That lady needs a web cam for her corner, like the 11' 8" bridge. And thumbs up for the person that installed the strong barriers ! Held back 4 vehicles at on point!
Definitely kudos to the pole installation. I’ve seen them snap off and turn out to only be 4 inches in the concrete. Large fence posts too. Blown over by wind. Out of concrete. It’s a shame how some guys do their “work.”
The locals need to get cardboard marked 1-10 and start holding up ice skating scores like the olympics for these cars that would make a legendary video.
That street, Paso Florentino, is nicknamed “Resbaladilla” (Slide) and “Bajada del Diablo” (Devil’s Descent) Although not the only road with that ridged surface (which they thought would give tires more grip) and steep incline in the neighborhood, it is the one with the highest demolition derby record ;)
@@anovosedlik well, the ridged design was meant to help the grip of the tires, but the amount of traffic and the people hitting the brakes hard to actually start sliding caused the road surface to become more slick and slippery, but you have to keep in mind that there are many cars, trucks, and buses which do get down without problems. The videos depict the few that fail ;)
@@RobiBue Gotcha! I looked up the street and it says that actually the steepest street in the world is in New Zealand and it's only at 35 degrees, so is this one really 45 degrees? Cuz that's a lot steeper
I live in Mexico and have been down that exact street, in my mother in law's car no less. Sh*tting my pants the whole time, but made it safely. Never again.
From an article on Paso Florentino, sometimes called the Devil's Descent by locals, a road that has a slope of roughly 30%, or about 18 degrees: Surveillance footage shows vehicles of all kinds slipping, sliding, and crashing down the Mexican street including trucks, taxis, motorcycles, cop cars, and *at least one pedestrian at unconfirmed levels of inebriation.*
Well, to be fair, for drunk people the (real or imagined) incline of any road is going to be a dynamic variable anyway. They would manage to trip on a perfectly flat surface just as easily. ;-)
Even the Google Maps car had a rough time getting pictures down that hill the last time they photographed the area on Street View. I bet that's a good timeline to explore when you go back through recent streetview years.
Impressed how the woman has installed those small pillars outside her home around the corner, not even a single car meeting with an accident at that spot touches her house.
I've been by there. Not on it, just riding by. I remember looking at it and thinking, "that is insane. I can't believe they built houses and streets on such a steep grade."
@@CliffR I think it is the notches they put in the road combined with the hill. I wonder if they thought it would add to the grip but it reduces tire contact and friction. I know when I drive over bridge grates I slide everywhere
@@steveescher1554 Probably same people that think tread on tires adds grip when it doesn't (race cars want the most grip possible, if slick tires had the least grip they wouldn't be using them, they'd be using mud tires). Also with everyone used to ABS brakes I'm sure that doesn't help, and when the car sees all 4 locked u pit thinks its come to a stop, while people are still smashing the pedal down instead of letting off and feathering and modulating for traction.
I find it absolutly hilarious that his road exists 🤣 even funnier that so many people still attempt to use this road. Surely people know to avoid it by now.
@@JamesElise160 to be honest the more I think about it, I couldn't resist bying a crappy cheap car and insure it for a day over in that country just so I can attempt the road myself 🤣
The "washboard" surface of the road is the problem causing less tire contact with road. Trying to stop on a bumpy surface has the suspension rebound and compression working against each other causing little jumps. Then this causes the tires to lose contact that equals grip with the surface. Closer the bumps are the worse it becomes. Ever notice when you try to stop at a light or stop sign on a bumpy road you can feel your vehicle start to jump/slide forward? That's the problem.
You could say the same thing about tread in a tyre… You dont see people driving around on slicks 😂 Civil engineers arent stupid… Remove the grooves and see how cars do in the wet 🤡
I disagree. Prime 11 foot 8 before it got nerfed wrought far more destruction, decapitating buses and slaughtering Penske moving trucks. Plus it was reading to feast all the time, not like this road that needs to be wet. 11 foot 8 ftw 💪
Visited this place in 2017, couldn't believe this incline, was tempted to try it but the locals advised me not to 🤣🤣, it looks like nothing on camera in person it's insane.
Best part is, it's not the incline that causes this to happen. It's the grooves in the pavement. If it was just a regular road, these accidents wouldn't happen as often as they do.
I was about to say the same thing. It's not really that steep. I'm guessing that a little morning dew coupled with the grooves makes this road very slippery
In this video: a demonstration of how sometimes you need to let go of your brakes and just let your wheels roll wherever they're gonna take you. (Alternate title: why ABS was invented.) As a Canadian, I can say this is exactly the same way most people end up running in to posts on ice in the winter. No more steering if your front wheels stop rolling!
Minute 2:47 is the best ! Ozzy Man´s professional translation of the local authority : "Stop depending on private companies like the government to fix stuff, not our job ! " That is hilarious ! 🤣🤣
@@MajesticalHonky Check out the 1st 30 seconds. You will see the guy is walking along a light strip of sidewalk. The rest of the sidewalk is dark. The guy is hugging the building so he doesn't fall on his ass. It happens occasionally, and that is why it's an exceptional story and the news reporters are out there reporting on it 🤦🏻♀️
Whelp, I knew it was Mexico City with the first car being one of their pink and white taxis. Fun fact, basically every major city in Mexico has their own color scheme/vehicle style for official taxis. Mexico City is pink and white, although they used to be red and white years ago. Acapulco has white cars with either blue or yellow fenders, a lot of them being VW Bugs. Guadalajara has white cars with yellow on the doors and the hood. Monterrey has green cars with white roofs and white cars with gold roofs. Cancun has white cars with a green, semi-racing stripe down the side. Tijuana has white cars with either green or orange chevron on the hood. I don't know if these are actually mandated color schemes or if they just have different companies in the different areas, but those are the ones I noticed while traveling over the last couple decades.
