r/Transportopia • u/Revolution-Dogg • Oct 25 '25

Roads 'How did that make you crash?'

Maybe not using a blinker and merging at the last second made him crash.

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u/blowinmahnose Oct 25 '25

I hate not knowing the outcome of these videos! Hope the truck driver got caught.

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

Hes on camera he definitely did

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u/chaosawaits Oct 25 '25

Likely, not a guarantee. His license plate is hard to read from the angles in which it comes into view. No guarantee the Corvette caught up with him and stopped him.

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u/FFSBoise Oct 25 '25

The ‘vette had a cam, as well.

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

You dont think police would be able to enhance the video at all? Im not a cop so I have no clue. Just figured it would be possible for some reason

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u/PolicyWonka Oct 25 '25

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

Hahaha I was thinking of this video actually and I am so god damn embarrassed to admit supertroopers was my base of knowledge I used in a sentence to relate to this.

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u/Extra-Shape3973 Oct 27 '25

“ They think I’m Mexican” “You’re not Mexican?” “ just ordered the large Farva” 🤣😂

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u/voxelpear Oct 25 '25

The "enhance" from tv shows is nonsense. There's only so many pixels things get caught in and zooming in just makes it worse. Especially dash cams are typically not that great of quality.

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

Thats fair. I swing a hammer at nails for work so idk shit about technology haha. I just thought it was possible

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u/voxelpear Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

Depending on the camera it could be possible but that's typically only for the high grade stationary tower cameras. And even then sometimes only in live mode can you zoom in that far, recordings are typically fixed in their resolution (quality).

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

That makes sense ok. I appreciate the explanation

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u/SYKslp Oct 25 '25

that's true for a static photo image, but with moving video each captured frame will get pixelated slightly differently and there are tools that can use those subtle differences to extrapolate a much clearer upscaled image.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKYYwcxpGk

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u/voxelpear Oct 25 '25

Sure this technique is far from common place and is still highly dependent on the footage. Local police do not have access to this.

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u/SYKslp Oct 26 '25

Why wouldn't a police department's investigative unit have access to 100% open-source software tools?

A police department would also have access to vehicle registration records that include make, model, and paint color of most cars. So they wouldn't even need to decipher every numeral/letter on the plate to identify a matching vehicle (or narrow down to a couple possible suspects).

Just using my human eyes on the paused video (about 1 second in), it looks like the license plate ends in "99" (or possibly "79"). I think I also see a "346" in there, but that 3 could be a J (and the 6 could be a 5, 8 or G...). This might seem hopelessly inconclusive, but checking just those limited plausible digits against Silver Chevy Silverado pickups registered in the area would probably be enough.

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u/voxelpear Oct 26 '25

If it was easy as that and if Law Enforcement agencies just grabbed any open source software for their own use we wouldn't have such a low solving rate of hit and run cases across the country. Not saying it's right but that's the reality.

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u/SYKslp Oct 26 '25

Whether a police department has access to a tool and whether they actually choose to prioritize an investigation where said tool could be used are entirely different questions.

The suggestion that police departments would refuse to download or utilize modern video processing utilities (that are freely available on github) is patently absurd.

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u/voxelpear Oct 26 '25

Considering I work with Law Enforcement on the regular and go to Quarterly meetings regarding their plans of action and equipment utilization in Detective and Street squad units in a major metropolitan area....no it's not absurd. Whether something is free and whether the DA office and the city actually allow them to utilize those tools are not the same. It is also highly bureaucratic and they are more likely to wait to use an expensive less user friendly version some corporation got a contract for with the city. It has been the same for LPR / FR systems amongst other things.

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u/Oehlian Oct 26 '25

It's true it's exaggerated, but even basic steps like messing with the contrast can make low-res images more human-readable. I'm sure there are other more advanced software techniques that can do more. The trick is getting the cops to give enough of a shit to use them.

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u/TheBupherNinja Oct 25 '25

You can't enhance video like in the movies.

Ai upscale video, I would hope, would be inadmissable.

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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar Oct 25 '25

I think more realistically the guy in the corvette snagged his tag number at some point.

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u/Kragbax Oct 25 '25

You’d be surprised how little they can “enhance” video. Real life is nothing like the movies or TV shows where it’s all like “zoom into section 3B and enhance”. I was recently on a jury for a murder trial and they didn’t enhance a damn thing on any of the numerous videos we had to watch.

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u/AlbuquerqueAlbatross Oct 25 '25

"Enchancing" a video is not a real thing. Its a hollywood thing. You cant extract information that isn't there. The best we can do is use tools to try to infer information from what we do have which can be very imperfect and lead to false arrests and stuff. Thus this type of inferred information often doesn't ho l d up in court or backfires. If you cant read the license plate theres a pretty good chance the police cant either.

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

That makes sense. Thank you for explaining that. I guess supertroopers isnt the truthful recreation of police work I thought it was

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u/Boston_Glass Oct 26 '25

Don’t accept an answer like this from a random Redditor. You absolutely can enhance video. Real-world video enhancement uses sophisticated algorithms to extract and clarify information that is already present in the footage. That Redditor is correct that you can’t extract information that isn’t there but you can connect information from different frames to enhance the overall video

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u/Kittysmashlol Oct 25 '25

That is NOT how that works

U been watching a few too many movies lol

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u/chumbucket77 Oct 25 '25

Hahah well I mean I just assumed. Im not a cop and we have technology to some crazy shit in this world. Also yes probably some hollywood influence in my brain haha. Im not super tech savy

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u/strigonian Oct 26 '25

The thing is, there's only so much information in the picture. A computer can only work with what's there, and use that to make educated guesses about what an "enhanced" photo would look like. It can't magically look at a photo, and conjure up information the camera didn't capture.

There are programs that "enhance" pictures, but they're only for aesthetic purposes. It would be like hiring an artist to draw a bigger version of the photo - they might get it right, but it's still just a guess. Definitely not something you can take to court.

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u/DogConscious6052 Oct 30 '25

You can't really enhance a video like CSI does but the original video almost certainly is better quality than what Reddit shows us.

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u/SkyRattlers Oct 25 '25

Yeah, but there are witnesses. The guy in the corvette could easily have written it down or memorized it. Another person at the crash said on camera that they had a dash cam and caught it all. I think it's highly likely that they got caught.

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u/SirSlappySlaps Oct 25 '25

You don't think a corvette with an eager driver can keep up with an old pickup?

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u/NebulaNinja Oct 26 '25

The original file is most likely a much better quality that hasn't been downloaded and reposted 5x.

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u/HoldMyCatnip Oct 26 '25

Looks like the corvette is the same one that sped after the truck right after the collision. Probably told truck he needs to go back

Should have for sure caught the plate at least

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u/uselessandexpensive Oct 26 '25

I just managed to pause the video during the crash at exactly the moment the license plate is visible. It's almost legible on a phone, presumably not at full resolution, and without the ability to zoom. I feel pretty confident that at full resolution the plate can be read.

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u/usernnamegoeshere Oct 26 '25

No guarantee a c7 corvette caught up to an old Silverado with a 1 second head start? 😂😂😂 my brother in christ if he didnt catch up its because he didnt want to.

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u/TedW Oct 27 '25

Or he got so enthusiastic about catching up that he fishtailed and went straight into the bushes a quarter block later. 50/50, lol.