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In his career, Hanna estimated he crashed over 3,000 cars and jumped a collective 12 miles through the air doing the dive bomber stunt. [3] As Dusty Russell, he once attempted to dive bomb a car 200 feet over a Sacramento lake, a stunt that had already claimed two lives, but failed. Equipping his stock car with a breathing apparatus should he ...
Sherman Dwayne "Butch" Laswell (October 12, 1958 – March 10, 1996) [1] was an American stunt performer and professional motorcycle stunt rider. Laswell died after sustaining injuries during a live stunt in front of a crowd of spectators, while attempting to carry out a dangerous motorcycle jump in Mesquite, Nevada. The accident was captured ...
Tanner Lee Foust [1] (born June 13, 1973) is an American professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack, hill climb and rallycross with multiple podium placements, national championships, and world records.
In 2010, security researchers demonstrated how they could create physical effects and undermine system controls by hacking the ECU. The researchers needed physical access to the ECU and were able to gain full control over any safety or automotive system including disabling the brakes and stopping the engine.
The jump failed when the car began to fishtail on the runway and ramp, which ultimately put him in the water. Carter vowed to try the jump again and on September 5, 1983, made another attempt. His car, a 1982 Pontiac Firebird bodied car fitted with a homemade rocket, overshot its target landing ramp and landed on its roof.
This is the way in for the hackers, who are able to take over your steering wheel and breaks to remotely control your car. According to ZDNet ,"as many as 471,000 vehicles in the US are said to be ...
Davilex Games was formed in 1986. The company initially released PC software including accounting and edutainment programs [1] before expanding to the video game market. . Their Racer series of racing games were sold as budget titles and were top-sellers in the countries where they were
Replica of motorcycle used by Ekins for stunts in the film The Great Escape.. Through his association with McQueen, Ekins began a career as a film stuntman. [2] Ekins is best known as the actor who jumped the fence on a motorcycle in the 1963 film The Great Escape, and one of the stuntmen who drove the Ford Mustang 390 GT in the car chase scene in the 1968 film Bullitt.