Yeah. Something seems off about the truck's tires and skid marks. Also no sound of the skidding tires and near zero reaction time for the driver to be able to blow the horn, yet they did.
I’m amazed by the use of drones for agricultural spraying. Ingenious. Former coworker talked about agency using drones w thermal cameras to ID bad solar panels.
One of the first things I let my son do when we gave him a proper drone (instead of the $20 ones that are uncontrolable), is make shots of our solarpanels as Goolge Earth severely lacks detail...
Some sleuths on reddit deduced that it's CGI. The shadow's behavior is imperfect (it does not mirror the drone's change in pitch during translational motion), and the grass does not budge even though a drone of that size would generate a significant downwash. It's very well done though.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the shadow pretty clearly reacts to the drone pitching forward. Perhaps the easiest thing to look for is the RTK antenna on the front.
I was gonna,say. The shadows are too perfect and although the framing of the video is shaky, the visual focal center is on the drone, which no shaky camera could accomplish. My minor in rendering finally paying off on reddit!
People on Reddit calling it fake doesn't make it fake. This shit happens all the time. I know this as a commercial DP that works on sets & has a large community of fellow videographers. I see nothing that confirms this as CGI.
$30,000 quadcopter for aerial spraying. In the longer video you can see a tank in the truck for refilling it. I'm wondering if this was like a municipal weed control thing and so they were rolling down the road launching this every so often or something. Also it's legally their fault but man if I saw that thing in the opposing lane I would definitely slow the hell down.
Mine lasted several months now, but I live in a place with very windy summers so I haven't even taken it out more than 8 hours of flight time altogether
So this never happened to a single person anywhere ever? You can say that in 100% certainty? Do you know any of the people related to the video in any way? After answering all these questions could you please explain it to me like I'm five years old what the fuck does it matter whether this particular piece of video is fake or not?
Why did he start going forward so quickly. Should have clear straight up, then forward. Only proceed forward after clearing potential obstacles, like using a big crane
That looks like Korea. And that grassy field is a rice paddy. The Drone distributes pesticides. You can't set up the drone in the rice paddy it is too wet and muddy and you will damage the crops you were paid to take care of.
§39 StVO legt fest, dass Fahrbahnmarkierungen immer weiß sein müssen. Nur temporäre Markierungen dürfen gelb sein (Baustelle). Das sieht mir aber nicht nach einer temporären Markierung aus.
Love the videos where they know something is going to go down, so they film the scene with jacshit happening forever, right up until shit does go down. then they decide to take random ground panoramas
...you dont see alot of videos from brazil, south asia, and africa do you? if they dont take off their helmet, RUN!!! if they pull up fast and stop suddenly, RUN!
Here's the stabilised version I promised! I didn't use Virtualdub2, I used Topaz Video AI, however, so the roll/zoom is unaffected by the stabilisation…
SHIT, thanks for pointing that out, I can't figure out how to post an mp4 with sound to Imgur, but I'll reupload it as soon as I find out how; I'm hoping it's not a browser issue as phone programs have much more robust options than the browser version as with tic tok/Instagram!
It is pretty much totaled. At the very least it would require new rotor blades, a new engine, and everything that is between those two things. Would more than likely be cheaper to buy a new helicopter.
Yupp it's mostly some spare parts now. Save some bolts. Most things that should be straight is bent. Well you could use everything from the control panel and things like that.
That is what they get for landing a helicopter on the road. And if they had a legit reason to be there they should have had someone flagging traffic around the width of the blades.
there was (presumably military / security dressed in black).. then they got back into the helo (guessing because it was going to take off) and that was when the truck turned the corner.
Nah. Much further away than that. The air flow from the rotors can turn loose rocks into potentially lethal projectiles. Lived next to a hospital without a dedicated pad. Whole street needed to be blocked every time.
I'm sorry but how fucking blind and deaf do you have to be to drive a truck towards a helicopter and think anything other than that was going to happen. Even if it was coned or had a flagger nearby, I still think this moron would make the same mistake twice
🎵Ooh, bop-bop-bop Ooh, bop-bop-bop (na-na-na-na-na)Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot🎵
Land a 747? The wingspan of a 747 is 225 feet, and it needs somewhere between 4 and 6 thousand feet of level, straight tarmac that can take a rather suddent impact of 200-210t of 150mph aircraft hitting it.
That... is not accurate at all. A 747 requires about 2km of perfectly straight pavement to land on. not to mention the ground pressure of having about 250 tons of aircraft on 18 wheels.Noy yo
Igotfourbedrats
Same thing happened to Iron Man.
GODzillaFH
Wow, these forced perspective clips are going wild!!!
JustTryingToLiveLife
“You get what you fucking deserve” gif.
hotdoginathermos
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Anyone talking about flying cars and what not just need to see this video and many alike.
neuronicle
I hate when that happens.
bnuihj
That looks expensive.
5ing
They are lucky they only did property damage. Could have been much worse
DidItForScience
Might have hurt the driver.
