This video looks doctored [to favour the potentially liable].It looks to me that it has been edited to have additional black/dark splotches to make the woman’s image seem darker than was actually the case in the original footage.On top of that, I believe that the human eye (such as of the human operator in the vehicle, had he been looking at the road) should have seen more than just the supposed utter blackness to the left.
I don’t have time to spare right now to extract frames from this video and include them here, but if you play it in a video player that lets you move frame by frame, here’s what you can discover and discern:
There is a pair of consecutive frames in the video (just before the collision) where the woman’s dark jacket is not illuminated in the earlier frame, and then illuminated in the immediately following frame.We can also see that the street lighting is orange in colour, whereas the vehicle headlights shine something distinctly lighter in colour than orange.Her head and hair/hat are also lit in orange several frames before this pair of frames.It seems very likely to me that blackness was added up to and including the earlier of the two frames, because the jacket should not just suddenly turn orange, it should become orange at the same time her head turns orange, which is several frames earlier.
Furthermore: Observe the first 2 seconds of the clip.Looking at the left side, you can see how much of the road, curb and even grass/dirt is illuminated by the headlights to the front-left of the vehicle.Estimate how far the headlights seem to be illuminating: the entire width of the adjacent lane, plus the curb, and more.
Now move the clip forward through the next seconds up to the collision.Observe how much that same front-left area of the vehicle is NOT lit anymore as it approaches the black splotches.The headlights should still be illuminating at least the full width of the adjacent lane.But they aren't.
In my opinion, this video was intentionally altered.
(This isn't even considering any LIDAR or radar that others have already mentioned.)
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This video looks doctored [to favour the potentially liable].It looks to me that it has been edited to have additional black/dark splotches to make the woman’s image seem darker than was actually the case in the original footage.On top of that, I believe that the human eye (such as of the human operator in the vehicle, had he been looking at the road) should have seen more than just the supposed utter blackness to the left.
I don’t have time to spare right now to extract frames from this video and include them here, but if you play it in a video player that lets you move frame by frame, here’s what you can discover and discern:
There is a pair of consecutive frames in the video (just before the collision) where the woman’s dark jacket is not illuminated in the earlier frame, and then illuminated in the immediately following frame.We can also see that the street lighting is orange in colour, whereas the vehicle headlights shine something distinctly lighter in colour than orange.Her head and hair/hat are also lit in orange several frames before this pair of frames.It seems very likely to me that blackness was added up to and including the earlier of the two frames, because the jacket should not just suddenly turn orange, it should become orange at the same time her head turns orange, which is several frames earlier.
Furthermore: Observe the first 2 seconds of the clip.Looking at the left side, you can see how much of the road, curb and even grass/dirt is illuminated by the headlights to the front-left of the vehicle.Estimate how far the headlights seem to be illuminating: the entire width of the adjacent lane, plus the curb, and more.
Now move the clip forward through the next seconds up to the collision.Observe how much that same front-left area of the vehicle is NOT lit anymore as it approaches the black splotches.The headlights should still be illuminating at least the full width of the adjacent lane.But they aren't.
In my opinion, this video was intentionally altered.
(This isn't even considering any LIDAR or radar that others have already mentioned.)