The good thing is that this isn’t even a very modern car, it’s a Chevrolet Cavalier probably from the late 90’s, not sure how fast this car was going when it hit the ground, probably 40-45, and 90’s cars weren’t made to safety standards of today, so yeah it’s impressive
For those who are wondering (And Gav did ask), an object dropped from 80 feet (24.38 meters) would hit the ground at 21.86 m/s (78.70 km/h or 48.90 mph) Edit: Watching the car drop with the crumple zones, and yet how intact the passenger compartment really gives me a new appreciation of the engineering that goes into making crashes survivable. If you are wondering, the NHTSA tests cars using the "sled test", and, per this doc (www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/frtesv9.pdf) the front end crash test is performed at 48 MPH.
Just cause has better damage modeling, pieces falling off, dents, scratches, dust, fading paint. Plus their practically invincible while your driving them, once you jump out though their like tin cans
5:38 "I don't think I've ever seen a car more annihilated than this." Look up the Mythbusters episode where they use a rocket sled to launch a steel plate into a car. That car just turns to dust.
i honestly donlt understand. I meam, even if you dont enjoy them doing big stuff, you still have years of content to watch until this lasts, which is a couple months. just pretend it is not there
Watched all of them, and I love them. Just my personal opinion, this feels like a sell out when Gav has cameras and creativity to do awesome stuff with out the big production, as we all have seen. Hope they got crazy $$$ for this.
This is also a perfect example of when you hit a car into a building or a tree. The higher up you lift the car, the more speed it has when it comes down, and the effect is the same as if you're on the road and hit your car into something. Drive safe ♥
"We got a 40 ton crane lifting it up 80 feet, I wonder what speed it will be when it hits the floor?" Lets do some basic physics: We can use the 1d kinematic equation vf=sqrt(vi^2+2ad), where vi is the initial velocity of the car (0 m/s), a being acceleration due to gravity (roughly 10 m/s2)and d being 24 meters (80 feet in non science units). Plugging this all in we get 21.9 m/s as our final velocity. For non sciencey types, this is roughly 49 mph. The mass does not matter for velocity, as everything falling falls at the same rate. So it's a pretty fast hunk of metal.
80ft into the air => mgh = mv^2/2 => 71.8 feet per second on impact => 48.9 mph on impact. So, it should look similar to when you crashed the two cars together
The thing i like about the slo mo guys is that they dont clickbait. Whatever you see on the title is all they focus on in the video there is no unnecessary footage
I do enjoy this. But to be honest, you don't have to go that big to impress me. I think it's great you're having success and a big budget and a proper show and all that stuff, it's deserved! But actually the small things look great in slow motion too, it doesn't have to be a car or an entire shelf. Remember the milk with droplets video, or the small paint glasses with bangers? Watching these small particles or explosions in slow motion always blows my mind and makes the concept of time stand out even more than if there is too much going on like in a car crash or a big explosion. Old wisdom but true again: it's the small things! ;) Keep going and maybe take this opinion into consideration! Peace!
Just wanna say that this show is awesome, you always want to know what things look like in slow motion and the fact you got a show with a crew is just perfect. Video length is perfect as well as editing!
from a quick suvat equation, I worked out, taking air resistance out, an impact velocity of 39.6 metres per second. (based on the average mass of a car being 1 metric ton)
I saw a concrete rail fall off the flatbed truck carrying four rails and fall off the top of the stack in Phoenix. No injuries, no cars smashed, but the road bed was dented!
So I've been watching your channel now for a couple years and I'm wondering why you guys don't flim as quickly anymore. You used to get 170000 fps but now youre just doing 1000 and 2000 fps
They do still film at those higher speeds. This was all done last year for RU-vid Original. They can't put out any more of their normal ones until the last of these clips is out.
This is shot in 4K so they can only go up to 1000fps. The higher the frame rate the more light you need so with very high fps footage the resolution has to be significantly decreased or the video will be too dark. Because this is YT originals they are stuck shooting at very high resolutions so it looks more "professional" and "high quality".
I don't think its so much to do with lighting levels as its would be easier to increase it with some 20k HMI's lights, I suspect its more to do with 4K camera technology only being able to able to process 1000 fps because of it resolution and geeky problems to do with write speeds
We're not sure about their agreement with RU-vid in regards to resolution but you are all a little correct. There are a lot of factors that go into producing high-speed imaging. Write speeds, required resolutions, and lighting all factor into the equation. The trick is deciding what you want most and trying to push the limit while still balancing the other factors. ;) Great observations on all the "geeky" things.
I COULD also mention that that was during the time when US industrial output far oustripped Europe (good old days) and was a contributing factor to the end of the British hegemony in the international political system. Imperial system = downfall of British hegemony. But that would take so much explaining if you didn't know what I was talking about, so I won't. But I could. Or you could look it up ;)
Dropping from 80ft, that's roughly a 50mph collision (45mph if the hook is at 80ft rather than the front of the car), albeit against an absolutely stationary surface. If the airbags were working, that _might_ be survivable.
Why do you seemingly refuse to film faster than 2000fps for these videos? It's almost like you're contractually obliged to maintain a certain resolution in these videos and this prevents you from increasing the frame rate. Whatever it is, I would really have liked to see this at higher speeds.
