Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????
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If they're wealthy enough to tool about in supercars, they should put their hands in their pockets to performance test them off road. The public roads aren't there for vloggers to use as a commercial tool of the trade when it comes to hammering supercars and creating content.
Some poor sod will end up with a mouthful of McLaren one day, all for the sake of a vlogger getting a few Youtube dollars from pubescent kids.
Some poor sod will end up with a mouthful of McLaren one day, all for the sake of a vlogger getting a few Youtube dollars from pubescent kids.
Yeh the last RS video was a rustler. Got some backing noise from a less glamorous location another day, with me giving it some beans, but wanted to do the talking and POV bits in a nice quiet location. Did some trickery then blurred the speedo to rustle some jimmies. Think I nailed it 
I work full time still, Youtube (TGE TV) is a weekend and sometimes a weekday evening thing for me, so sometimes videos have to be messed around with a tad. If 100,000 of you want to subscribe, I may look to do it on less of a hobby basis haha.
I work full time still, Youtube (TGE TV) is a weekend and sometimes a weekday evening thing for me, so sometimes videos have to be messed around with a tad. If 100,000 of you want to subscribe, I may look to do it on less of a hobby basis haha.
jon- said:
I thought TGE was pushing it in a recent video - he was having a spirited drive through central london in the F12, and on the internal shots where the speed limit was being broken AND you could see the speedo, he'd just blurred out the speed. It seemed a bit brazen!
Edit, it's the RS video - https://youtu.be/ZI-_ptRBMUg?t=5m8s such a sick car, I'm just worried about someone high profile being made an example of soon.
Edit, it's the RS video - https://youtu.be/ZI-_ptRBMUg?t=5m8s such a sick car, I'm just worried about someone high profile being made an example of soon.
Edited by jon- on Tuesday 9th May 10:57[/footnote]
[footnote]Edited by ThatnameagainitsTGE on Wednesday 10th May 10:37Slightly off topic, but on the theme of video'd automotive silliness - I think Instagram is more of a hotbed of totally illegal driving than Youtube, with some frankly ridiculous scenes, with numberplates and locations all visible. As yet no idea of anyone prosecuted from it.
Anyway, I digress.
Anyway, I digress.
SirSamuelBuca said:
I keep thinking only a matter of time till one them bins it big time or causes an accident
I watched the Baron video last night and my first thought was that he wasn't far off having an accident at times - lots of chopping at the steering wheel and heavy acceleration and braking on bumpy roads.I'm sure there will be some tech where it can work out the speed of the car just by video. It's not exactly difficult if you can measure two set points. I wonder which country is going to start handing out fines on uploaded videos. I know there has been a few in japan ages ago. But now with HD and so many dash cams... Gumball?
The speed/ law thing is something I've worried about on my own Number27 You tube channel. I try not to do anything too silly but don't see the point of just sedately pooling around.
Problem is also that being a tiny channel and generating next to no revenue I can't really justify a few hundred pounds on a track day or a few thousand to rent a whole track! I'd love to find somewhere not on public roads to push cars properly but in these days of noise limits and private injury lawyers either you shell out for a very expensive track day or you drive on public roads. North Weild airfield used to allow shakedown testing but not any longer. Anywhere 've contacted has very tight rules on the type of driving allowed so unless you book track time you'd be driving pretty normally anyway. Still, Harris got away with it for years.. plenty of road slides and blatant speeding.
Problem is also that being a tiny channel and generating next to no revenue I can't really justify a few hundred pounds on a track day or a few thousand to rent a whole track! I'd love to find somewhere not on public roads to push cars properly but in these days of noise limits and private injury lawyers either you shell out for a very expensive track day or you drive on public roads. North Weild airfield used to allow shakedown testing but not any longer. Anywhere 've contacted has very tight rules on the type of driving allowed so unless you book track time you'd be driving pretty normally anyway. Still, Harris got away with it for years.. plenty of road slides and blatant speeding.
