When the bowling ball leaves the person's hand, the horizontal velocity of the car and the ball are the same, so their speeds should be the same at any time after that barring resistances. As a result, the ball will always be level horizontally with the car, leading to a collision.
When the Americans dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan, the planes had to slow down. Otherwise the bomb would have exploded directly below the plane which would have made for some rather unusual casualties.*