'Safety' car
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For any motorsports fans out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGumLqAihI
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And for the rest of us, some context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs
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And for the rest of us, some context
If you don't know what the words 'safety' and 'car' mean, then there's nothing that can be done to help you
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I knew what those words mean, but not exactly what a "Safety car" is supposed to do in a car race. Maybe it's just there to run over any terrorists that jump into the track and try to set up a bomb, that would be "safety" too.
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'safety' and 'car'
I've always heard them referred to as "pace cars," but then, most of my exposure to racing has been the occasional Indy on Memorial Day and some sippy hole racing.
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Judging by those videos, they're supposed to just drive into other cars.
Ultimately I guess, the race stops and stationary cars are probably safer than moving cars.
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I always understood it as safety car being used in Europe and pace car in America. That may not be accurate in practice.
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It's consistent with my experience. And if I've learned anything from the climate science, it's that "consistent with" means settled.
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I always understood it as safety car being used in Europe and pace car in America. That may not be accurate in practice.
And then you have series like European Le Mans, which use a pace car for the formation lap, and a safety car during the race (if required).
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And then you have series like European Le Mans, which use a pace car for the formation lap, and a safety car during the race (if required).
That may not be accurate in practice.
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And if you still don't find safety cars funny, you can just listen to safety dance so your thread visit won't have been wasted.
Obligatory:
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance [Literal Video Lyrics] – 02:47
— alessandr8
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This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds
Bullshit it's a parody i.e. fair use.
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Maybe UMG owns the parody.
I don't think fair use works the way you think it works. Weird Al has built a career on copyrighting fair-use parodies. (Although he's a classy guy, so he always asks permission first anyway.)
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I would doubt that UMG owns the parody.
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Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Point is, it can be fair use of one copyrighted work and still hold its own copyright. So YouTube isn't (necessarily) doing anything wrong there.
That said, ContentID is such a fucking piece of broken trash, YouTube is likely doing something wrong there.
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At the Le Mans series events, the prototype cars are so highly strung that the safety car is effectively being driven at flat out race pace for a car of its type just to keep the cars behind it from overheating. As a result, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
Amusing trivia: A few years ago at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, they had a caution period so long that they nearly had to pull the safety car to refuel it.
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So YouTube isn't (necessarily) doing anything wrong there.
That said, ContentID is such a fucking piece of broken trash, YouTube is likely doing something wrong there.
"blakeyrat then goes on to get killed at the next zebra crossing".
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@FrostCat (but actually blakeyrat) said:
So YouTube isn't (necessarily) doing anything wrong there.
That said, ContentID is such a fucking piece of broken trash, YouTube is likely doing something wrong there.YouTube isn't (necessarily) doing anything wrong there [wrt parody copyright].
YouTube is likely doing something wrong there [wrt ContentID].
So, there != there, so there.
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