I remember when the taxis in Mexico City were checkered green and white ;) and most of them were vw beetles (bolchitos) Edit: and then there were the “peseros” (mostly vw combis)
It should be compulsory for all vehicles to have a horn that plays La Cucaracha and you can judge how far they get my how many notes they get out before crashing.
I live in MX City and can confirm this street makes it to the news from time to time. I've said it many times but this street should be just closed. Also for the record, this whole neighborhood is in the outer area of the city, proof of the poor planning in the past when it came to city expansion
Doesn't need to be closed, it needs to be repaved. That washboard surface is 99% of the problem. It cuts traction by 2/3. It's insane to have that kind of surface on a hill.
@@kdrapertrucker the problem is that street was meant to slow down the flood of water during heavy rains, but it made a dead trap for cars. Those semi rural areas in the outside of the city re mainly built by the citizens themselves so are always an architectural horror
The road is at a 45 degree angle. So we have the following factors in MEXICO: 45 degree STEEP GREADE, car oil on the hill, rain, the siping should help, but not with the oil, warm countries tend to let their tires go bald. If they want to fix it, throw powdered Tide and Dawn down, street cleaner scrubber the crap out of it, pressure wash it, then put a coat of the asphalt sealer down with the deck traction you put in deck paint..... or..... flag the road off when it rains!
0:29 The guy in blue shirt : "you reckon that was it?" The guy behind him: "i think so too" "I think we can help now" "Yeah. That should be the last one"
The problem are the horizontal lines perpendicular to the flow of traffic. It keeps water moisture on the surface and also the groove only create less road friction
Friction on an incline is tangent of the angle between horizontal and incline plane. If you have a flat surface. Since they added groove lines perpendicular to the velocity vector thus decreasing contact surface as the tire rotates therefore causing slippage . As you can see on the video slippage is fast then rotational.if you lock up your back wheels the car will rotate the
@@juanlop8974 no Juan, that's not how it works. Wooden shoes are placed under the wheels to make sure cars don't move. Those grooves are following the same principle. Making sure the cars are attached to the pavement at all times. Except if the incline or speed are too large.
The roads in my country are very safe but many people die in accidents dancing on tables because people here like to dance on tables and the tables here aren't very strong. Please send more tables and booze. Thanks.
What the heck is the road surface? That is obviously dangerous and can you imagine the size of the Black Spot sign at the top of that road XD Thank you for yet another classic vid, Mate
Looks like there's horrendous amounts of rubber laid down on the concrete, and when it rains it becomes a skating rink. That combined with an obvious lack of talent of a lot of the drivers, plus some suspect maintenance on the cars and tyres involved, and you have a perfect storm.
@@uiomancannot7931 Except all the tires these taxis etc use are 6 year old, so they're effectively plastic. So all the ridges do is make the tires bump and keep losing traction, while the car accelerates downhill, and snowballing to destination fucked. These ridges might help a Pilot sport 4 or the like, but not what most people have.
Still doesn't answer the question though... *What the hell is wrong with that road* 😂 It doesn't make sense, acts like ice but I know it isn't... similar to oil residue but that isn't the case either
This road gives me hard PTSD. There's a road/bridge that has those awful grooves in it. My first accident at 16 was taking a left onto it, when it was raining, with all those stupid grooves, and I slid right up onto the curb and into a street sign. Didn't help I had a V8 engine and was never taught how to properly drive the car I was given.
The locals wax and polish that road weekly. Just for entertainment, shits, and giggles... It's all fun and games until a fully loaded 18 wheeler, or a double decker bus, gets directed down there by a satnav on a diversion route.
Isn't there some urban legend that a tyre company opened shop in a small town, then suddenly the amount of tyre punctures suddenly increased dramatically, and it turned out one of the tyre shop employees was scattering caltrops on the roads to drive up business?
@@OntarioTrafficMan The point is that our governments have been bought and paid for by the corporations... The governments are just a shell company for the people who are really running the show; the CEOs of the world. As such, how you spend your money is now more important than how you vote.
As someone who spent and loved a year in Oz, the amazing commentary is neck and neck for first place with the understanding of the phrase ‘sticky beak’ and the assumption almost every international viewer was thinking ‘WTF is sticky beak?!’ 😂
Paso Florentino (scarier than El Cuco) is going to make a regular appearance on Ozzy man reviews ( much like destination f****d ). We have a winner !!!! 😀
I prefer a manual transmission but on steep grades I always put my automatic transmission truck in low drive #2 if it is really steep which helps keep me from riding the brakes (which perform progressively worse the hotter they get) You'll see most of these drivers had locked their brakes and that is why they were sliding all over.
