Ola Offers Cruise Control On Electric Scooters: Indians Do This With It! [Video]
Automotive manufacturers spend millions and billions of dollars and rupees on developing new technologies to make the lives of their customers more comfortable. However, people in India, on a lot of occasions, use these features in a way that companies would not imagine. Recently, Ola Electric started offering cruise control on its electric scooters to make riding easier on long routes. However, we now have a video where a young man from Pune was seen performing stunts on his Ola Electric scooter using this new feature.
Idiot uses cruise control for stunting
This video, showing a young man stunting on a highway on his Ola Electric scooter, has been shared on YouTube by Punekar News on their channel. It starts off with this particular Ola Electric scooter rider putting his right leg on the seat and spreading his arms like a superhero while standing on this electric scooter.
This particular stunt was made possible because of the cruise control feature added by Ola Electric. Soon after doing this stupid stunt, the rider was seen sitting on the scooter and taking control of the handlebar. He then started accelerating and also tried performing a wheelie. However, the stunting did not end after him doing this.
Instead of stopping, he then slid back on the seat of this Ola Electric scooter and then again left the handlebar while keeping the cruise control engaged. He was seen putting up his legs on the seat and sitting in a cross-legged position. Now, doing this on a scooter while keeping both hands on the handlebar is already extremely dangerous.
This idiot stunt rider did it while not touching the handlebar. Soon after this, he then put his legs on the front portion of the scooter and continued posing for the video. He was mimicking the “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” gesture while riding on the road.
Agreed to come to police station
What's even more surprising about this video is that this idiot stunt rider was thinking he was getting filmed by the person recording the video as he was doing something awesome. However, we can hear from the video that the person was actually asking him to report at the police station.
In the clip, it can be heard that the person recording the video asked this rider his name. To this, he replied that his name is Gaurav, and when he was asked about where he belongs from, he replied that he is from Madhya Pradesh.
Soon after this conversation, the person recording the video asks him to report at the Wakad Police Station in the evening. However, instead of apologising for stunting, this rider was smiling and even gave a thumbs-up before riding away. Now, whether he did show up at the Wakad Police Station is unknown.
Not the first time a feature has been misused
As unfortunate as it is, this is not the first time that a feature has been misused by people in India. Over the last few years, ever since Mahindra started offering its XUV700 with ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), people have been misusing it to create stupid reels for Instagram.
In many reels, people have been seen engaging ADAS and then either sleeping, eating food, playing ludo, or even going to the backseat with nobody in the driving seat. We have featured numerous similar incidents here on Cartoq. And no matter how many times it is highlighted, people continue to perform such reckless stunts on public roads.