Is there one camera man that does all of these fake videos, because I can count several videos where the camera movements and effects are exactly the same.

exoxe

@Gizmo:

Holy crap! i just watched the "when bollards attack" thing on youtube. That's horrifying! It's a great idea but not so great in practice. I'll grant you that the first guy was a tool trying to sneak through but the one with the kid in the back seat and the other one where the guy puts his head through the windscreen... Eek. Not so good. Those tire shreders would be way safer.

Oldbrass

LOl

DJJS

Laughed my tuckus off! That was wonderful. Take that Icy Hot Stuntaz!

Oldbrass

@benenglish:

You are right : And the text says something along the lines of "Got a better idea ? We will help you to built it"

Redwraithvienna

It was great, but the camera should have followed the flipping vehicle the ground and the ground should have triggered a massive explosion.

Vagabum

That's absolutely hilarious!

Fox

that was fantastic!

pixelchild

That was awesome!

Razta

Do they make one for Jazzy Scooters???

albokay

I love these cultural days at Gizmodo! New ad campaign: Read Gizmodo, Learn to Speak Foreign Languages!

PynkFloydd

I want one - beside its intended purpose I could also use it to put up the christmas lights on the second floor windows.

Fierock

Awesome. The rendering was spot on. More!

lianna_g

That was full of win.

dead_red_eyes

That was brilliant! My co-workers are wondering what's so damn funny.

Billman13

@omg-ponies: I'm nto sure it matters exactly what the age is because you'll always get some idiots who are desperate to drive, will pass their test as soon as they can and then drive like maniacs.
Make the age 21, it'll still be true. There'll still be people who pass their test then assume they're indestructible.

There's a proposal in the UK that learners could be forced to spend at least a full calendar year learning to drive, or have to have at least a certain number of hours with a certified instructor.
But, from the p.o.v. of a guy in his early twenties who learnt to drive a year or so ago, that strikes me as grossly unfair as it means that even the responsible drivers lose out.

Until someone can develop a test that speeding twunts will automatically fail, there is no perfect solution.

Step666

Those are the same kind of sprigns that were in my old bed. Explains a lot.

musen

@Pope John Peeps II:

But watch out in what way fashion your arms are flayling, otherwise people will mistake you for a Na...*cough

Klappstuhl

On a more serious note, a better method of keeping kids from speeding is to restrict licenses further and look into interlocks.

A series of fatal car accidents involving teenagers in Maryland over the past two weeks raises doubts as to the prudence of letting 16 year-olds drive around in cars packed to the gills with their friends.

At the very least, how about a second look at seatbelt interlocks (with a tie-in to the retractor in addition to the lockplate) to prevent ejection deaths from rollovers.

omg-ponies

I love how they always create an edit spot to make it look like a seamless non-stop recording (note when he grabs the camera and points it at the sky how the color suddenly changes). Still some nice animation.

toyotaboy

@Gizmo: no matter how many times i see it it never gets old!

mwalker05

I'm gonna walk around all day saying "Einfag. Fertig. TOOM." like they were mystic words of power. And wave my arms like I'm casting spells.

Pope John Peeps II

that was freaking awesome!

a little mid Monday humor is always nice

baldingnerd

So where's the directions on making these? Any hacks so you can hook it up to your computer and eject it whenever one of your friends are walking towards your house?

gokor

Should have been an ambulance.

Old people want speed bumps until they need an ambulance.

Then they change their minds. If they survive.

Jason

@Gizmo: Haha, serves those fools right. If they weren't where they shouldn't have been in the first place it wouldn't have happened to them.
They obviously knew the risk as they all tried to speed through the bollards.

BoardStupid

OMG LOL that was awesome

Seiven

OK, so it's actually an ad for toom-baumarkt.de. What is that web site? It sorta looks like what we in the U.S. call a home improvement store, i.e. a place that sells tools and materials for handyman types. Am I right?

benenglish

The real deal - sort of... [www.youtube.com]

Gizmo

Haha... Very Funny. Made my day!

Mayz

Very nice, I would need to figure out at what speed you'd need to hit it and land on the wheels.

WorkingOnYourInvoice

lol
expected something like that, but seeing it just made me laugh like a mad man...

I really hope I won't hit one of these speedbumps.....

Ace

boys... boys... boys...

That was awesome!

junk

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... that was amazing!

cloudnine

That was great...plain & simple.

Mr. Black

:) na ja.

monomyth

@Step666: Which is all the more reason to bring back seatbelt interlocks. The technology exists. Quite simply, the engine shouldn't even start unless every occupied seat has a fastened seatbelt with tension on the retractor. This is doubly true in SUVs which have higher rollover rates than passenger cars.

The biggest determining factor in a rollover accident is ejection. If you leave the passenger compartment, the chances of maiming or death skyrocket. This has been proven time and again over the past four decades.

omg-ponies

@Gizmo: GOLD!! silly brits.

morph3us

@exoxe: the guy who did the vfx for michel gondry's "the science of sleep" (excellent flick btw). he's also the guy behind that famous ufo youtube video that circulated a while back.

morph3us

that was hilarious!

gadgetmom

Wonderful.