@@-norsecode- Also the Police and their Jeeps have absolutely no excuse for losing traction as they have 4x4 low and should just easily crawl down that decline
@@intractablemaskvpmGy Right?! One thing my dad taught me about his 4x4 truck is when to use low and high. Now I have a small car that won't move in snow above 3 inches. Still, I'll try the low gear for snow.
This is what I needed - work was an absolute mess today. Ty for the amazing commentary and laughs as always Ozzyman. Also, Ozzyman, I miss Australia, visited Cairns for 2 weeks back in 2019 and had a fair dinkum good time. I hope to visit Australia again sometime.
There has to be a sign at the top of that street warning, “ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.” But, it seems most of the road warriors are, “Yeah, nah, yeah. Oh, no! It’s ‘Destination F*ck!’”
I've been on roads like this that are very steep..what this road needs that the others have that I've been on are speed bumps every so many feet so your car can't slide down the hill
In countries that don't have much mountains there are actually standards at which angle you can build a road and if the angle is greater than it is allowed you can't build a bloody road. In countries that have hilly or mountainous terrain they build roads almost vertically
Probably it was a rough-earth street to start with, suitable for walking and donkeys. Then there was a campaign to pave everything in the neighbourhood, and they duly paved it (looks like with concrete). Now people try to drive down it like it's a normal street. There are lots of very steep streets around in Latam that if paved would be just as bad. But this really is a classic.
@@birdflipper Those famous pictures of that bridge (Eshima Ohashi) are just an optical illusion caused by the photos being taken from distance with a large telephoto lens. There is nothing remarkable about its steepness at all. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eshima_bidge.jpg
Nah I live in Colorado and the mountain roads are switchbacks rather than super steep; even then the highway has pull-offs for trucks that are out of control even on the much-tamer-than-this-road angles.
There is a street like that in Houghton Michigan that is very steep and gets covered in ice and packed snow, in dry weather its no big thing, but with rain or ice its a screaming hair on fire, diapers packed full, thrill ride at any speed. Houghton Mi gets over 200 inches of snow every winter.
@@rsoul7282 look up "How to turn left in the UP" on here, there is a video of a sliding car that saves it. Houghton is in the upper peninsula, aka 'Da U.P.'
how has this only just become public knowledge? I feel this should've been sorted out much sooner, that's fucked up... funny for an Ozzy Man video, though, do more lol
@@bjb7587 yes, but it's 2022, I'm sure something like this would've come up years earlier, all the mundane stuff that for some reason is newsworthy, something like a road that is seemingly near impossible to drive on is kind of wtf news that should be out there more
the slats in the road make it so there's not much road to get grip on.. combine that with that insane incline and you get quite an entertaining show.. thanks for the montage Ozzy Man!
If Lombard Street in San Francisco was “straightened out”, I reckon the end result would be similar to the hilarious Mexican mayhem we just witnessed here 🤙😂
@@queenb1119 … Oh it would be every traffic cops’ worst nightmare 😬😬😬 I’ve been down Lombard before & know what you mean & how steep that area around it is but if they straightened it out… All hell would break loose (traffic wise).
OMG!!! I am Mexican and this has got to be the funniest shit ever!!! Mexican angeniring at its best, so funny. But in all seriousness the local gov should do something.
Since your there as a Mexican can you tell me are there any vehicle safety inspections? My thought being these are vehicles that have no tread left on their tires.
It's an easy fix. Pave the roads properly. All those grooves make it worse, not better. The tires can't get proper traction in order to stop. Just pave it over, smooth it out, and rate of crashes should drop dramatically, as long as it's not wet, frozen, or slicked.
@@writerconsidered nope, besides of inspecting motor emissions there isn't really other inspection needed and you can even pay to get the "verification" with a very crappy car.
@@the_SolLoser nah mate, Mexico is a really hill-y place, the groves on the road reduced accident a whole bunch in all lot of communities. That road is just very steep, also the aren't as many crashed as it seems, rainy season is when you get to see this a lot.
@@the_SolLoser I'm thinking the original reason was to control water not considering how it would affect tire traction. A smooth road may cause other problems when it rains that we are unaware of.
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That lady needs a web cam for her corner, like the 11' 8" bridge. And thumbs up for the person that installed the strong barriers ! Held back 4 vehicles at on point!
Definitely kudos to the pole installation. I’ve seen them snap off and turn out to only be 4 inches in the concrete. Large fence posts too. Blown over by wind. Out of concrete. It’s a shame how some guys do their “work.”
yeah she needs a web cam, thats good money she could be making off a yt channel.
You need internet to have a webcam. I think her internet probably still makes dialup noises...
I would watch, seems more entertaining than the others
@@cup_and_cone if she even has a phone line.
I like how everyone just waiting patiently for the accident to end and eventually help the victims
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That's called using your brain.
Believe it or not we once all had to use them.
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So you want to help them while the accident is happening?so are you gonna stop a vehicle with your bare hands?
Yeah I don't blame them.....no one's safe on that hell road
The locals need to get cardboard marked 1-10 and start holding up ice skating scores like the olympics for these cars that would make a legendary video.
Ice skating it's marked 1 to 6.
@@marcwilliams9824 Thank you! But everyone knows Mexican Car Skating is rated 1 to 10.
@@syzygysyzygy8332 I'm a Mexican, I agree.
@@marcwilliams9824 I thought that was only in the Olympics, and professional figure skating competitions use the 10-point scale.
