Comments on: Videos on bus capture disaster when driver falls asleep http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-713987 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-713987 Put me in the column that does not mind the horrific accident posts: ours can be a dangerous world, too much obfuscation and candy-coating does us a disservice. . .'Let's be careful out there. . .' Put me in the column that does not mind the horrific accident posts: ours can be a dangerous world, too much obfuscation and candy-coating does us a disservice. . .’Let’s be careful out there. . .’

]]> By: Whiskey Spider http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714500 Whiskey Spider Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714500 I agree with your view of the video. There is a lot that can be taken from it: the strange and intriguing camera angles; an example of need for better safety regulation for truck/bus drivers; speculation of how emerging technology might one day make these kinds of crashes a thing of the past. However, the poster did none of that. And the total lack of context turned it into merely gawking at a horrific, fatal car accident. I agree with your view of the video. There is a lot that can be taken from it: the strange and intriguing camera angles; an example of need for better safety regulation for truck/bus drivers; speculation of how emerging technology might one day make these kinds of crashes a thing of the past.

However, the poster did none of that. And the total lack of context turned it into merely gawking at a horrific, fatal car accident.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714245 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714245 Anonymous here, reminding you to check your mirrors every 15 seconds. Anonymous here, reminding you to check your mirrors every 15 seconds.

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-713990 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-713990 Totally: the physics simulator on this video is incredible! Totally: the physics simulator on this video is incredible!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-713993 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-713993 The animations does not match the crash. Near the end of the animation the bus rearends a car which flips over infront of the bus. This does not happen in the video. The animations does not match the crash. Near the end of the animation the bus rearends a car which flips over infront of the bus. This does not happen in the video.

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714505 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714505 <i>I hope no one was seriously injured in this nightmarish highway accident.</i> You'd think that one line would be enough to keep everybody from projecting the lowest common denominator of the internet onto Mark. I hope no one was seriously injured in this nightmarish highway accident.

You’d think that one line would be enough to keep everybody from projecting the lowest common denominator of the internet onto Mark.

]]> By: Itsumishi http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714250 Itsumishi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714250 <blockquote>I think people would also appreciate a warning if they are about to watch something in which people die</blockquote> Mark didn't know whether people died or if there was any serious injuries. This was pretty damn blatant with the <strong>"I hope no one was seriously injured"</strong> part of his statement. Also if <strong>nightmarish highway accident</strong> isn't an indicator that someone might have died then what is?

I think people would also appreciate a warning if they are about to watch something in which people die

Mark didn’t know whether people died or if there was any serious injuries. This was pretty damn blatant with the “I hope no one was seriously injured” part of his statement.

Also if nightmarish highway accident isn’t an indicator that someone might have died then what is?

]]> By: deckard68 http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714251 deckard68 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714251 "The animations does not match...in the animation the bus rearends a car which flips over infront of the bus. This does not happen in the video." Yes it does, you have to watch the side camera to see that happen. You can almost imagine the moment when the driver's neck snapped! BoingBoing: Faces of Death! “The animations does not match…in the animation the bus rearends a car which flips over infront of the bus. This does not happen in the video.”

Yes it does, you have to watch the side camera to see that happen. You can almost imagine the moment when the driver’s neck snapped!

BoingBoing: Faces of Death!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-713996 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-713996 Impressive alertness/driving on the part of the black minivan that speed away in the emergency lane at the end of the video. Impressive alertness/driving on the part of the black minivan that speed away in the emergency lane at the end of the video.

]]> By: Michael Smith http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714252 Michael Smith Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714252 If my car is in gear but has no control input it will creep forward on the torque converter. I think this is wrong. Instead I think a power vehicle with no input from the driver should gently apply brakes and come to a stop. Drivers do fall to sleep, die and have seizures from time to time. This is of interest to me because I have been prone to seizures lately. If my car is in gear but has no control input it will creep forward on the torque converter. I think this is wrong. Instead I think a power vehicle with no input from the driver should gently apply brakes and come to a stop. Drivers do fall to sleep, die and have seizures from time to time. This is of interest to me because I have been prone to seizures lately.

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714001 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714001 They're fascinating. If you're not fascinated by them, in amongst your apparent disdain for the posting of them, then I don't know what to say! They’re fascinating. If you’re not fascinated by them, in amongst your apparent disdain for the posting of them, then I don’t know what to say!

