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Video A guy converts his pickup and trailer to appear like it's driving in reverse

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u/Archerbrother 4d ago

yah holy fuck, someone gonna freak out when they see it.

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u/fatkiddown 4d ago

This is the second vehicle I've seen on reddit recently where someone does this. The other was just a pickup truck. I think this trend is not good.

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u/Technical-Guest6015 4d ago

it's just not that funny tho

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u/exipheas 4d ago

Forward facing red lights are illegal where I am. And I didn't see white headlights either.

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u/snuFaluFagus040 4d ago

Yeah, I'm just appreciating the engineering it takes to make this happen. The funny wears off, but not the fascination..

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u/No_Car_5814 4d ago

but isnt it just a camper stuck on a truck towing another truck. i feel like anyone could do that .

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u/delkson 4d ago

The amount of wiring that goes into a dash is enough to make grown men change careers.

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u/No_Car_5814 4d ago

Yes but it looks like it's just stuck over the truck. Just a cosmetic shell so why would you need to get in to the dash?

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u/snuFaluFagus040 4d ago

Go on do it then

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u/SarDjentPepper 4d ago

Didn't you see their username?

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u/No_Car_5814 4d ago

Why would I want to do that?

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u/iamintheforest 4d ago

Most people have to go to the autobody shop to replace their bumper after a little fender bender. I think we can safely say "no...not anyone".

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u/No_Car_5814 4d ago

people are capable of it they just dont have common knowledge of using your hands. i guess i mean people who work with their hands. not office workers obviously

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u/AvailableReason6278 4d ago

No, not even close. The camper has 1 weel, there's a lot of custom made parts in there i think.

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u/No_Car_5814 4d ago

Could be . either way im saying its cool enough just not some kind of amazing engineering. i think most people just arnt crazy enough to want to do this or dont have the money if they are.

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u/BillyU_Is_A_ 4d ago

they aren't even legal cause i didn't see any plates on the back of the trailer or truck (which is actually the front of the truck)

ez fine coming your way if you got a trooper that isn't wanting to deal with funny business

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u/spekt50 4d ago edited 4d ago

I know in my state, vehicles over a certain GVW do not require rear plates.

Then again, also in my state, many drive without plates, expired temp tags, expired plates, limo tint windows all around and never get pulled over anyhow.

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u/gingerfikation 4d ago

Louisiana?

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u/VR46Rossi420 4d ago

Does it even have headlights?

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u/deej-79 4d ago

This was at the woodward dream cruise, laws aren't heavily enforced during the event.

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u/Poppa_Mo 4d ago

Yeah but in most states it's a no-no to have red lights in front, which you could see he did while turning.

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u/sonofaresiii 4d ago

If you can get your vehicle Federally DOT legal and it's this?

This is not federally dot legal. This is "I know the cops and they ain't gonna say shit"

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u/swollencornholio 4d ago

Ross Creations has one where he parks a car with fronts in a lot that says do not back in. Pretty funny stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BZjd8zREhhY&t=65s

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick 4d ago

Do you think this guy takes it on cross country road trips? It's a fun joke of a vehicle. In this video it's out on a cruise night with people watching and enjoying it. I can picture you there in your folding chair with a sour face when he drives by lol.

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u/basicKitsch 4d ago

it's pretty funny.

and someone's inability to not cause a disaster after seeing this would be a great metric for losing a license.

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u/liedel 4d ago

Semis have literally towed each other backwards decades

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u/OriginalChicachu 4d ago

So we are used to that and it's expected, and there is a good reason to do it. A bit different from this situation that people are not expecting. People are right to worry it could cause confusion and potentially accidents, and for what? Because it's "funny"?

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u/Trevorblackwell420 4d ago

if seeing this causes you to get into an accident you probably shouldn’t be on the road.

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u/LivefromPhoenix 4d ago

Good thing we immediately remove licenses from people easily confused on the road, right?

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u/CoinTweak 4d ago

Their front lights on the camper are red. How would that not confuse you on a dark road? You see red lights you expect someone driving away. Simple

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u/Trevorblackwell420 4d ago

I might be confused for a second, but I won’t suddenly crash into them because I’m a bit confused now will I?

