Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Situational Awareness...

...You either have it, or you don't.

Watch this video, submitted by PISSED, as the perfect example of someone who does NOT have it.



Okay, raise your hand: Who saw that coming?

That is all.

17 comments:

Atom Smasher said...

Gotta be fake. No one and no thing is that ironic.

Jay G said...

Oh, I'm sure it's not 100% legit.

Still made me laugh like a tickled hermit tho'...

Anonymous said...

Did not see that coming.

I thought for sure that the reporter was gonna be the one who got squished.

-Raptor

Old NFO said...

Wrong car hit him, and yeah fake... but funny....

Alan said...

fake but hysterical?

John said...

I'm thinking this is not fake. As a biker, I know that everybody out there is trying to kill me. No amount of technology is going to save me from stupid drivers, nor will it excuse me from the responsibility to do a head check for cross traffic.

Reputo said...

Fake. The camera stayed steady and perfectly framed the accident. Of course maybe the cameraman has no human emotions either.

I didn't call it, I was expecting the guy to get hit by cars from both diretions.

John said...

I take that back -- just watched the larger version frame by frame and now I'm calling bullshit on the video. The physics of the impact don't work out, there's no corner damage on the truck, and the bike and its various bits of plastic are absent from the scene after the camera pans. Sorry to overanalyze -- it's kinda what I do.

Lissa said...

I'm with raptor, I thought Miss Bright Young Reporter was gonna get sideswiped.

I'm going to call "Fake!" because it makes me happier than thinking it's real.

Mike W. said...

Damn, I was waiting for the reporter to get taken out from the left....

Anonymous said...

That's why I teach my kids to look "left, RIGHT, left." He never looked right...

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

Umm...

I think it needs more work.

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

"The camera stayed steady and perfectly framed the accident."

I think it's on a tripod - I'm pretty sure the guy that comes on at the end is the cameraman. As far as framing, it was focused on the bike as he pulled into the road, which is the most likely place for that to happen.

"The physics of the impact don't work out, there's no corner damage on the truck, and the bike and its various bits of plastic are absent from the scene after the camera pans."

I'm not sure about the physics not working out - having seen many accidents, I can say you get some strange results from them. As far as damage, even in the smaller version I can see shattered glass (looks like a headlight) flying at the time of impact, so it looks like there was damage to the truck, it's just not in the picture. I think the bike is either under the truck or on the other side of it.

Also, the cameraman's apparent hesitation and confusion is pretty typical of a shocked bystander.

I'm leaning towards it being real right now. My only hesitation is because of the absolute irony of the whole thing.

Anonymous said...

You don't lose your (left) turn, you just lose your bike!

wv: "reaccoo" - what that bike did

Atom Smasher said...

Been so rainy here in MN this summer I haven't had my bike out ONCE.

bogie said...

As soon as I saw that he didn't check for traffic, I knew what was going to happen.

Don't know if it is real or not, but did see it coming.

Ross said...

Yeah, I laughed too... and I did see it coming; the guy never even twitched his helmet to the right.

I think it's BS, too - I don't think that the state of the art is anywhere NEAR ready for threat analysis by a computer yet. Give it another 10-15 years, and maybe.