From your link:California Highway Patrol still saying they believe the video is real, but this is the first MSM article I’ve seen where the veracity of the video is debated.
San Mateo County cliff crash video mystery: Real or deepfake?
MOO.
JMOIs that a popular spot for suicides?
From your link:
A few days later, a couple that was driving in the white vehicle ahead of the man contacted CHP to confirm that they, too, had seen the car careen into the water below, Diaz said.
There’s a more traditional visual effect known as rotoscoping that also could have been used to fake such a video. It would have required someone superimposing a second clip of the dark green Lexus SUV launching out of the frame into the video CHP received from the witness. But because video metadata includes timestamps, experts say that’s also unlikely because such painstaking frame-by-frame editing takes hours and could not have been completed between 10:38 a.m. and 11 a.m.
JMO
I have no clue about suicides, but the Pacific Coast Highway does have alot of deadly accidents. It's a beautiful drive but it feels like you are driving on a winding cliff. I was driving with a friend out there years ago and minutes behind us a celebrity plastic surgeon plowed off the side and was killed. It was believed texting/ tweeting was involved.
Here's info about the dangers:
Pacific Coast Highway Captures Attention for its Scenery and its Crashes ‹ Pepperdine Graphic
From your link:
A few days later, a couple that was driving in the white vehicle ahead of the man contacted CHP to confirm that they, too, had seen the car careen into the water below, Diaz said.
There’s a more traditional visual effect known as rotoscoping that also could have been used to fake such a video. It would have required someone superimposing a second clip of the dark green Lexus SUV launching out of the frame into the video CHP received from the witness. But because video metadata includes timestamps, experts say that’s also unlikely because such painstaking frame-by-frame editing takes hours and could not have been completed between 10:38 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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“Hahn said driving on PCH was safer during her student years, and that current efforts to make PCH safer do not focus as much on prevention.”
“We didn’t have the cameras at the intersections, and now the only way they can use those is after the fact, after there’s been a smash up and a death,” Hahn said. “Then, they go back to the cameras and they look for the cars that were involved.”
Was the Green Lexus seen in the cameras at the intersections?
California Highway Patrol still saying they believe the video is real, but this is the first MSM article I’ve seen where the veracity of the video is debated.
San Mateo County cliff crash video mystery: Real or deepfake?
MOO.
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wait they saw a car go off a cliff and just kept driving???
Yes, it seems virtually impossible that it was anything other than authentic. I just thought it was interesting there is a MSM article that actually addresses the real/fake question. The conclusion CHP comes to is that it is real.
MOO.
I hope LE can at least find the vehicle to identify the driver and any occupants. From what little clarity there is, I do think there was a passenger. So maybe murder/suicide?
Drivers on Highway 1 are often scared. Really scared. As in, afraid to pull off at all, for fear they too will lose control and go plunging. Leads to many interesting situations (and very few U-turns). That particular parking lot was large, but in the moment, I definitely see how people might have missed hitting brakes and pulling off at an unplanned place (many people won't pull off at all, once they see what it's like).
Locals would definitely have tried to pull over, I'd think (unless under time pressure? I would hope I'd stop no matter what). As seen in the video, it is not always safe for a distracted or harried driver to pull out. SUV's don't have to worry as much about the difference in height between pavement and dirt lot, but everyone else does. There's often no cell service, to make it even worse.
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I don't understand the bolded part?
I have driven that exact road many times. Believe me, the very last thing you'd do is put on your brakes.Even the person that turned in the video seemed to keep driving without even slowing down much which is what struck me the most about the video driver. I suppose it took the driver a minute or two to digest what just happened but I would have thought he would have at least hit his own brakes the moment he saw the car crossing in front of his vehicle.
Its like he didnt even react to the car going off the cliff.
Having a 2nd witness pretty much confirms it was a real video I suppose. Unless the 2nd witness was the Video Driver's friend and was trying to cover for him as the heat began to turn up?
I guess the fact the 2nd witness didnt even stop or come forward till days later and the fact the original driver with video didnt even react much or slow down after he first saw the car cross his path just shows another example where the general public doesnt always immediately react to things.
The driver that took the video didnt look like he was going all that fast and there looked to be plenty of time and room to immediately pull over to the right in that same large parking area that the other car plunged off of.
That driver kept on going and didnt even hit his own brakes from what I saw and heard IMO. I think I read where he eventually stopped. So it may have taken that driver a minute or so to react properly.
The case is so strange and I agree with one of the articles that said it appeared the Vehicle sped up before going off the cliff. If you notice that car hit like a small dirt ramp before going off the cliff. I have to wonder if that driver knew that little ramp was there and if so, then it appears a purposeful suicide. Especially if he sped up before going off cliff.
I hope LE can at least find the vehicle to identify the driver and any occupants. From what little clarity there is, I do think there was a passenger. So maybe murder/suicide?
Drivers on Highway 1 are often scared. Really scared. As in, afraid to pull off at all, for fear they too will lose control and go plunging. Leads to many interesting situations (and very few U-turns). That particular parking lot was large, but in the moment, I definitely see how people might have missed hitting brakes and pulling off at an unplanned place (many people won't pull off at all, once they see what it's like).
Locals would definitely have tried to pull over, I'd think (unless under time pressure? I would hope I'd stop no matter what). As seen in the video, it is not always safe for a distracted or harried driver to pull out. SUV's don't have to worry as much about the difference in height between pavement and dirt lot, but everyone else does. There's often no cell service, to make it even worse.