# Toyota Commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 20, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-commercial/183272 "2003-06-20T20:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-commercial/183272/1 "2003-06-20T20:34:23Z")
I just saw a commercial for a Toyota Camry that “appears” to have been shoot in LA with completed deserted freeways. I mean there wasn’t another car on the road expect for the bright red camry. It looked very realistic to me. Given that video techical wizards can fake just about anything these days, and that LA freeways are never 100% free of vehicles, is this a total fake out? Would they have used models, blue screens, and other standard techniques? I’m always amazed whenever I see it. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-commercial/183272/2 "2003-06-20T20:48:49Z")
They very well could’ve used a technique similar to [this](http://www.405themovie.com/makingof04.asp). Essentially, taking lots of pictures of the road with cars _on_ it, and assmbling the “empty” pieces of the road surface from _all_ the photographs into a picture of the road surface completely empty. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-commercial/183272/3 "2003-06-20T20:52:14Z")
[See Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=190683) for a discussion. My favorite part is the small print on that ad: “Toyota does not endorse nor condone this type of driving.” Huh? They don’t “endorse” this kind of behavior? Then explain the glorification of it on TV!