AyBee said:
SirSamuelBuca said:
I keep thinking only a matter of time till one them bins it big time or causes an accident
I watched the Baron video last night and my first thought was that he wasn't far off having an accident at times - lots of chopping at the steering wheel and heavy acceleration and braking on bumpy roads.Ollywood said:
I'm sure there will be some tech where it can work out the speed of the car just by video. It's not exactly difficult if you can measure two set points. I wonder which country is going to start handing out fines on uploaded videos. I know there has been a few in japan ages ago. But now with HD and so many dash cams... Gumball?
Its already been done here in the uk a number of times. Speed worked out by measuring speed between fixed points. If I remember correctly there was an Audi or vectra driver prosecuted off a video posted where the police worked out his speed by calculating his speed through a section of carriageway with street lights.They were able to positively identify the road and direction by the road signs.
jackpe said:
The speed/ law thing is something I've worried about on my own Number27 You tube channel. I try not to do anything too silly but don't see the point of just sedately pooling around.
The local paper will love it if they get to portray you as 'Youtube star in supercar' jailed for serious injury by dangerous driving, though.VGTICE said:
It's in his video, in the 2nd half.
ok I've seen it now. He deserves a couple of speeding tickets but that's about it. I mean why would you buy a car like that unless you want to drive it hard on back roads? Plus they are in Italy (where supercars are big exporting business) so I doubt that there is a problem as long as one shows a bit of common sense (that is watch out for traffic and other cars).CityS said:
ok I've seen it now. He deserves a couple of speeding tickets but that's about it. I mean why would you buy a car like that unless you want to drive it hard on back roads? Plus they are in Italy (where supercars are big exporting business) so I doubt that there is a problem as long as one shows a bit of common sense (that is watch out for traffic and other cars).
I think it's the fact if a vlogger / journalist films themselves speeding and then puts it online they have incriminated themselves. It's just stupid. I'm pretty sure many, many motoring journalists exceed the speed limit in many of the cars they drive, but you won't see a photo of them doing 110mph in a 60mph zone in one of the mags. Common sense. camshafted said:
you won't see a photo of them doing 110mph in a 60mph zone in one of the mags. Common sense.
Because unless the photo is of the speedo it's very difficult to portray any meaningful sense of speed in a photograph.However, magazines are full of the "obligatory oversteer shot" and I don't think any journalists have been reprimanded because of that?
jayemm89 said:
camshafted said:
you won't see a photo of them doing 110mph in a 60mph zone in one of the mags. Common sense.
Because unless the photo is of the speedo it's very difficult to portray any meaningful sense of speed in a photograph.However, magazines are full of the "obligatory oversteer shot" and I don't think any journalists have been reprimanded because of that?
give it time
SirSamuelBuca said:
I keep thinking only a matter of time till one them bins it big time or causes an accident
It'll be extra entertainment when it happens, but until then, car enthusiasts taking the moral high ground about Tubers and their speed? Because no one on here ever breaks any speed limits do they? Get a real problem people, or watch something else. Or do you WANT the authorities to stick their beaks in and ban this kind of material?
Lately I've seen some IG stories with people driving at 270 km/h on public highways with speed cameras etc. Not in Italy but I doubt the police there would care. UK could be different though but every country is different. For example in Canada I am sure you are going straight to prison if you post a video driving like that on a major highway.
SuperchargedVR6 said:
car enthusiasts taking the moral high ground about Tubers and their speed? Because no one on here ever breaks any speed limits do they?
Well, we usually don't film ourselves doing it and put it out in public.SuperchargedVR6 said:
Get a real problem people, or watch something else. Or do you WANT the authorities to stick their beaks in and ban this kind of material?
No, we don't want the authorities sticking their noses in, so generally would rather there not be stuff floating around out there that will encourage them to do so.Heads up for Lana fans: makes an appearance 8 mins into todays vlog: https://youtu.be/Asphu9VhHEE?t=487
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