Crazy Driver Nearly Killed By Train
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Yeah, why would there be a camera there?
Collecting license plate numbers of idiots like this?
Translation: Extreme clinching of the buttocks.
>> ^MarineGunrock:
Yeah, why would there be a camera there?
Collecting license plate numbers of idiots like this?
Maybe... but it's not exactly ideal placement to see plates.
must be fake. check the car on the left 20seconds in. just disappears.
Good call. I just reviewed it and the car just pops off the screen. At the end of the video, you see further cars coming down the same street and there is no sudden "disappearing act" of them.
At the very end of the video after the car pulls away from the track, you can see some type of ghosting of the vehicle that appears somewhat unnatural. Perhaps it's just the distortion of a Flash-based video, but something seems fishy to me.
And this can't be a license plate cam because it is in incorrect placement for one. It would be head on with the crossing. It could just be a safety cam watching the intersection.
The ghosting is just an interlacing effect smoothed out by the small res and compression of the video which is only noticable for rapid motion, and you can see it on the train too.
The car stops, because it appears the barrier only blocks the incoming lanes of traffic, so the driver entered in the opposite lane and had to navigate around the barrier on the other side, but obviously failed to do it smoothly.
Timing being too perfect is not proof of anything, there are many examples of crazy near misses.
I do however, concede poor camera placement for license plate collection, but it's not necessarily evidence of fakery, and the other evidence given is weak at best.
I think this was done in one of 2 ways.
1) 2 separate shots filmed at very clos to the same time. Probably train first, then car, to minimize change in lighting. The 2 films were then merged with most of the background being masked out for the car, which would explain why the car on the left disappears. It is entering the mask area.
2) Real train, CGI car.
Plus you have no idea what country this is in. I live in Boston and I've seen more than one amtrack crossing where it's possible to weave between the two arms. Just because crossings in your area are designed to prevent this doesn't mean that it's the same everywhere else.
Other than the "unbelievability" (which is hardly grounds for dismissal), I see no evidence that this is fake.
Oh, and look up the design strategies for mass transit systems like railroads. Cameras are often strategically positioned not to get license plate numbers but to aid in proper train management and scheduling.
Its not fake, just idiocy. The disappearing car could be explained by a number of things. There is clearly a house or barrier there that could block sight of anything going behind it. Its very possible the road actually splits into a Y there (infact 3 blocks down from me is exactly just that).
The pause in the middle of the train track is not only uncommon, but ANYTIME ive seen someone navigate a gated crossing (which generally only has arms long enough to block the incoming lane on each side of the crossing) they make a pause at that point because theres not much room (or less then they thought) and need to make a sharp enough turn as to not put a new racing stripe in the side of their car from the gate arm.
As for the camera...considering there isnt much that we DON'T video tape, I imagin to catch such incidents as this, they have a camera that is linked to the alarm system. Its only designed to see when people do it, not who. If they find alot of people are circumventing the gates then they can step up to things like quad gates.
Infact lets get it out now... all videos must have multi angle shots, uncompressed so we get the original video, and GPS cordinates of where and when it was shot.