GentleTex73
Common sense wasn't part of the plan that day.
pugcashingout
I would say 7-10 years for attempt to murder and being morons in general
HeHeHebieJeebies
Leonard never believed the Gypsy womens prediction that four lawnmowers would crash through the his truck windshield...
goobernoodles
Looks fake.
GermanGuy79
No. You can hear "Alter" thats real German
CanuckleheadChick
Magnificent!
MeisterKleister
Drone looks CGI. Its shadow contours stay unchanged and crisp even after liftoff. Truck might be CGI too actually. Not sure.
CapitalNick
Yeah. Something seems off about the truck's tires and skid marks. Also no sound of the skidding tires and near zero reaction time for the driver to be able to blow the horn, yet they did.
THUB
100% The shadow doesn't change shape when the craft tilts
GermanGuy79
Alter
TeelMoobeel
Damn these drones are big nowadays! Now I can see them delivering explosives like in RU / UA.
IAmGORT
Got him!
egoAristippos
Ooops!
Abearinthezoo
Manbehindthemadness
This is why having a spotter is 1 the law, and 2 saves a shit ton of money. The pilot never saw that coming.
TheBlueMuppet
Thats a DJI agricultural drone, so thats probably not the us and spotter may not be the law.
Manbehindthemadness
Aha, it def looked like a duster, wasn’t aware DJI had scaled up that big.
ariania
Merky600
I’m amazed by the use of drones for agricultural spraying. Ingenious. Former coworker talked about agency using drones w thermal cameras to ID bad solar panels.
ricpaul
One of the first things I let my son do when we gave him a proper drone (instead of the $20 ones that are uncontrolable), is make shots of our solarpanels as Goolge Earth severely lacks detail...
ricpaul
(There have been some changes between Google and the drone pic)
Jawesome19
Man if only there was a large grassy airy near that they could have done this in
MarkusAwesomesauce
He was clearly flying the drone over to said grassy area...right?
putcleverusernamehere
A) that's a big ass drone B) situational awareness my dude
astrofuzzics
Some sleuths on reddit deduced that it's CGI. The shadow's behavior is imperfect (it does not mirror the drone's change in pitch during translational motion), and the grass does not budge even though a drone of that size would generate a significant downwash. It's very well done though.
MikieSwart
man it’s good but yeah, something about it looks… off
kittybuttwiggle
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the shadow pretty clearly reacts to the drone pitching forward. Perhaps the easiest thing to look for is the RTK antenna on the front.
ATerribleArtist
I was gonna,say. The shadows are too perfect and although the framing of the video is shaky, the visual focal center is on the drone, which no shaky camera could accomplish. My minor in rendering finally paying off on reddit!
iamnatmann
Trees also look kind of off too
duetnao
People on Reddit calling it fake doesn't make it fake. This shit happens all the time. I know this as a commercial DP that works on sets & has a large community of fellow videographers. I see nothing that confirms this as CGI.
DidItForScience
Here's a higher resolution version if you want to take a better look to help confirm your assessment. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJ41RvN9DfA
randomusername9994
My company works with drones and I dislike them but not as much as I dislike most drone operators.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
$30,000 quadcopter for aerial spraying. In the longer video you can see a tank in the truck for refilling it. I'm wondering if this was like a municipal weed control thing and so they were rolling down the road launching this every so often or something. Also it's legally their fault but man if I saw that thing in the opposing lane I would definitely slow the hell down.
mercbrit
Longer?
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
The actual video is like two seconds longer and pans to the left a bit at the end, where you can see an IBC tank or something in the truck bed.
mercbrit
I know what longer means thanks, where is the link?
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
It's on Douyin, the Chinese version of tiktok.
mondeca
According to imgur the average lifespan of a drone is about 3 seconds.
SaladinIskander
If they're including the hundreds of thousands of drones being used in Ukraine then yeah I can believe that average lifespan.
MapleSyrupMafia
Ukrainian dones: LAND NOW! Sure thing boss!
drcookieninja
Mine lasted several months now, but I live in a place with very windy summers so I haven't even taken it out more than 8 hours of flight time altogether
EricRovelo
Oof
TheBlueMuppet
I have 9 quads and i live in a city where I'm trying not to lose them in someone's expensive houses, so i dont fly much irl. Just sims.
Dunothar
What fucking idiot starts a drone on a non closed street? Just start it on the patch of grass to your fucking left.
fantasyfungi
Career change moment
backrideup9
Or just wait 10 seconds...holy hell that was instant karma.
mrthewhitee
And who doesn't look right before sending it off across an open road?
Sidewaysgts
Fwiw, this is fake / cgi.
jaakkopaakkonen
So this never happened to a single person anywhere ever? You can say that in 100% certainty? Do you know any of the people related to the video in any way? After answering all these questions could you please explain it to me like I'm five years old what the fuck does it matter whether this particular piece of video is fake or not?
dmd3eorg
Why do you say that?
EvoNovus01
Why did he start going forward so quickly. Should have clear straight up, then forward. Only proceed forward after clearing potential obstacles, like using a big crane
Firestar002
Could’ve been a strong gust of wind or just didn’t have time to orient itself.