I second this!
That street, Paso Florentino, is nicknamed “Resbaladilla” (Slide) and “Bajada del Diablo” (Devil’s Descent)
Although not the only road with that ridged surface (which they thought would give tires more grip) and steep incline in the neighborhood, it is the one with the highest demolition derby record ;)
Were the ridges designed in a way that they help at all? Or did they screw up the design so that they make it even worse?
@@anovosedlik well, the ridged design was meant to help the grip of the tires, but the amount of traffic and the people hitting the brakes hard to actually start sliding caused the road surface to become more slick and slippery, but you have to keep in mind that there are many cars, trucks, and buses which do get down without problems. The videos depict the few that fail ;)
@@RobiBue Gotcha! I looked up the street and it says that actually the steepest street in the world is in New Zealand and it's only at 35 degrees, so is this one really 45 degrees? Cuz that's a lot steeper
@@anovosedlik nah, definitely not 45 degrees
@@RobiBue I thought so! It sounded a little bit too extreme!
I live in Mexico and have been down that exact street, in my mother in law's car no less. Sh*tting my pants the whole time, but made it safely. Never again.
Wtf is up with those roads
@@Horne_Baka what’s wrong with a female driving?
Talk about a once in a lifetime experience, it's a hell no from me.
Why is it so dangerous, I honestly cannot seem to figure out why it is so dangerous
@@ليما-ص1ث oh no.....have u been living without the internet uptil now?🤢
Ozzy Man pronouncing Spanish words immediately took me back to his flawlessly delivered "máxima, mínima, noche" line in his Yanet García review 🤘😂
That video is chad
Come forth young man !! 🤣🤣
Mmmmm. Yanet García.
@@Verndroid break me off a piece of that!!
@@Verndroid yeah. Too bad Ozzyman took down that lingerie-party video
'Stop depending on private companies like the government to fix stuff'... Ozzyman serving up truths again.
Easy to do if you can afford it...for the vast majority of us however.
@@michaelcoward1902 lol, u didn't get it. ..
@@michaelcoward1902 it's sarcasm....
@@han_xiao4280 Exactly which is the sarcastic part and how can you tell? Be sure to show your work…🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
@@zee9709 I’m thinking there’s nothing to get here, numbskull. They’ve said exactly what they mean.
Those bollards outside of Mariana's shop are doing hell of a job. Definitely worth the investment.
Those bollards are actually steel I-beams buried a couple meters below ground. Ask me how I know…
@@smith507 crashed?
@@mistertea4487 not in that particular crossing but I screwed the left tire well with one of those beams
@@smith507 yeah, they aren't cheap to install, but definitely worth it in this case
@@smith507 I was going to say that what you see above the ground is only 2% of what’s in the ground 😂
From an article on Paso Florentino, sometimes called the Devil's Descent by locals, a road that has a slope of roughly 30%, or about 18 degrees:
Surveillance footage shows vehicles of all kinds slipping, sliding, and crashing down the Mexican street including trucks, taxis, motorcycles, cop cars, and *at least one pedestrian at unconfirmed levels of inebriation.*
Well, to be fair, for drunk people the (real or imagined) incline of any road is going to be a dynamic variable anyway. They would manage to trip on a perfectly flat surface just as easily. ;-)
Even the Google Maps car had a rough time getting pictures down that hill the last time they photographed the area on Street View. I bet that's a good timeline to explore when you go back through recent streetview years.
"The road will decide your fate."
Who knew the answer to what is my destiny could be found at a steep hill and road in Mexico? Nice.
"The map is not the territory"
Very Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Impressed how the woman has installed those small pillars outside her home around the corner, not even a single car meeting with an accident at that spot touches her house.
Makes me wonder how many times her place had been smashed in before she decided to install them 😂
@@DukeDarkshadow it was installed by the private company like the government, probably :D
The goverment do it, she does not have the money to do.that
I'm even more impressed how those pillars are still unbent, LOL
A little while back, learned that the British call those pillars "bollards," and it since has become one of my favorite words
I've been by there. Not on it, just riding by. I remember looking at it and thinking, "that is insane. I can't believe they built houses and streets on such a steep grade."
And then apparently made the street out of Teflon.
Ahh I wasn’t sure if it was just because of the slope or if it was a freak ice or what
wtf is the road made out of lmao
@@CliffR I think it is the notches they put in the road combined with the hill. I wonder if they thought it would add to the grip but it reduces tire contact and friction. I know when I drive over bridge grates I slide everywhere
@@steveescher1554 Probably same people that think tread on tires adds grip when it doesn't (race cars want the most grip possible, if slick tires had the least grip they wouldn't be using them, they'd be using mud tires). Also with everyone used to ABS brakes I'm sure that doesn't help, and when the car sees all 4 locked u pit thinks its come to a stop, while people are still smashing the pedal down instead of letting off and feathering and modulating for traction.
I find it absolutly hilarious that his road exists 🤣 even funnier that so many people still attempt to use this road. Surely people know to avoid it by now.
Well, they're Mexicans. They're not the sharpest tool in the shed
I assume it’s merely terrifying in the dry, but in the wet is basically impassable.
