Case happened in the city of Cape Girardau, in Missouri; Toyota Corolla flew for a few seconds, but landed without any damage.
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THE winter It started ice cream in various parts of Brazil. In Sao Paulo, for example, the thermal sensation came close to zero at the last night.
I know you complained about the cold (especially when waking up), but believe me, the heat It also has its defects – especially when he throws his car through the air!
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The unusual fact occurred last Sunday (22) in the city of Cape Girardau, in the state of Missouri, United States. A vehicle followed by Siemers Drive, one of the main local avenues, when the asphalt simply gave in.
The explosion was so strong that the street became a kind of ramp, throwing the vehicle, causing it to fly for a moment.
A video made by chance
- The images are by Albert Blackwell, a resident of the city.
- He said to the channel LOCAL 12 who was filming the cracks on the road when the episode happened.
- That is, it was all by chance.
- Now, thinking coldly, how good he managed to register: because it is not every day that we see a car doing a maneuver worthy of Mario Kart or Gta.
- At the time of recording, the thermometers marked around 40ºC.
- That is, the person responsible for the deformation would have been the extreme heat.
- You may find it on the other side that this video was made by some Artificial intelligence (And it is natural that there is this doubt today).
- The local city itself, however, admitted the accident.
- The luck is that the car involved is a Toyota Corolla – And we know how resistant they are.
- There is no official information about the state of the vehicle or driver.
- But by the images, you can deduce that the two are fine.
How did this happen?
The explanation for this “explosion” is scientific. THE asphaltlike many other materials, dilates when heated. Engineers know this and usually make the streets with some space for this expansion.
Now, if the asphalt has no room to expand freely or if there are internal stresses due to variations in thickness or composition of the material, thermal expansion can lead to weakness points in the structure. And that’s probably what happened in Cape Girardau.
On social networks, the local City Hall warned of the possibility of new similar cases, since the temperature gives no signs that it will fall in the coming days.
I would say more: this can happen more often in the coming years. To the climate change They are there – and they are no joke.
The information is from The Drive.
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Roberto (Bob) Furuya has a degree in Journalism from Mackenzie Presbyterian University and has been in the area since 2010. He has passed the newsrooms of Jovem Pan and BandNews FM.