MrStealUrMeme
I think the video accurately demonstrates his ability to think like that
Valkyr1987
Programmed routes can do some weird corner cutting
AmazingA
That looks like Korea. And that grassy field is a rice paddy. The Drone distributes pesticides. You can't set up the drone in the rice paddy it is too wet and muddy and you will damage the crops you were paid to take care of.
AlfredGaebeli
The guy says: 'Alter' which is german.
rotzverpopelt
Yeah, the sounded German. But we don't have yellow lines on the streets
Batkhaan
Na Klar, wieso sollten wa nicht, sehe die oft
rotzverpopelt
§39 StVO legt fest, dass Fahrbahnmarkierungen immer weiß sein müssen. Nur temporäre Markierungen dürfen gelb sein (Baustelle). Das sieht mir aber nicht nach einer temporären Markierung aus.
LooseyGooseyBrett
That doesn't bother me. Simply starting it without looking both ways is the problem
UseTheSource
I think they underestimated the wind
mercbrit
That’s almost as stupid as this.
Davedavedavedavedave
COMING THROUGH
pullingsixty
Hello, State Farm?
TZO2k15
I've uploaded it via YouTube as, apparently, browser users can't post with sound to Imgur… https://youtu.be/8oINFLJV9fo
CanuckleheadChick
This one is much better.
jamsplodge
Not what I expected to happen. Thought it was just gonna fly up into those wires.
gizmomelb
look a at the power poles - they are on either side of the street. No actual wires above the helo at all.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
Filming vertically? Yup, pretty stupid.
thomn8r
I'll take "Wadsworth Constant" for $1200, Alex
Init1alDee
And this is why we have so many regulations on operating things that fly.
thomn8r
And almost as stupid as recording this vertically
WatashimoLurky
Love the videos where they know something is going to go down, so they film the scene with jacshit happening forever, right up until shit does go down. then they decide to take random ground panoramas
McAltec
The most alarming thing was the amount of motorcycles.
jonReremy9669
...you dont see alot of videos from brazil, south asia, and africa do you? if they dont take off their helmet, RUN!!! if they pull up fast and stop suddenly, RUN!
TZO2k15
Here's the stabilised version I promised! I didn't use Virtualdub2, I used Topaz Video AI, however, so the roll/zoom is unaffected by the stabilisation…
SirSmurfalot
Missing sound now.
TZO2k15
SHIT, thanks for pointing that out, I can't figure out how to post an mp4 with sound to Imgur, but I'll reupload it as soon as I find out how; I'm hoping it's not a browser issue as phone programs have much more robust options than the browser version as with tic tok/Instagram!
Daverson
They could have cropped 30 seconds off the beginning and as ua bonus it would have eliminated the SeizureVision™ camera work.
APKicker85
solmazer
Is that 'copter now just totalled or can it be repaired for a reasonable price?
q2grapple
My dad has a full@st of tools. We can totally fix this
theonetheycalldude
It is pretty much totaled. At the very least it would require new rotor blades, a new engine, and everything that is between those two things. Would more than likely be cheaper to buy a new helicopter.
OBM1
paint job, flex tape. "Only serious buyers, I know what I have."
Bubbells
That one is pretty much totaled, some can be saved, but.....
MasterMookie
Yupp it's mostly some spare parts now. Save some bolts. Most things that should be straight is bent. Well you could use everything from the control panel and things like that.
Filanwizard
That is what they get for landing a helicopter on the road. And if they had a legit reason to be there they should have had someone flagging traffic around the width of the blades.
gizmomelb
there was (presumably military / security dressed in black).. then they got back into the helo (guessing because it was going to take off) and that was when the truck turned the corner.
HighQueenEmma
Nah. Much further away than that. The air flow from the rotors can turn loose rocks into potentially lethal projectiles. Lived next to a hospital without a dedicated pad. Whole street needed to be blocked every time.
Moose79
I'm sorry but how fucking blind and deaf do you have to be to drive a truck towards a helicopter and think anything other than that was going to happen. Even if it was coned or had a flagger nearby, I still think this moron would make the same mistake twice
The3rdwheel
you know.. most highways are built to allow aircrafts like helicopters and airplanes to land on
Maaatth
But still need to have people blocking traffic.
RoyalWithChz
But that’s a parking lot
The3rdwheel
🎵Ooh, bop-bop-bop
Ooh, bop-bop-bop (na-na-na-na-na)Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot🎵
Woahli
doesnt mean you should without reason
JoeMangoJello
They had a reason: they were making a lunch run to pick up tacos for the office. It was tuesday!
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Christiansen20071969
Land a 747? The wingspan of a 747 is 225 feet, and it needs somewhere between 4 and 6 thousand feet of level, straight tarmac that can take a rather suddent impact of 200-210t of 150mph aircraft hitting it.
Init1alDee
That... is not accurate at all. A 747 requires about 2km of perfectly straight pavement to land on. not to mention the ground pressure of having about 250 tons of aircraft on 18 wheels.Noy yo