@@JamesElise160 to be honest the more I think about it, I couldn't resist bying a crappy cheap car and insure it for a day over in that country just so I can attempt the road myself 🤣
@@JamesElise160 in the wet 🤣
@@johncapewell7520 Maybe a cheap car with some sort of roll cage would be in order then :p
love how the passerby at 1:08 waits for the car to be facing him before giving a cheeky wave
The "washboard" surface of the road is the problem causing less tire contact with road. Trying to stop on a bumpy surface has the suspension rebound and compression working against each other causing little jumps. Then this causes the tires to lose contact that equals grip with the surface. Closer the bumps are the worse it becomes. Ever notice when you try to stop at a light or stop sign on a bumpy road you can feel your vehicle start to jump/slide forward? That's the problem.
Maybe it messes with the ABS sensors?
That, plus many of these videos are from when it is raining.
@@gbone7581 I'm dubious that many of these cheap cars have ABS. The tires seem locked up in the vid.
That makes sense 👍
You could say the same thing about tread in a tyre… You dont see people driving around on slicks 😂 Civil engineers arent stupid… Remove the grooves and see how cars do in the wet 🤡
This is even better than 11 foot 8 bridge!
How soon will this road feature on Ashley's Analysis?
I disagree. Prime 11 foot 8 before it got nerfed wrought far more destruction, decapitating buses and slaughtering Penske moving trucks. Plus it was reading to feast all the time, not like this road that needs to be wet. 11 foot 8 ftw 💪
@@rsoul7282 Agreed. This road situation is really good, but that bridge is still the best.
@@rsoul7282 I get you 👍
That lady is an adrenaline junkie for staying in that house
True. I would have moved out long ago. But props to whoever installed those barriers, because they might be the only things keeping that hse standing.
Most likely doesn't have a better option like moving out.
Or just too poor to move...
She definitely don't need a TV, Fast and Furious playing outside the front door day and night.
She must be a bag of nerves bless her... Imagine how many times she's seen and heard wreckage's literally at her doorstep...
I absolutely love the fact this made its way to Ozzy! I live there in Mexico City and we all know about that street 😂
I love the way he completely burchers all of the hispanic names and words 🤣🤣
"Joe-say." I died.
Visited this place in 2017, couldn't believe this incline, was tempted to try it but the locals advised me not to 🤣🤣, it looks like nothing on camera in person it's insane.
Best part is, it's not the incline that causes this to happen. It's the grooves in the pavement. If it was just a regular road, these accidents wouldn't happen as often as they do.
I was about to say the same thing. It's not really that steep. I'm guessing that a little morning dew coupled with the grooves makes this road very slippery
Why is the road so slick though? Some sort of oily residue on the surface?
@@steveboyle6891 Yeah , probably sprayed some oil on the road by the local auto-body shops in the middle of the night 🤣🤣
@@Ken_1971 You're probably right, it is Mexico🤣
Hahaha! That lady who lives in that house should keep a running tally of all the crashes on a giant chalkboard on the outside of her place.
she could easily run youtube channel on profit
Yeah maybe one of those “0 days with no accidents” signs only it says “0 Dias sins accidentes” or something 🇲🇽 🚗 💥 🚙 🪧
“1 hour since last accident” 😂
She would have to quit her job.
She is operating an illegal betting shop in the back and is doubling her pension that way.
In this video: a demonstration of how sometimes you need to let go of your brakes and just let your wheels roll wherever they're gonna take you. (Alternate title: why ABS was invented.)
As a Canadian, I can say this is exactly the same way most people end up running in to posts on ice in the winter. No more steering if your front wheels stop rolling!
Shift back to first gear (or Low in automatics) and let the engine apply the constant braking force. No runaway, no slip ups.
That's what they thought us in Kazakhstan. When you're on icy road let go of breaks. Maybe just push and release slightly.
Every mountain biker knows this.
Minute 2:47 is the best ! Ozzy Man´s professional translation of the local authority : "Stop depending on private companies like the government to fix stuff, not our job ! " That is hilarious ! 🤣🤣
And that's without any snow or ice. Just imagine the fun they would all have if it snowed there.
There's this thing called black ice, which is what they're dealing with
@@LindaC616 black ice in mexico where everyone is wearing t shits?
@@LindaC616 Black ice needs cold to form. jfc
@@MajesticalHonky Check out the 1st 30 seconds. You will see the guy is walking along a light strip of sidewalk. The rest of the sidewalk is dark. The guy is hugging the building so he doesn't fall on his ass. It happens occasionally, and that is why it's an exceptional story and the news reporters are out there reporting on it 🤦🏻♀️
You kidding they would have to close that street in the winter if it got snow it would be impossible
That's not a Road, it's a Slide 😂
For real, they need to install some kind of toboggan track.
Whelp, I knew it was Mexico City with the first car being one of their pink and white taxis. Fun fact, basically every major city in Mexico has their own color scheme/vehicle style for official taxis. Mexico City is pink and white, although they used to be red and white years ago. Acapulco has white cars with either blue or yellow fenders, a lot of them being VW Bugs. Guadalajara has white cars with yellow on the doors and the hood. Monterrey has green cars with white roofs and white cars with gold roofs. Cancun has white cars with a green, semi-racing stripe down the side. Tijuana has white cars with either green or orange chevron on the hood.
I don't know if these are actually mandated color schemes or if they just have different companies in the different areas, but those are the ones I noticed while traveling over the last couple decades.
