If you haven’t already seen this Honda commercial, it’s a great way to spend two minutes. Click on the cog, then click on the star icon.
then select the desired resolution.
This commercial depicts a Rube Goldberg device made of Honda car parts. It is supposedly 100% Real World, no computer animation. In about the middle, a tire rolls into three other tires that are queued on a ramp. The three tires bump one another up the ramp, until the one at the top rolls off. The initial tire does not seem to have nearly enough speed to be able to transfer the momentum up the ramp. Further, if you watch carefully, you will notice that the second tire hits the top one and rolls backwards slightly, then reverses again continues to roll uphill as the top tire falls. This is clearly not consistent with classical physics.
Yes. There’s probably weights inside the tires, which a) help them balance on the incline without rolling down it and 2) help them roll with greater energy than the initial collision would seem to impart.
I couldn’t find the claim that it was not a computer simulation. I find it hard to believe that this was all done with real objects, especially the tires.
The tires are weighted. It IS real. It took over 600 “takes” to capture everything working right. The film crew had nightmares, cuz it took HOURS to set everything up for a take, and then some one would walk just a little too hard, and it would set off a chain-reaction, and they’d have to set it up all over again!
The tires are weighted. It IS real. It took over 600 “takes” to capture everything working right. The film crew had nightmares, cuz it took HOURS to set everything up for a take, and then some one would walk just a little too hard, and it would set off a chain-reaction, and they’d have to set it up all over again!
The tires are weighted. It IS real. It took over 600 “takes” to capture everything working right, once. The film crew had nightmares, cuz it took HOURS to set everything up for a take, and then some one would walk just a little too hard, and it would set off a chain-reaction, and they’d have to set it up all over again!