LA to Oregon at Mach 9

Kallahar writes "Last April I hooked up a video camera to my front bumper and drove from Los Angeles to Oregon. The video is finally done; it's sped up 95x which makes the trip a mere 6 minutes long. To do the recording I hooked up a VCR inside the car and recorded in real time, then captured the entire thing to the hard drive and changed the framerate of the avi. The camera and VCR only cost about $50 total, which makes for a fairly affordable hobby/art project."

Comments

Is There A Point

[tonyr60]

Is this a slow /. news da?. Sorry, but I just don't see how this justifies a story.

Re:He seems a dangerous driver (serious)

[FlyMuts]

The UK is the 52th state of the USA, it's only fault is that it's placed on the euro-asian plate, not on the american ...

Re:He seems a dangerous driver (serious)

[Caeda]

"I spend a lot of my time doing interstate driving. As such, I realize that there are plenty of assholes out there doing 65mph in the passing lane where the speed limit is 70. But drivers who tailgate in the passing lane (or any lane, really) are IMO just as much of a risk for accidents." Wow. That's pretty cool. Cause the 3 states I drive in routinely have this law about "2 miles over." It means that your allowed 2mph leeway from the speedlimit, passing or not. Since interstate is 65mph, I guess that means 65+2=70 by your logic. "Nine times out of ten, the driver in front of you is not going to "get the message" and yield his position." Perhaps that's because 9 times out of 10, the person who is stuck behind another car is some asshole trying to go 85mph+ and weaving through traffic cutting people off, occasionally flipping the middle finger at them when he cant get around fast enough. It's the people who drive like complete morons that piss the rest of us off enough that we don't feel like moving every time someone can't save a little fuel and join the convoy.