IIRC they are mandated. When I lived in Mexico city the taxis were iron man red and gold, so the government changes the colors from time to time.
@@DonVigaDeFierro - Good to know. I lived in Mexico City almost 40 years ago, but I don't remember the taxis back then.
I remember when the taxis in Mexico City were checkered green and white ;) and most of them were vw beetles (bolchitos)
Edit: and then there were the “peseros” (mostly vw combis)
"stop waiting on private companies, like the government, to fix this road" 🤣🤣 omfg that is good ear tucker Mr Ozzy Man.
It should be compulsory for all vehicles to have a horn that plays La Cucaracha and you can judge how far they get my how many notes they get out before crashing.
Jaja, menso. 😄
"Here's a beautiful pink truck, and it's fucked on!" LMAO
love how those steel pillars embedded in concrete keep the old lady's home safe..
I live in MX City and can confirm this street makes it to the news from time to time. I've said it many times but this street should be just closed. Also for the record, this whole neighborhood is in the outer area of the city, proof of the poor planning in the past when it came to city expansion
i actually thought they were sliding on ice.
Like we have cars sliding on ice every winter
Doesn't need to be closed, it needs to be repaved. That washboard surface is 99% of the problem. It cuts traction by 2/3. It's insane to have that kind of surface on a hill.
@@Boris82 mexico doesn't see much ice outside of a mixed drink. Pretty tropical.
@@kdrapertrucker
You're right, it it's not ice its a traction problem
@@kdrapertrucker the problem is that street was meant to slow down the flood of water during heavy rains, but it made a dead trap for cars. Those semi rural areas in the outside of the city re mainly built by the citizens themselves so are always an architectural horror
The way he absolutely butchers everybody’s names is adorable.
Love how that old lady didn't even budge that's a hardened old battle axe
First floor apartments there: worthless
Second floor apartments there: priceless
gravity has consequences
But where do you park?
@@gbone7581 in the sky. It is the only safe place
Imagine you're Mexican and you live in Switzerland: you would miss every day funny things like these.
Esa broma sólo funciona para los "sofisticados" seguidores de ElDeforma.
I feel like this particular road at what is apparently a 70-degree incline is a Mexican/Swiss love child.
@@batacafe
Esta broma no funciona con los chairos seguidores del cacas obrador
VIVA MEXICO! Where even the streets are absolute SAVAGES!
The road is at a 45 degree angle. So we have the following factors in MEXICO: 45 degree STEEP GREADE, car oil on the hill, rain, the siping should help, but not with the oil, warm countries tend to let their tires go bald. If they want to fix it, throw powdered Tide and Dawn down, street cleaner scrubber the crap out of it, pressure wash it, then put a coat of the asphalt sealer down with the deck traction you put in deck paint..... or..... flag the road off when it rains!
Before we had the Cursed Staircase from the Russian share house, now we have the Deadly Mexican Street.
Hats off to road engineer,who built this road probably high on work 🙂
High yes , but work ....only half assed and not up to code ....
Proof positive why not to hire them !
That ladies owes the stability of her house to those safety pillars.
"local Amazon truck" omg hahahahah ozzy im in tears... you are bloody fantastic mate.... keep it up
That Lady "I wonder what entertainment the road will bring me today".
I mean she stood there during every crash and enjoyed every minute of it!
Every day getting better mate! Thanks for bringing joy in so many lifes you bloody Mexican legend
Those yellow bars were the best investment on that street.
Viva Mexico! Vive the Revolution! Now fix the bloody road!
Private company like the government. Legendary statement Ozzy man!
0:29
The guy in blue shirt : "you reckon that was it?"
The guy behind him: "i think so too"
"I think we can help now"
"Yeah. That should be the last one"
¡Ozzy, hermano, ya eres mexicano! Great video as always, Ozzy Man!
The problem are the horizontal lines perpendicular to the flow of traffic. It keeps water moisture on the surface and also the groove only create less road friction
No. They increase friction. The problem is the steep angle, clearly.
@@alejandroperez5368 Also- speed
Friction on an incline is tangent of the angle between horizontal and incline plane. If you have a flat surface. Since they added groove lines perpendicular to the velocity vector thus decreasing contact surface as the tire rotates therefore causing slippage . As you can see on the video slippage is fast then rotational.if you lock up your back wheels the car will rotate the
@@juanlop8974 no Juan, that's not how it works. Wooden shoes are placed under the wheels to make sure cars don't move. Those grooves are following the same principle. Making sure the cars are attached to the pavement at all times. Except if the incline or speed are too large.
I'm actually surprised there isn't a group with score cards rating each smash.
In college my friends and I would literally do this, but it wasn't for cars.
1:48, 2:14
I like how the lady just stands ready all day to observe the cars piling up.
This could actually be better than the 11' 8" bridge saga. We need more!
That road not only looks like it's made out of licorice, it looks like it provides about as much traction.
I grew up in Venezuela and in the capital of Caracas there are roads like this. It can be pretty scary driving up or down them for sure
The roads in my country are very safe but many people die in accidents dancing on tables because people here like to dance on tables and the tables here aren't very strong. Please send more tables and booze. Thanks.
