Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Acura MDX driving backwards

Acura MDX driving backwards through what looks like a slalom at 40 mph: I've done a lot of driving, even stunt driving, *even* driving backwards, and it's impossible to do this, in reverse ...

Even if you could exhibit the nuance and subtlety of steering needed to course-correct at shallow angles side-to-side, with the amount of precision needed usually when you are driving forward, knowing that the wheels in the rear are now steering ...

... you would still need to *see* where you're going, without straying from the track and carving a path through those cones. Too much is happening in the brain, and the senses, simultaneously, doing this going forward. With reverse, you have ruined - removed - the benefit and all the information-gathering of *sight*, all the visual inforamtion you're taking in, which is totally necessary for this kind of maneuver.

notice how they did all that editing and cutting. Not a continuous shot.

This is totally different from all those stunt shots we see in commercials. This doesn't exist.

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