Disneyland Autopia: A Magical Car Ride

SPOILERS BELOW: (Watch video, then read.) Ride along with the Disney Echo's Rich Koster, with his son ahead of him and his wife behind him, as they show why Disneyland's Autopia is a more magical ride than WDW's Indy Speedway in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom. There are spoilers in the comment below, so see the video first before reading it.

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[LovMeeXO]

When was this video taken? I mean in what year?? =)

[DisneyEchoTV]

@LovMeeXO 2008.

[ilypeter]

why is the car in front of you keep stopping.

i only stop when i know the person drinving behind me.

i love that ride.

waited 45 minutes for ir once.

[DisneyEchoTV]

But I do know the person in front of me. It is my son and he was driving by himself. Perhaps he wanted me to bump into him like I did on a previous time! As for my car, it needed a tune-up: sometimes it was backfiring and other times it stalled, requiring me to stop and then press the gas pedal again for the car's automatic-start feature to restart the engine. The same might have been happening with my son's car. Also, one time on this ride my wife behind me bumped my car!

[DisneyEchoTV]

No, this wasn't shot with my iPhone! ;) It doesn't take stills fast enough to play them back like that.

About 3:40 into the video it looks like I took a terrible tumble, but actually it was a zoom issue, caused by holding the camcorder in one hand, up to my eye because its LCD screen was too dim in the bright CA sun with my auto-darkening prescription glasses, and I lost track of where the center rail/curb was at thst point and tried to recover with one-handed steering while also . . .

[DisneyEchoTV]

Those crashes also did a number on the cars themselves, so a wrap-around, total car bumper was added soon after the attraction opened, in addition to a center rail so the cars wouldn't have complete freedom of movement and wouldn't have so many crashes.

At Disneyland's Autopia today they highly stress the "no bumping" rule!!

[pubaroo]

i love this ride a lot. my sister kept on making my mom and her bump a lot

[RocketRodder]

And for the record to would be butchers. It's "Ah- TO- pee -ah"

Not "auto TOh pia. " >_>

[TheDominatrex]

One time in 2003 i remember my dad and i went on this ride...but it was during the night and i remember being on this bridge with a huge lake under us. They must have changed something....or my memorys going, either one:) Long Live Mickey Mouse!

[witchwaygirls]

you should of played bumper cars!!! XD

[LovMeeXO]

You know what??!! I went to Disneyland in June of 2008. I walked around all day & my feet hurt. Then I went on this ride! And you have to push down on the peddle like really hard. And my feet already hurt so I HATED this ride that day!!!!! I was in so much pain, I shouldn't have went on this ride! Next time i'm just gonna let someone else drive! Hehehehehehehehe!!!!!!! =)

[16MrMusicMan]

i bumped into my friend cuz i was buzy watchin the fireworks lol.

[jamielin2365]

I love this ride it is very fun to ride on. I accidentally bumped into my sister's car really hard one timeand she got mad at me.