]]> By: davechua http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714259 davechua Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714259 Lets face it; it's an exceptional piece of crashporn that you could not stop watching and rewatching. Lets face it; it’s an exceptional piece of crashporn that you could not stop watching and rewatching.

]]> By: Tzctlp http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714261 Tzctlp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714261 "We all die some day." That does not mean we need to make it a voyeuristic show, does it? “We all die some day.”

That does not mean we need to make it a voyeuristic show, does it?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714006 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714006 Une petite morte, indeed. Une petite morte, indeed.

]]> By: Tzctlp http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714264 Tzctlp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714264 I was going to bang about the "wonderful things" motto that used to grace the website. After the editors were called to task for their fixation with some fankly horrific themes they have changed the website motto to "Boing Boing: Media culture brainwash for now people" which is a cop out the size of the Golden Gate Bridge, but at least is more honest: the site is about whatever they want, and so one can't complaint about the topicality of a posting really. Still one has to wonder what compels people to post this as something worth sharing with others (I saw it, I wont share it, the horribleness bucket stops with me). I was going to bang about the “wonderful things” motto that used to grace the website.

After the editors were called to task for their fixation with some fankly horrific themes they have changed the website motto to “Boing Boing: Media culture brainwash for now people” which is a cop out the size of the Golden Gate Bridge, but at least is more honest: the site is about whatever they want, and so one can’t complaint about the topicality of a posting really.

Still one has to wonder what compels people to post this as something worth sharing with others (I saw it, I wont share it, the horribleness bucket stops with me).

]]> By: smgrady http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714011 smgrady Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714011 they should be paid like bus drivers in my city... http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt_and_politics/article_24af32d4-13f4-11df-86b2-001cc4c002e0.html they should be paid like bus drivers in my city…
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt_and_politics/article_24af32d4-13f4-11df-86b2-001cc4c002e0.html

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714782 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714782 Well, to be fair, captions like <strong>I hope no one [notices my gleefully demonic hopes that a cuddly pack of newborn puppies] was seriously injured in this nightmarish[ly cool and spectacularly fun YEAH] highway accident</strong> are incredibly inflammatory. I think I speak for many in condemning what's possibly the meanest think I've ever read, or ever will read. Absolutely horrifying, shocking, etc., for shame! Well, to be fair, captions like I hope no one [notices my gleefully demonic hopes that a cuddly pack of newborn puppies] was seriously injured in this nightmarish[ly cool and spectacularly fun YEAH] highway accident are incredibly inflammatory. I think I speak for many in condemning what’s possibly the meanest think I’ve ever read, or ever will read. Absolutely horrifying, shocking, etc., for shame!

]]> By: xaxa http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714274 xaxa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714274 In London on Sunday at about 3:30 the bus directly in front of the one I was on hit a pedestrian. I didn't realise what had happened, and got off at my usual stop (to change). There was an unconscious man, a lot of blood, a screaming girlfriend, a bystander talking to the ambulance despatcher, a shocked bus driver and about six people standing around feeling helpless. The man's girlfriend was either American or Canadian. Perhaps he was too, in which case I suspect he stepped out into the road while looking the wrong way. It's a shame he didn't use either of the two very close by pedestrian crossings (<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.508332,-0.13904&spn=0,359.995177&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.508286,-0.139336&panoid=X9_cmrwy8LhhTXYeABmS3A&cbp=12,188.88,,0,3.5">StreetView</a>). I wonder whether he survived. In London on Sunday at about 3:30 the bus directly in front of the one I was on hit a pedestrian. I didn’t realise what had happened, and got off at my usual stop (to change). There was an unconscious man, a lot of blood, a screaming girlfriend, a bystander talking to the ambulance despatcher, a shocked bus driver and about six people standing around feeling helpless.

The man’s girlfriend was either American or Canadian. Perhaps he was too, in which case I suspect he stepped out into the road while looking the wrong way. It’s a shame he didn’t use either of the two very close by pedestrian crossings (StreetView).

I wonder whether he survived.

]]> By: thequickbrownfox http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714021 thequickbrownfox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714021 Sandra Bullock driving? Sandra Bullock driving?

]]> By: coaxial http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714024 coaxial Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714024 If you don't like it, make your own blog. If you don’t like it, make your own blog.

