David B sent me this amazing clip….
So, how many times did you have to watch the clip before you spotted it?
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David B sent me this amazing clip….
So, how many times did you have to watch the clip before you spotted it?
August 25, 2011 at 6:03 am |
Second viewing. Wow. That’s a pretty serious sphincter factor on that.
August 25, 2011 at 6:03 am |
I had to watch it 5 times before I saw it. Then I *had* to watch it a few more times because I was in shock!
August 25, 2011 at 6:03 am |
Just the once, but then you did set it up.
August 25, 2011 at 6:06 am |
I saw it the first time – but I wasn’t even sure if someone might have faked it or photoshopped it or whatever.
August 25, 2011 at 6:06 am |
I do wonder if it is real. Something doesn’t quite look right to me.
August 25, 2011 at 8:37 am
Yeah, that none of the other cars even swerve or brake is suspicious.
August 25, 2011 at 11:02 am
Yeah they do – maybe set up, but not photoshopped, although I have seen it before.
August 25, 2011 at 1:45 pm
The dark SUV slams on its brakes hard. The tires smoke, the SUV slows dramatically, the front end drops. It definitely brakes hard. So I’m going with real. Also, the driver of that SUV and its well maintained brakes saved a non zero number of lives that day.
August 25, 2011 at 2:30 pm
On second viewing, it seems the smoke is coming from the red light runner. It is possible that he too braked, or swerved ever so slightly, to avoid the white car. But the dark SUV definitely braked hard.
August 25, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Also, the people crossing the street follow the car with their heads.
August 25, 2011 at 6:10 am |
I am sure I’ve actually seen that before, maybe on one of those late-night clip shows. Good one, though.
August 25, 2011 at 6:12 am |
maybe I’m an idiot but what am I supposed to spot? The super ninja car?
August 25, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I know I was like ‘er, big deal? there are lots of idiots out there’
August 25, 2011 at 6:14 am |
I just sharted.
August 25, 2011 at 6:18 am |
The number of times I watched it after I noticed it > the number of times I watched it before I noticed it.
August 25, 2011 at 6:19 am |
Is it the super-fast car? What’s so special about that?
August 25, 2011 at 7:17 am
The fact that it clipped a car in the cross traffic on its way through?
August 25, 2011 at 3:47 pm
I know I was like ‘er, big deal? there are lots of idiots out there’
August 25, 2011 at 6:20 am |
I think the reason this looks fake is due to how the white car seems to suddenly accelerates to make room for the red-light runner to get past. After watching this closely, I believe this is simply an optical illusion caused by the fact that the black car is slowing down (truly a case of lightning reflexes).
Of course, there’s no way to be completely sure it’s not fake, but I don’t see anything in it that is definitely fake.
August 25, 2011 at 6:21 am |
It took me a few shots – maybe five…. Somehow, I fixed on the pedestrians who, it turns out, were cruising along in relative safety.
August 25, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Me too. I watched it several times, trying to figure out why the pedestrians stopped in the front of the van.
THEN I saw it.
September 6, 2011 at 6:09 pm
me three
August 25, 2011 at 7:17 am |
2 times.
August 25, 2011 at 7:25 am |
that’s so old…
August 25, 2011 at 7:49 am |
5 times
August 26, 2011 at 4:58 am
even i saw it 5 times 2 spot the difference….!
August 25, 2011 at 7:49 am |
Three times. I was distracted by the pedestrians and the white van — they seemed to be talking to the people in the van or something, which I assumed would be relevant. I only spotted the speeding car after reading the comments.
August 25, 2011 at 1:22 pm
I’m the same
August 25, 2011 at 7:51 am |
Twice – the first time I thought it would involve the pedestrians and was watching them.
August 25, 2011 at 7:59 am |
Third time watching before I spotted it. The pedestrians distracted me.
August 25, 2011 at 8:04 am |
3 times xD
August 25, 2011 at 8:10 am |
All I get is a black screen is the link broken?
August 25, 2011 at 8:18 am |
How can drivers do that?
Do they ‘see’ the gap they are about to drive through? (like the stories of tennis players and rear-gunners reacting too quickly)
Or are they just going along with their eyes closed?
August 25, 2011 at 1:46 pm
How? Luck. Pure dumb luck. That and the fact that the guy in the dark SUV had good reflexes and good brakes.
August 25, 2011 at 8:25 am |
First Time
August 25, 2011 at 8:34 am |
Four times – was watching the pedestrians each time and had to deliberately turn my attention away from them.
Very good
August 25, 2011 at 10:01 am
Me too. I thought that here is something magic, and the pedestrians seems to be disappeared.
August 25, 2011 at 8:34 am |
First time.
After watching the video in sloooooow motion about 10 times, I am quite sure that it is a fake. You can see for 0.1 seconds before the speeding car reaches the white car that its shadow disappears. Also, given the speed at which the white car is moving, it could not have moved out of the way in time.
August 25, 2011 at 8:50 am |
First time.
August 25, 2011 at 9:28 am |
3rd time!
