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  • 2017-10-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Are These Cars Narrowly Missing Each Other at a Busy Intersection? (en)
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  • An animated image purportedly showing cars narrowly missing each other at a busy intersection was posted to Imgur in October 2017: This gif, which has been posted with other captions, such as What kind of hick town and traffic without women, only shows a portion of the original video, which extends for about another 30 seconds and ends with a major crash involving a small yellow car, police cruiser, and a truck. This portion of the video, which you can view below, has a much more obvious CGI quality: If the unrealistic optics of the final crash sequence wasn't enough to convince viewers that the footage is fake, the original video was also labeled an experiment in visual effects. YouTube user Iñaki Merro uploaded the original video on 30 May 2017. Merro responded to several comments beneath his original post, explaining that the video was created with special effects and that he used the 3D modeling software SketchUp to create the crash sequence. Merro also said that he filmed several cars at this intersection and then edited the footage together to make it seem as if the cars were nearly crashing: Merro's YouTube page has several other experiments in visual effects. Here's another one of his videos which features exploding trucks, gun shots, and levitating vehicles: (en)
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