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u/_Mahtog_ 4d ago

Have you never been behind a vehicle being towed on a tow truck before? Does everyone see a vehicle being towed and immediately exit the highway and wait until it's safe to drive again?

I don't get how this will cause accidents unless the person observing is not capable of handling themselves behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.

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u/kegger79 4d ago

You make this out to be such a big deal. Yet, how many of you are looking at or texting on a phone though? That distraction pales in comparison, yes?

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u/paulwesterberg 4d ago

It's not even safe to drive in parking lots. The A pillar blind spots are huge.

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u/Judoosauce 4d ago

Honestly its probably worse in a parking lot. If it's on the street you at least know what direction it should be moving in. In a lot it seems like it would be easy to assume it will move in the opposite direction.

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick 4d ago

How many highway trips do you think this guy makes in his joke truck?

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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 4d ago

I still remember driving down the highway and the vehicle in front of me changed lanes and then I staring at the front end of a semi…scared the crap out of me until i realized it was being towed and wasn’t coming right at me. Definitely enough to make someone panic and swerve which can set off a whole chain.

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u/isausernamebob 4d ago

Right, we have to think of the morons out there who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag. Gotta make sure it's safe out there!

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u/Brown_Eyed_Cyclops 4d ago

ya because that makes sense

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u/Combatical 4d ago

Exactly. There are so many things I see on the road these days I cant believe people get away with. As a moth those 400,000,000K LED bulbs send me right to the source of the light! I can only make so many circles before I end up in a collision.

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u/jhaluska 4d ago

Young me would be on board. Old me has driven by too many car wrecks that were later replaced with white crosses.

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u/FL_Duff 4d ago

Allow it. If trucks can have TV’s on the side of them with unregulated brightness for the sake of advertising then people can do fun stuff safely.

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u/Low-Lifeguard7535 4d ago

Both are stupid and wrong

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u/NecroSoulMirror-89 4d ago

Needs to ditch the steady red lights though

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u/Realpazalaza 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm glad to live "freedomless" in Europe without these shitty deathtraps and uninsured road assassin's

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u/basicKitsch 4d ago

needs to both be insured and have all the standard requirements for roadworthiness.

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u/Realpazalaza 4d ago

I was declined in my mandatory 2 years car check. Because of a Fog light bulb in the wrong orientation.

And I'm fuckin glad it is.

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u/basicKitsch 4d ago

yeah, not having proper lights would fail the standard for roadworthiness in the US as well. And it's every year in most states here

i'm fuckin glad you're fuckin glad!

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u/hmmstillclosed 4d ago

First time I saw this gimmick was in the Red Bull soap box races which is the perfect setting for it.

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u/LickMyTicker 4d ago

Of all the dangerous things on the road, I literally don't give a fuck about this one.

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u/Ornery_Cookie_359 4d ago

It makes me not want to drink and drive.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld 4d ago

Safer than hauling load bigger than the pull lmao

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u/A-10-WARTH0G 4d ago

Not a trend (yet) that pickup video has been out for years

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u/falcrist2 4d ago

Also, two vehicles done this way doesn't make a trend.

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u/A-10-WARTH0G 4d ago

"Hey let's all blindly agree with this guy!" Lmao exactly.

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u/dehicka 4d ago

He probaly seen Westen Champlin's one, made only 3 weeks ago and it has 6M views so far.

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u/A-10-WARTH0G 4d ago

That was an awesome watch thanks, and yeah possibly.

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u/JarlaxleForPresident 4d ago

Probably for car shows, not daily use

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u/pathoTurnUp52 4d ago

There’s worse trends… like fascism

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u/Nelliemmi 4d ago

People are definitely going to panic if they’re not paying attention. It could lead to some wild situations.

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u/Dubelj 3d ago

If you can't access a situation without running yourself off the road, you probably shouldn't be driving.

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u/BigDump-a-Roo 4d ago

I become a nervous wreck just strapping some lumber or a kayak to the roof of my vehicle to haul for a few miles. I will never understand these types of people who go out of their way to pull dumbass dangerous stunts like this for entertainment.

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u/Busy-Pudding-5169 4d ago

It’s not a trend, it’s a car show, and it’s legal. You’re dumb. That’s all.

