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That video was brutally edited. I guess it's marketing but it somehow manged to be two minutes long and reduced the actual content to look like a toy car slowly launching without any frame of reference before quickly cutting to a bird?

Like, watch Mythbusters or Slow-mo guys and try again.

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Maybe I'm misremembering, wasn't Mythbusters like

https://tenor.com/view/truck-speed-loop-gif-17654345

Usually they would do that, cut to commercials, and then show the full thing in slow motion. Irritating, but not quite the same.

I hate you for this but this gif will never not be entertaining

Zeno's Truck.

That wasn't mythbusters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtZDDQga4o&t=85s This example seems just fine.

I hope you’re joking, although I don’t see the joke. That Mythbusters video changes camera angle every two or three seconds at most.

Also, that particular example doesn’t show the thing they were notorious for, which is showing the same thing from multiple camera angles just before the payoff and then cutting to a commercial break. That’s probably because this was their final episode and their audience engagement tricks didn’t matter so much any more.

I always assumed the show was aimed at people with crippling ADHD.

came here to say this. I mean, if the car actually did break a record - and I'm not questioning that - then actually showing it happen, in a visually recognisable way, might be, you know, a good idea?!?

Dubious video aside, congratulations to the students. It would be great to see/hear what they did to achieve it. For example: I'd imagine traction off the line would be a big challenge for something so small (and presumably light). They did warm the tyres (video at least showed that) but what else? Traction control? Most likely yes. Anything novel in its implementation?

Be good to get some detail behind the result.

Yes. There's so much slow motion and fast motion there's no sense of how fast the thing accelerated.

Admittedly they're trying to dramatize something that took 1.2 seconds, which is hard. But still.

https://youtu.be/xjDK0LhKkMs?t=85 to cut to the chase. It's hard to discern from a routine Tesla with the pedal down perhaps because we're bad at telling small amounts of time apart.

And it’s hard to judge speed from a video anyway.

https://youtu.be/54Oy75Bnu_Q

Good one. The static camera shots from distance with human references are probably better on this video anyway https://youtu.be/bO7HlsAbhQk?t=50

Video games use this trick all the time. When the player sprints or gets a speed boost, give them some actual boost, but also increase the FOV.

Mythbusters isn't a great example, to the point that there are re-edited episodes floating around that remove all the superfluous teasers, "coming up"s, and unnecessary repeated shots.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_...

This is why I, and you, read the comments first.

My thought exactly.

There is not a single normal shot of that car accelerating from outside the car so you can actually see it accelerating fast. It's infuriating.

I guess the marketing department of the university did the video editing...

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