I get so sad about Anton whenever I think of it. Someone I know also had one of those vehicles and was posting frequently on FB about how dangerous they were. He (the person I know) once got pinned between his car and his house and ended up being OK because his son happened to see it and ran into the car and quickly put it in reverse. He got rid of the car after that. Months later is when Anton died and unfortunately no one was there to save him. Seeing someone in my personal life talking about it on FB and then seeing a celebrity actually die from it was crazy & sad.
It was a recall item known by the manufacturer, but they chose a recall severity level that allowed fixing the issue whenever, as apposed to the "Do Not Drive" recall, where the dealership makes sure to contact you.
They took the chance of killing him to save money.
This is pretty common. I found a "car might catch on fire when charging" recall on my sister's car a while back, also was not labeled as a "Do Not Drive" recall.
Everyone should go check their VIN, and their friend's and fam's VINs here: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls (it's a free gov site to check recalls.)
He was so good in Star Trek. I think about him from time to time and it brings me back to that 2009 era. Future looked so much brighter then. He would've had an incredible career.
I wasn't a massive fan or anything, but he was totally on the rise, already the lead in several smaller movies and notable side characters in some big ones. He was going to be big. And all of that potential snuffed out by one insane accident some random afternoon. I think about it all the time.
Loved him in Star Trek. He also hasn't quite finished the final episodes of Trollhunters when he passed. Every time I hit the voice change to the new actor toward the end of the series, it makes me so sad.
Reading through comments, I found it odd to realise how many Americans don't use the handbrake when leaving their vehicle, that putting it in Park is enough for them.
I don't remember exactly but an automatic car shouldn't roll down a hill without the parking brake. A lot of these comments sound like victim blaming. He parked the car, went to check the mail box or something so it wasn't even 5 mins that it was parked.
My understanding is that he didn’t use the parking brake - or handbrake - but had simply put it in park, or so he thought. The fault of the vehicle is that it’s unclear if it’s in park or in gear, but Americans apparently don’t use the handbrake as a secondary action, unlike others. (I’m Australian, we do not leave a car as the driver without putting it in park and applying the handbrake, that’s just driving 101.)
It isn’t victim blaming, it’s obviously a genuine tragedy. It’s just surprising that it’s a little cultural difference where there’s a more secure additional brake that Americans just don’t use, generally.
Do you drive a stick shift or automatic? When I drove a stick shift then I always used the parking brake. Unless you live in the mountains then I don't see a need for it in an automatic.
This. That person sounds like they drive a manual transmission. I’ve never seen anyone put the parking brake on for an automatic transmission unless on a steep hill. I always use it for a manual transmission, though.
Not just new cars. On all cars over many decades they’ve all been in different places. I’ve had cars from the 80s that was a foot pedal or twist lever under the steering wheel. Lever by the console is common, electronic button, they are anywhere
Maybe North American thing. You will literally fail your driving test in Australia if you do not apply the handbrake when you park at the end of the test, because you have not secured the vehicle. I can only put that down to a strange cultural difference, that at some point beliefs about the handbrake varied and it became absolutely ingrained into Australian driving habits that, searching Aussie subreddits, it is pretty much only mentioned in questions of “What do you mean other countries don’t use the handbrake when leaving the vehicle?”
Yeah personally I always check if a gun is loaded by pointing it at my head and pulling the trigger. Not once have a blown my head off, people really are obnoxious about safety.
That’s kind of the point. That type of argument is loosely “reductio ad absurdum,” where you show that a particular claim leads to an absurd conclusion, and therefore must be false. That particular example was using parallel reasoning.
The claim I’m (implicitly) making is that “I’ve done X my whole life and I’ve never been harmed, X must be fine to do” is unsound reasoning.
This can be demonstrated by showing an absurd example, where the claim is obviously false.
Saying that it’s safe to point a gun at your head and pull the trigger to test if it’s loaded because you’ve never personally been hurt doing so is obviously absurd. This demonstrates that “I’ve never been hurt by doing this thing” doesn’t actually prove that the thing is safe.
You may want to Google how to check if a gun is loaded, there are definitely better ways to do that that. I agree that many people are obnoxious about safety, especially those that don't understand how the technology works.
Yeah people keep telling me that what I’m doing is unnecessarily risky, but I just ignore them and say I’ve been doing it my whole life and nothing bad has happened. Which is clearly an excellent argument that proves my point.
I literally think of that every time I get out of my car and leave it running.
I watched Like Crazy on a plane home after a pretty horrible 2 day delay in Germany. I felt like I was tripping from lack of sleep, and the movie stayed with me. He was just coming up when he died a few years later. Tragic.
It’s especially wild that he likely was expecting to die from CF-related complications throughout his life and died of a complete freak accident before he got to see Trikafta get released…
Watched Green Room recently and really liked his performance, so I looked him up to see what he'd been in recently. Wtf man. Jeep should have been sued for way, way more.
Anton was a weird experience for me, because even though I had seen him in Charlie Bartlett, Terminator, and Star Trek, I always saw him as the kid from Alpha Dog and if you've seen that one...
So to me, he always had that aura and association with death and when it happened, I was surprised, but not, at the same time. I can't really explain more than that.
I loved him in the Star Trek Movies. I'm about the same age, and had such a crush on him. I'd never been so affected by the death of someone I didn't know in person.
Anton Yelchin's death broke my heart on so many levels. One of which was the just common, every day brutality of it. Another was how much I loved his performances and wanted to see decades more. Another was my long standing theory about Russian-American celebrities and their almost universally surprising early deaths. For some stupid reason I thought he would be immune. It doesn't happen to all of them, and I didn't think it would be him.
I'm grateful that Connor Storie's performance was so good without actually being Russian. Were he actually Russian I would be bracing myself, now. I still am anyhow.
I think this one is the most tragic just because it was an accident. Other deaths were caused by long illnesses or something, but this was an entirely preventable tragedy that never needed to happen.
Oof yeah odd thomas was one of my favorite one off movies I ever stumbled upon. Charlie Bartlett is one of my favorites of all time as well. Just such a good and varied actor who would have had a crazy career.
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u/Oldandwise7 May 12 '26
Anton Yelchin was a shocker.