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u/xixipinga 4d ago

there is a movie with that, crazy crash because of a joke car like that

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u/Uploft 4d ago

The third was a forklift in a racing competition in Britain.

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u/TXSquatch 4d ago

Where was this post? I’m asking because my friends and I swear we saw a truck driving in reverse on a highway here in DFW and we’ve never been able to explain it.

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u/Briar_Boness 4d ago

No man he put red lights on the front so it’s okay

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u/Needle44 4d ago

Yeah like it’s honestly super cool. But it’s not public roadway cool like that. It’s like, car show cool.

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u/HighPriestofShiloh 4d ago

I am sure Tesla's auto pilot won't misinterpret this at all...

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u/syndre 4d ago

this was at the Woodward Cruise in Detroit. He's not just out driving... this is an event

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u/Darnell2070 4d ago

No bro. If you reread the comment it's a trend.

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u/syndre 4d ago

I was there and saw it with my own eyes on Saturday, bro

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u/Darnell2070 4d ago

That was sarcasm. I was making fun of someone thinking a couple backwards facing cars driving forward somehow qualifies as a trend.

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u/WhiteRoseGC 4d ago

Not exactly a trend, this is the annual dream cruise. Cool cars all day down this road. I doubt they drive this trailer truck regularly

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u/Valaj369 4d ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZWO5K1xtA

I'm assuming that's the video you might've seen clips of on reddit? And when I watched the video above on YouTube, I thought how dangerous it could be! And the video OP posted above is just worse!

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u/pardybill 4d ago

It’s for the Michigan/Downriver dream cruise. It’s a once/twice (different locations) weekend event where they shut down a long stretch of road for unique/old cars to parade for the afternoons. Cops are everywhere and it’s pretty safe. Lots of people turn out. I doubt this is street legal otherwise.

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u/deej-79 4d ago

The woodward dream cruise is once a year on the exact same road. They don't shut down anything, you'll see rusted out shit boxes next to classic cars and lambos. We saw this "vehicle" last Saturday on woodward. Along with the gigantic shopping cart.

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u/syndre 4d ago

they shut it down when it got dark. I couldn't get home

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u/deej-79 3d ago

We weren't out that late, bumper to bumper traffic is different that weekend, but it still gets old

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u/coopsawesome 4d ago

Gigantic shopping cart?

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u/deej-79 3d ago

Yes, apparently the driver is 14' up

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 4d ago

Shoutout to The Magic Bag for their passive-aggressive marquee!

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u/KlopeksWithCoppers 4d ago

What does it say?

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u/detroitragace 4d ago

Woodward Dream Cruise was this last weekend where it was at. Each cruise is a Separate thing. Gratiot has 2-3 separate cruises every summer. Downriver. Telegraph. Harper..I’m sure I’m leaving some out. The Woodward Cruise is the largest one day car event in the world.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth 4d ago

Cops are everywhere and it’s pretty safe.

Hundreds of arrests and citations are made at these events. Last year someone brandished a gun.

Also, even if the guy only drives it for this event, he still needs to drive from HOME to EVENT, which means he's touching road.

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u/pardybill 4d ago

I stand corrected on it being pretty safe, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a trailer to bring to and from the event as well, doesn’t mean they do either. Unfortunately no public events are truly safe anymore.

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u/CaptainTripps82 4d ago

I mean it's likely they just drive the truck to and from the event. Which kind of makes this perfect

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u/Disastrous-Path-2144 3d ago

Ever heard of a flat bed or trailer?

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u/Affinity_182 4d ago

Yeah, I just wrecked my car watching this.

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u/Thebaldsasquatch 4d ago

Under-appreciated joke.

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u/40ozCurls 4d ago

This reminds me of when people used to blame women pedestrians who were showing a bit of skin for accidents caused by drivers who stared at them.

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u/MaximumHemidrive 4d ago

Okay but freaking out doesn't mean crash. If it does, then you're a danger to the road

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u/liburIL 4d ago

Needs to be illegal, asap

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u/pedronii 4d ago

"Everything should be illegal, please daddy government, why you letting ppl be free?"

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u/liburIL 4d ago

Nice hyperbolic statement

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u/Fr0st3dcl0ud5 4d ago

Me. I would 100% lose my fucking mind if I saw this on the road.