August 25, 2011 at 9:28 am |
I saw it first time, but I was expecting an actual crash. It seems highly unlikely that it’s fake, just based on how many videos there are of real car crashes and real near misses there are on youtube. What would be the point of spending hours faking something like this (and yeah, faking a video like this would take many hours).
Here’s one of the many compilations, which includes this video;
August 25, 2011 at 9:41 am |
First time but I’ve seen this one before. (And on the first time I ever saw it I knew what to expect because the description said what it was.)
August 25, 2011 at 9:41 am |
I saw it the first time but I had to watch it again to be sure as I was watching the pedestrian wondering why they stopped for so long in front of the white van. I wondered if that was a clue. I would like to see evidence that it’s not an illusion.
August 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm |
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August 25, 2011 at 1:32 pm |
Impossible!!
August 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm |
I can’t believe I had to watch it 3 times before I saw it. That blows my mind. I wonder why this video has that effect. What is stealing focus that effectively? I think it may be the people in the crosswalk; perhaps we’re more apt to focus on other human beings first and foremost.
August 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm |
Saw it immediately. Had to watch again to see that it it wasn’t edited in.
August 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm |
I hope it was possible to get their number. I don’t want to ever have them in a car again.
August 25, 2011 at 3:53 pm |
Just once.
Can you find out who the driver was? I want him to pick my next set of lottery numbers
August 25, 2011 at 4:09 pm |
That intersection is right by my job at Harbor Ave & Wesminster in Santa Ana, CA
August 25, 2011 at 4:30 pm |
It looks real to me. Once while driving at the speed limit on the freeway, I saw a Pinto swerve to avoid another car, tip up on its side, bounce off the light metal fence in the center, land back on its wheels in the nearest lane and then keep going. Everyone else did the same … as if nothing had happened.
August 25, 2011 at 4:54 pm |
3 times. I was distracted by the Pedestrians
August 25, 2011 at 5:54 pm |
I’ve no idea what that was about. Can someone help?! Was it that when the black car on the right pulled up, the people who had been crossing the road got in and then got out and continued crossing the road?
August 25, 2011 at 6:41 pm |
Fake or real, what an inconsiderate, selfish, dangerous, jerk.
August 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm |
Emma,
Just as the black car is pulling up, a car on the right side of it speeds past, crossing the street and amazingly somehow not creating an accident.
August 25, 2011 at 9:37 pm |
I saw it the first time, probably because I knew that something was going to happen that I should look out for.
August 25, 2011 at 10:41 pm |
Twice – very good – I though it was going to be the pedestrians crossing in front of the camper van.
August 26, 2011 at 1:30 am |
That was cool! The driver didn’t even stop traffic flow. Boy he was lucky ! No one got hurt.
August 26, 2011 at 3:13 am |
First time. As a motorcyclist, I would attribute it to always being on the lookout for situations such as this.
August 26, 2011 at 4:19 am |
3
August 26, 2011 at 2:12 pm |
Once. Thanks for your warnings. What’s the video version of photoshop? I’m no expert, but I suspect that was not a real video
August 26, 2011 at 3:19 pm |
Once, actually. Sometimes you just have to rush to get to MacDonalds…
August 26, 2011 at 10:49 pm |
I think it is either faked or staged. The fast car just looks unnatural, But the main reason for my opinion has to do with the motive of the photographer, which is always my first question when seeing this type of thing. How is it that someone just happened to be filming this particular intersection at this particular moment. Unless it was an automatic surveillance camera like they have in stores. But I have seen a lot of surveillance camera footage and the quality of this scene is much better.
August 28, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Did you consider that perhaps the video has been resampled to lower quality at some stage, perhaps for display on YouTube?
Clearly it’s a fixed surveillance camera.
August 30, 2011 at 11:53 am
I though the SA WEHA 01 in the lower left corner probably indicated a traffic cam location, so I googled it. Turns out people on several websites had the same idea. It apparently means ‘Santa Ana, Westminster & Harbor, camera 01′. One site had a comment from someone who found a piece of bumper in that intersection the next day. If you look closely, something does appear to come off the speeding car, so maybe that’s what he found?
August 27, 2011 at 3:48 pm |
second view
August 29, 2011 at 2:34 pm |
2nd time lucky… so dangerous
August 29, 2011 at 6:09 pm |
So there is this dark SUV which slams its brakes. See there is a white pickup just behind (from camera’s viewpoint) the dark SUV. And behind that white pickup there is a white car. Let’s follow this white car since 0:06, as soon as it appears in the view. Keep on following it – do not look at the speeding car – and voila the white car changes its color.
August 29, 2011 at 6:31 pm |
Just once
I assume this is a altered video…
a little like running between the raindrops.
I never have been able to manage that feat.
August 31, 2011 at 2:21 pm |
Some people see McDonald and cant help but speed toward it.
September 1, 2011 at 8:15 am |
This is a great thread, so much info, was wondering about how to do the conversion most of last night but struggled with some programs. Just working my way through the advice, cheers.
September 2, 2011 at 10:48 pm |
(In response to title) That’s what she said.
September 10, 2011 at 4:04 pm |
This was a definate ‘spot the gorilla moment’ and I did gasp when I finally saw it!