Body shop worker's and mechanics must be treated like kings over there 😂
The government line "not our job" hahaha on point 🔥 and pretty accurate lol 🔥✨
I love the way you pronounce the Spanish words 😂🤣🤣
What the heck is the road surface? That is obviously dangerous and can you imagine the size of the Black Spot sign at the top of that road XD Thank you for yet another classic vid, Mate
It even has the slits to increase grip and reduce liquid buildup...
It's for more surface area, so there's more friction.
Looks like there's horrendous amounts of rubber laid down on the concrete, and when it rains it becomes a skating rink. That combined with an obvious lack of talent of a lot of the drivers, plus some suspect maintenance on the cars and tyres involved, and you have a perfect storm.
@@uiomancannot7931 Except all the tires these taxis etc use are 6 year old, so they're effectively plastic. So all the ridges do is make the tires bump and keep losing traction, while the car accelerates downhill, and snowballing to destination fucked. These ridges might help a Pilot sport 4 or the like, but not what most people have.
Still doesn't answer the question though... *What the hell is wrong with that road* 😂
It doesn't make sense, acts like ice but I know it isn't... similar to oil residue but that isn't the case either
"That looks like a tourist with a rental car" 🤣
This road gives me hard PTSD. There's a road/bridge that has those awful grooves in it. My first accident at 16 was taking a left onto it, when it was raining, with all those stupid grooves, and I slid right up onto the curb and into a street sign. Didn't help I had a V8 engine and was never taught how to properly drive the car I was given.
Haven't cried from laugh for a decade, this made me do it.
The locals wax and polish that road weekly. Just for entertainment, shits, and giggles... It's all fun and games until a fully loaded 18 wheeler, or a double decker bus, gets directed down there by a satnav on a diversion route.
Isn't there some urban legend that a tyre company opened shop in a small town, then suddenly the amount of tyre punctures suddenly increased dramatically, and it turned out one of the tyre shop employees was scattering caltrops on the roads to drive up business?
They don’t. It’s the road they use daily, so, not at all.
Haha “Stop relying on private companies like the government to fix your problems.” Brilliant!
And a painful truth...
Guys you realise it's sarcastic, right? The government is the opposite of a private company. It's a public agency.
@@OntarioTrafficMan and that’s why it’s comedy gold.
@@OntarioTrafficMan The point is that our governments have been bought and paid for by the corporations... The governments are just a shell company for the people who are really running the show; the CEOs of the world. As such, how you spend your money is now more important than how you vote.
A huevo!! Al fin un video que expone la esencia de mi cultura mexicana.
Greetings from Nopaland, Mr Ozzyman
As someone who spent and loved a year in Oz, the amazing commentary is neck and neck for first place with the understanding of the phrase ‘sticky beak’ and the assumption almost every international viewer was thinking ‘WTF is sticky beak?!’ 😂
"dont overthink it" as the car spins down the road in circles and did not crash!!! HAHAHAHA
What material do they use on the road surface? It doesn't look like tarmac or cement. I could be wrong, but it just looks like a rubber road.
Something that sticks, but not enough when it rains lol
Looks like grooved concrete, maybe with a tar coating.
Chapopote (tar)
I reckon the ripple surface too, skating along on top of all those ripples and the road seems steep
Looks like it's some type of slick plastic or polymer, like Teflon or maybe even UHMW. I think they do that for entertainment.
This is the safest road in Mexico
Paso Florentino (scarier than El Cuco) is going to make a regular appearance on Ozzy man reviews ( much like destination f****d ). We have a winner !!!! 😀
Team Motorcycle Diaries 🤣🤣🤣 nice reference
That road needs it's own channel streaming 24/7
They should turn it into a summer ski resort, or a car and bike challenge, sport, thingy. Think of the business it would bring.
I prefer a manual transmission but on steep grades I always put my automatic transmission truck in low drive #2 if it is really steep which helps keep me from riding the brakes (which perform progressively worse the hotter they get) You'll see most of these drivers had locked their brakes and that is why they were sliding all over.
I'm going to try that in the snow.
@@-norsecode- Also the Police and their Jeeps have absolutely no excuse for losing traction as they have 4x4 low and should just easily crawl down that decline
@@intractablemaskvpmGy Right?!
One thing my dad taught me about his 4x4 truck is when to use low and high. Now I have a small car that won't move in snow above 3 inches. Still, I'll try the low gear for snow.
Just imagine the wreckage if the weather lady broadcasted live on the hill!
Duude ive watched you for years and as a Mexican I love the way you did this one, absolutely a gem!!
This is what I needed - work was an absolute mess today. Ty for the amazing commentary and laughs as always Ozzyman.
Also, Ozzyman, I miss Australia, visited Cairns for 2 weeks back in 2019 and had a fair dinkum good time. I hope to visit Australia again sometime.
Whoever put all those ridges in the surface of the road was just trolling the whole town. It cuts down tire traction by 50-75%.
There has to be a sign at the top of that street warning, “ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.” But, it seems most of the road warriors are, “Yeah, nah, yeah. Oh, no! It’s ‘Destination F*ck!’”
No, it's Mexico, which means there's no warning signs, no laws, no nuthin'.
I've been on roads like this that are very steep..what this road needs that the others have that I've been on are speed bumps every so many feet so your car can't slide down the hill
Better yet, just smooth out the road and get rid of the grooves. Those aren't helping. They make it worse.
