World's Scariest Roller Coaster? (VIDEO)

While it's not the world's fastest or highest, this Austrian downhill coaster is nevertheless terrifying, as evidenced by this first-person video of the downhill plunge.

The single-pipe alpine coaster located in Mieders, Austria, is reachable only by taking a suspended cable car to the top of the mountain. Once at the top, riders sit on a small car equipped with a brake lever and zoom down the steep mountainside. But this brave soul decided to show us what it would be like without using the brake lever through the entire ride.

Thrill-seekers looking for an even more extreme ride can always give the world's fastest roller coaster a try, which can be found at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Formula Rossa achieves speeds of up to 150 miles per hour by using an "aircraft carrier-like hydraulic launch system" to propel cars along the track.

Can't get enough? Then take a scroll through this slideshow of the World's Scariest Roller Coasters according to Travel + Leisure magazine.

Comments

[jgaryson]

08:51 PM on 12/14/2011

Another freaky roller coaster http://www.rollercoastervideo.net/roller-coaster-videos/scary-roller-coaster/

Not as scary as this one, but close!

[Daniel Cline]

03:13 AM on 12/01/2011

awesome! germany is so beautiful!

[Gene Bertram]

11:01 AM on 12/17/2011

Yes it is, but this is Austria, not Germany.

[CoronaDischarge]

11:53 AM on 11/30/2011

That run without using brakes was pretty terrifying to me. If I had been on that cart, my only thought by the end would have been please make it stop. The other videos of it, however, look like fun with other carts on the track and some brake control.

[lisakaz2]

08:47 PM on 11/29/2011

Love it. Wish I could give that a go (not in my neighborhood).

[343Guiltyspark]

05:08 AM on 11/28/2011

http://youtu.be/Kjw5GhyZUu0

Shows the car and as it pulls into the station (although still doesn't really show how it stops).

[Vapula]

03:56 AM on 11/28/2011

Boring.

[Terrance Seney]

10:00 PM on 11/27/2011

Do they sell adult diapers before you start?

[charligirl]

04:33 PM on 11/27/2011

Had to stop at 2:04 - I got motion sickness from watching!!! WTH

[iLoveOldNY]

03:14 PM on 11/27/2011

I would go to Austria just for the single pipe coaster!

Just a challenge to you liberatarians:

If the State builds this on State land with tax revenue, it would build an amazing tourist attraction.
What is better for America? To adhere to an ideological political purity? Or have them build the coaster, and watch tourism in the area increase with business and revenue for everyone in small business?

Would I rather private industry do it? I don't know...
In a metropolitan are like NYC, how do you get the property?
Isn't it better for the community if 300 other independent businesses make money from it, rather than a Six Flags deal, where only 1 guy makes money?

[danger08]

10:54 PM on 11/28/2011

1) you want the gov't to build roller coasters???
2) Of course tourist revenue is good for the economy.
3) There are private businesses that build roller coasters. The gov't can barely govern...
4) I didnt know metro NYC had alpine like mountains to build coasters.(I guess you could hook it up to the side of the skyscrapers.)
5) If a private business builds a coaster the same suppliers have to supply product. The difference is the state didnt misuse the taxpayers money on building coasters. Since they didnt use it on a roller coaster it can go to something else. Like the debt from building other useless projects.
6) yes it is good for the community to make money. they make it from the tourists coming to ride it. They generally eat, drink, buy gas possibly stay the night. As far as any dispersion of funds, do you really think the gov't will cut a check to the mean businesses that stand to profit? If they were willing to do that, why haven't they done it yet? All the gov't projects going on, they're making money but arent dispersing funds? Gov't is the ultimate 1% capitalist that the Occupiers are angry about. They take what they want, live by different rules, protect their power, keep people under their thumb. To shorten it up, if they build a coaster, you aint gettin' jack...

[iLoveOldNY]

11:01 PM on 11/28/2011

Why not? They build parks.

This would make more money than a park, and more use.

[wallinmark]

01:26 PM on 11/27/2011

The bear in the woods says "Yumm fast food"I hope there is a hospital neer .

[Joy BittermanGandolfini]

01:01 PM on 11/27/2011

I have yet to go on a roller coaster and scream. There's no such thing as the worlds scariest roller coaster. There use to be in Brooklyn and I that because it was falling apart~! But scary, nothing today is anything like the original New Jersey Palisades Park Roller Coaster.

[wallinmark]

01:30 PM on 11/27/2011

My niece dared me to go on one at the Edmonton Famous Mall ride ,Oh yah is was scary , then she told me how one car went off the rail and had killed some one a month earlier. The little devil was she trying to get me killed???lol

[Joy BittermanGandolfini]

11:54 PM on 11/27/2011

next time tell her she's been removed from the will, lol. She'll think twice about doing that again. But I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Cyrus Trance]

10:19 PM on 11/26/2011

Not scary at all but a nice long leisurely cruse.

No inversions, Rolls, vertical drops, acute turns, or high speeds.

[rt1027]

06:58 AM on 11/27/2011

agreed

[Nancy Cronk]

02:32 AM on 12/02/2011

I am terrified of roller coasters, but Colorado has several Alpine slides like this, and they are very pleasant. I don't get it.

[kimchalister]

01:40 PM on 11/26/2011

We wanted to see how it ends --- how do they stop it? And what does the car look like?

[wallinmark]

01:31 PM on 11/27/2011

Me too..

[Gavin Bowerman]

01:30 PM on 11/26/2011

I think my biggest fear would be crashing into (or through) some form of wild life...

[wallinmark]

01:32 PM on 11/27/2011

Like a bear into fast food?

[brooklyncitizen]

01:01 AM on 11/26/2011

IT was all downhill how is that a roller coaster? and it was at grade.
More like a luge ride.

[lisakaz2]

08:49 PM on 11/29/2011

Indeed. Looks like an off-season use of a ski hill.