then slides back out into the lane. So you've got two lanes on this bridge, the Gandy Bridge, connecting St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, the eastbound side, heading from St. Petersburg into Tampa. So I got the back end of my truck sticking out into the inside lane. There's still the outside lane, and it's raining. I mean, it's pouring. And the seat in the truck, when you make that sudden smash into the guardrail,

it may have been, there may have been a weight issue. You know, like when you have a lot of weight on you and then it strikes and you push against the seat, it falls back. And so my seat is flat. I'm flat. After the first,

bam into the guardrail, I am flat laying in my truck because the seat broke. So the seat, I'm laying back, straight back. And I'm still spinning, right? You're still boom, boom. So finally stop and I sit up and I look out the window like, holy cow,

there's traffic coming and there's some lights coming. It's far away by, like, I'm figuring, you know, I'm going to get hit again. We're going to get nailed again. I'm just sitting here. But it was, you know, there was another lane, so I'm hoping, you know, that people can actually, it's okay, they go around. It's really stormy, really rainy. I don't want to get out.

It was really raining, storming. So the first truck to come. comes by stop. He gets out and he runs over to the window. I just roll it down just a little bit because I don't want to get soaking wet from the... Yeah? You okay?

Everything all right? Yep. I'm fine. Thank you. Roll my window back up. I don't want to get wet. I know you got soaking wet running from your car over here to see if the human was okay, but I'm fine.

Yeah, I don't want to get all wet. Go back, go away now. So I called, I called 911. I called 911. And I called in a traffic report to the radio station I worked for. saying that the eastbound inside lane would be blocked for a little while due to an accident,

red pickup truck, Dodge, extended cab, hood. I like that truck too. So, I have no idea what I was talking about, but now I'm all I can think about is this damn truck accident

and it's frightening. Oh yeah, the BMW, those seconds of fright when it's going on is horrific. And imagine dropping off that seven stories, that the time between the crap I'm going over to all the way down to slamming into the ground. Holy cow. I mean, you are seriously cleaning. You need some, I mean, remember when you were a kid and your mother always told you when you leave the house, make sure you clean your ears and you have clean underwear on.

Now, the reason that she told you to have clean underwear. is because if you ever got it some kind of accident or had to go to the hospital, she didn't want to be embarrassed, right? She wanted you to have clean underwear. However, she wasn't thinking about the time that you would drop seven stories

from a parking garage. So it wouldn't matter whether you started the day with clean underwear or not. Because by the time you landed at the bottom of that seven-story parking garage, you don't have any clean underwear.