At this angle, speed bumps would send cars flying above a certain speed...
Loved hearing an ozzy try and pronounce Mexican names.
I relate alot with Jose "habitante" Flores😅
Everybody in Mexico knows drifting ⛄️
In countries that don't have much mountains there are actually standards at which angle you can build a road and if the angle is greater than it is allowed you can't build a bloody road. In countries that have hilly or mountainous terrain they build roads almost vertically
How about that nearly vertical bridge in Japan..that thing looks like a nightmare no matter which way you're going!
Probably it was a rough-earth street to start with, suitable for walking and donkeys. Then there was a campaign to pave everything in the neighbourhood, and they duly paved it (looks like with concrete). Now people try to drive down it like it's a normal street. There are lots of very steep streets around in Latam that if paved would be just as bad. But this really is a classic.
@@birdflipper Those famous pictures of that bridge (Eshima Ohashi) are just an optical illusion caused by the photos being taken from distance with a large telephoto lens. There is nothing remarkable about its steepness at all. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eshima_bidge.jpg
Nah I live in Colorado and the mountain roads are switchbacks rather than super steep; even then the highway has pull-offs for trucks that are out of control even on the much-tamer-than-this-road angles.
@@PheOfTheFae same here in the Highlands of Scotland, switchbacks plus run offs. The steepest grade we have for cars is 10%
There is a street like that in Houghton Michigan that is very steep and gets covered in ice and packed snow, in dry weather its no big thing, but with rain or ice its a screaming hair on fire, diapers packed full, thrill ride at any speed. Houghton Mi gets over 200 inches of snow every winter.
Wait a minute, you wear diapers?
@@rsoul7282 Doubt he does on the regular, but if he has to go down that street in winter...
@@rsoul7282 nah mate, I'm a decade away at least from needing to wear diapers, perhaps two.... if I make it that long.
@@rsoul7282 look up "How to turn left in the UP" on here, there is a video of a sliding car that saves it. Houghton is in the upper peninsula, aka 'Da U.P.'
I was in Houghton once, way back in 2005. Was fucking freezing, even in October.
how has this only just become public knowledge? I feel this should've been sorted out much sooner, that's fucked up... funny for an Ozzy Man video, though, do more lol
@@ew5138 if it's doing that to cars, yes...
It may well be common knowledge there. But not here, wherever "here" is.
Likely here is not there. You hear?
@@bjb7587 yes, but it's 2022, I'm sure something like this would've come up years earlier, all the mundane stuff that for some reason is newsworthy, something like a road that is seemingly near impossible to drive on is kind of wtf news that should be out there more
You should do the soapbox races!
….please! 🤣
the slats in the road make it so there's not much road to get grip on.. combine that with that insane incline and you get quite an entertaining show.. thanks for the montage Ozzy Man!
If Lombard Street in San Francisco was “straightened out”, I reckon the end result would be similar to the hilarious Mexican mayhem we just witnessed here 🤙😂
Those hairpin turns though! They're so steep! Could you imagine the mayhem?! 🤣
@@queenb1119 … Oh it would be every traffic cops’ worst nightmare 😬😬😬 I’ve been down Lombard before & know what you mean & how steep that area around it is but if they straightened it out… All hell would break loose (traffic wise).
@@gerardroll6468 No doubt! 😄
I love you absolutely butchering the Mexican names!
Juarez was my personal fav
@@cheeen I died inside omg
Spanish names actually, imported over😎.
All those habitantes
@@cheeen How do you say that name then?
Ozzyman keep up the great content love every video cheers mate
0:53 "There's the local amazon truck"
That was a 🏆🥇review. Nearly pee'd me pants laughing and trying to be quiet.
As a Mexican, it feels good my country is represented in Destination F*ck3d.
As a seasoned mexican from mexico city I can tell you every street is a "deadly mexican street" jajajajaa
OMG!!! I am Mexican and this has got to be the funniest shit ever!!! Mexican angeniring at its best, so funny. But in all seriousness the local gov should do something.
Since your there as a Mexican can you tell me are there any vehicle safety inspections? My thought being these are vehicles that have no tread left on their tires.
It's an easy fix.
Pave the roads properly. All those grooves make it worse, not better. The tires can't get proper traction in order to stop. Just pave it over, smooth it out, and rate of crashes should drop dramatically, as long as it's not wet, frozen, or slicked.
@@writerconsidered nope, besides of inspecting motor emissions there isn't really other inspection needed and you can even pay to get the "verification" with a very crappy car.
@@the_SolLoser nah mate, Mexico is a really hill-y place, the groves on the road reduced accident a whole bunch in all lot of communities. That road is just very steep, also the aren't as many crashed as it seems, rainy season is when you get to see this a lot.
@@the_SolLoser I'm thinking the original reason was to control water not considering how it would affect tire traction. A smooth road may cause other problems when it rains that we are unaware of.
The incline on that road is close to 45 degrees. Probably okay when it's dry, but the occasional rain in Mexico City turns it into a slippy slide.
The commentary, the car crashes, with the Ranchero music mixed in the background. Just hilarious 😂
A perfect road for Vin Diesel to orchestrate the ultimate finale to his shitty Fast & Furious franchise.
very shitty. i see one problem though, your concept involves a car and a road. which seems a bit out of place in that franchise honestly.