]]> By: adamnvillani http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714031 adamnvillani Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714031 <i>If you don't like it, make your own blog.</i> Are we not allowed to criticize Boing Boing? I too find it kind of tasteless to say "Whoa, check out this awesome crash" to a video of people dying. If you don’t like it, make your own blog.

Are we not allowed to criticize Boing Boing? I too find it kind of tasteless to say “Whoa, check out this awesome crash” to a video of people dying.

]]> By: holtt http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714034 holtt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714034 It's called "customer feedback" and it's an important part of any service. And one that should be at least listened to. Doesn't mean something has to happen, but at least listen to it. And I agree with him by the way. Oh and I hope to hell that never happens to me when I'm driving my Midget. It's bad enough in that tiny little car around all these Texas H2's and pickups. Imagine a bus doing that. ASCII representation --> _________ It’s called “customer feedback” and it’s an important part of any service. And one that should be at least listened to. Doesn’t mean something has to happen, but at least listen to it. And I agree with him by the way.

Oh and I hope to hell that never happens to me when I’m driving my Midget. It’s bad enough in that tiny little car around all these Texas H2′s and pickups. Imagine a bus doing that. ASCII representation –> _________

]]> By: Itsumishi http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714035 Itsumishi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714035 I don't think that is what is said at all. It's a fascinating video, horrific yes, but fascinating. I don’t think that is what is said at all. It’s a fascinating video, horrific yes, but fascinating.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714551 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714551 the video was posted and we all (most, anyway) watched it. it's difficult to couple a video like this with a caption that justifies its inclusion; mark's was basically the safest possible one. no one can complain if he says he hopes nobody was injured, but with "nightmarish," he acknowledges that it's pretty likely that someone was. an at-once personal and distanced caption like that is akin to "just look at it," which isn't really a bad thing because you just don't often see a large-scale car accident as it happens. it's just a little more morbid than the crash videos i've seen here recently is all. the video was posted and we all (most, anyway) watched it. it’s difficult to couple a video like this with a caption that justifies its inclusion; mark’s was basically the safest possible one. no one can complain if he says he hopes nobody was injured, but with “nightmarish,” he acknowledges that it’s pretty likely that someone was. an at-once personal and distanced caption like that is akin to “just look at it,” which isn’t really a bad thing because you just don’t often see a large-scale car accident as it happens. it’s just a little more morbid than the crash videos i’ve seen here recently is all.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714041 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714041 at least he wasn't texting while driving at least he wasn’t texting while driving

]]> By: SamSam http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714045 SamSam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714045 Um, thanks for handing me the canned response that goes to every "waaah this isn't a wonderful thing"-comment. But I've been happily following this blog for many years and said that I <i>wasn't</i> making that comment. Rather I was actually asking Mark what it was that he found so fascinating about these that makes BB keep posting them, since I was wondering if I was missing something. Personally, I see not a lot of difference between this and videos of the Georgian luger dying, since it's quite likely that people died during this as well, but I don't need others to agree with me. Um, thanks for handing me the canned response that goes to every “waaah this isn’t a wonderful thing”-comment. But I’ve been happily following this blog for many years and said that I wasn’t making that comment. Rather I was actually asking Mark what it was that he found so fascinating about these that makes BB keep posting them, since I was wondering if I was missing something.

Personally, I see not a lot of difference between this and videos of the Georgian luger dying, since it’s quite likely that people died during this as well, but I don’t need others to agree with me.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714052 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714052 FYI, in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin in this recording), the character "clap" basically means to "hit", which should have been in this context to "shoot" with a camera. FYI, in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin in this recording), the character “clap” basically means to “hit”, which should have been in this context to “shoot” with a camera.

]]> By: The Chemist http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714055 The Chemist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714055 And this is why we have concrete dividers. Wonderful things if I ever saw 'em. And this is why we have concrete dividers. Wonderful things if I ever saw ‘em.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714061 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714061 I thought truck drivers made a pretty decent wage. compared to other less-than-glamorous jobs, of course. I thought truck drivers made a pretty decent wage. compared to other less-than-glamorous jobs, of course.

]]> By: agreenster http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/videos-on-truck-capt.html#comment-714062 agreenster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-714062 At 1:10 I think thats a body part flying across the screen... Pretty disturbing.... At 1:10

I think thats a body part flying across the screen…

Pretty disturbing….

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