Is it? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/aug/11/car-fa...

OMG! Where's the video taken just moments before on the 7th floor? I know Texas isn't much for government regulations but I'd think building codes for parking garages would require, you know, barriers and walls. To keep people from driving off into oblivion.

Nope, they can use just steel cables. Plus it had already happened at the same garage less than an year before: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/car-dangling-from-parkin...

The city, which inspects buildings after construction is complete, has no record of having inspected those cables since the garage at Brazos and East Sixth streets was finished in 1981, city spokeswoman Sylvia Arzola said

Using multiple strings of high-tension, half-inch cables as a parking lot barrier in lieu of concrete walls is increasingly common, according to an Austin structural engineer, and is listed as an acceptable alternative in city and international building standards.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/year-old-cables-played...

Never heard the old saying "it rains cars and dogs"?

OK, now I'm paranoid.

You might also think you wouldn't get hit by a car in your second floor apartment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/01/1...

You might as well. If not Honda Civics, large chunks of ice and/or solid sheets of it regularly fall from buildings in the winter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/winter-weather...

Cranes toppling is also not that uncommon of an occurrence.

It could pop the curb and hit you