I wanna work in that guy's factory!

strider_mt2k

it would have been better if they made the springs more plausable otherwise it was cool. also the only way to stop speeders is with a bullet because bullets are faster than cars usually.

illustriouschin

@yo_jimbo: wow I totally missed that and was thinking what the hell is it about the flowers...

Fierock

I like how the second time I watched it, I knew the lady was holding the camera, so she was more interested in her flowers than the project. :)

yo_jimbo

omp-ponnies. Here in NY you cant get a liscence till 18 and their stil lis speeding related accidents. IF you wanted to stop them totally then you would have to limit people up until 25 to not drive.

majortom1981

5 *s

AndersonBMX

hahahaha thats awesome

MacAddict21

@mferrari: The fact that you want to tell commenters who have a different opinion than you to fuck themselves is strong anecdotal evidence for why you shouldn't be allowed to operate a vehicle EVER.

Tempers should have no place near the 1-2+ ton death reapers we often refer to as cars.

That's MY opinion, and I will be glad to accept the brunt of your rage accordingly, so long as you can't take that rage to a road.

FWIW, I don't care much about the age issue, but I do appreciate the idea of mandatory instruction hours in the neighbourhood of 1+ years of instruction, as someone mentioned about GB (also true for many other European nations, and for flying a plane - which is far less dangerous - pretty much anywhere).

Christan_Eff

@Gizmo: brilliant. Best video I've seen in a long while. Thanks!
@Oldbrass: So if someone has a kid in the back seat that means they can drive like the 1st tool without consequence? Its called paying attention to the road, especially the big red road signs. You get whats coming by tailgating a bus so close anyway. If anything, having your kid in the car should make you MORE careful. However, most of the crazy drivers I see all day are moms too busy talking on the phone to know that their tank just clipped another person on the highway.

The location in question implemented the stops because too many pedestrians were getting hit by idiots like those. Tire strips would just cause the car to swerve into more people. I wish they had these in NYC, would take care of most of the taxis in the first week, lol.

TKWarrior

@yo_jimbo: Yes, I was going to comment on that as well. Very clever, really helps sell it.

spaceman37

I see some comments saying that he driving age should be raised, & as a 14-year-old I really want to tell those commenters to fuck themselves. But, I wont, I'm just gonna tell you people that some people aren't reckless & won't cause road problems, and that would be insanely unfair to them. Think about it, most teens need cars to get to places (work, school, etc.) if you were my age wouldn't you be just a little pissed off that you cant drive & others were able to so now you have to have your work, friends & everything else near your home, cause I want a job so I can go to college & I don't plan on biking to it everyday. So, all I ask is that before you say things like that you should consider the people affected by your plans.

mferrari

@WorkingOnYourInvoice: 88 Miles per hour, of course

auroragb

I need one of those for the "farting clown cars" that speed by here. Sure Boom-Boom the clown needs to get to the baggy clown pants store, but he should buy a muffler and slow down a tad.

Sporko

Simple and to the point. Hahah.. that was great!

-Core-

Now if there was one that could target cops hiding behind building.

ninjatales

Hahahaha, those crazy Germans!

citykids

Brilliant

Herman

Non-survivable.

scarbrtj

@OMG-PONIES: Think of it as "Applied Darwinism"...

It used to be different. When I learned to drive it was in a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 - no air bags, no anti-lock brakes, no power steering, no shoulder belts, bench seats... Nothing to "save the stupid" and therefore you learned pretty quick to not be an idiot.

These days not only is it almost impossible to actually *die* in an accident, which creates lazy drivers, the car is also brimming with a zillion things that take a person's attention off of the thing they should be paying attention to - driving.

I'm really thankful I learned to drive back in the vehicular stone age in that 4 ton monstrosity with it's gawd-awful single-speaker AM radio you didn't fiddle with (or even turn on) and pay phones that you had to get out of the damn car to use. :)

rihahn

I wish I spoke enough German to figure out what he was saying, but that was awesome.

Also, "pocket rockets" in my area tends to refer to small sportsbikes, not cars. Those cars would be "ricers". Your mileage may vary...

ビッグ ボス

@majortom1981: If you bump it up to any age you'll still get accidents. Therefore I don't believe that it's the age, per se, it's the lack of driving practice and flat-out education.

booticon

great.. :) but I would hate to drive into a thing like that.. I the one who made it would not survive if I did.. lol

D_Zarster

VIDEO: Speed bump to end all speed bumps on Autoblog

yes - very funny. I'll be sending over my resume. Any job where you don't report about gadgets (and therefore post anything on-topic) and get to spend all day browsing youtube has got to be the best damn job in the world.

drsmith

Vee have ways of making you talk.

CaliforniaKid