A video of taxi passengers alighting and pushing the vehicle out of a roundabout is circulating online, sparking a witty caption on the situation.
“You board a taxi when rushing for time but end up you pay for the ride and to give a lift to the taxi!” the video caption reads.
Facebook page Beh Chia Lor – Singapore Road shared the video on Friday (July 29), noting, “In Singapore, taxi don’t give ride to you…you give ride to taxi!”
It appears that a taxi stalled after entering a rotunda.
A couple of seconds later, three passengers exit the taxi and begin pushing from the rear.
They pushed the taxi out of the rotunda and into a nearby street before the video ended.
The video initially confused netizens assuming that the men were trying to push-start an automatic vehicle.
“What on earth are they doing? It won’t start. You can’t push start an automatic car,” said Facebook user Teo Soon.
Here’s an explanation by Facebook user Fahmy Jasmin on why automatic vehicles can’t be pushed to starting after stalling.
“It is not possible to push-start an automatic car because automatic transmission cars have open clutches that stop them from being able to push start, unlike the manual versions that you can close its clutches that, in turn, cranks the engine and get it running. One of the best possible ways to crank an automatic transmission engine is to jump-start it.”
However, it was later explained by other netizens that the video was on fast forward, and the men were only trying to push the taxi to a safe location.
“Waluwei so many (don’t know wat) to call saying why push start. They are not pushing start. They are pushing the car to a safe location. For god sake. Haiz. I think the passenger and driver know that auto can’t push start sia. Really people. Haiz,” commented Facebok user T Max Khan.
“Kudos to the kind and helpful passengers!” added Facebook user Daniel Mok./TISG