AcceleRacers: Why The Drones Miserably Failed (Video Essay)

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[@duyducluu6821]

In my opinion, if Gelorum let RD-L1 do what he has to do instead of threatening him when he fails, the Drones could be much more effective, as well as we’ll be able to see more interesting fights.

[@KodyCrimson]

I would say it's also because of the unpredictable human element. The Drones would race really well whenever the humans weren't involved, because the realms have a level of predictability, whether that be due to machines in the realms or instinct from the creatures. But humans, having free thinking, can be unpredictable. Only Gelorum and Kadeem would have ways to counter the humans via their commands/plans.

[@user-ri4zr3be9y]

Can we get something acknowledging that by the time of the Ultimate Race, the Silencerz had basically beat both factions? Both of their headquarters had been throughly infiltrated. So much so that they were confident enough to launch two simultaneous heists to steal both the Wheel of Power and the Tezla's Accelechargers. Heck, the Drones basically FEARED them at that point. Just look at RD-L1's expression in the Cosmic Realm when the Silencerz show up and knock out his RD-06 escorts. I sure interpreted it as pure dread. No matter who won the Ultimate Race, they'd be there to reap the spoils. Another thing, does it seem that by the end, the Drones were simply running out of resources? I know the common narrative is to see them as an endless army, but that doesn't line up to how they behaved in the series. If there were really so many drones, they would have flooded the realms. But no they send their forces piecemeal, at most they seem to send a dozen or two at a time. As if they were already an expended army trying to conserve their forces. Could also explain why they changed tactics and invested so much of what they had left into about ~15-20 sweepers. The human racers must have been wrecking their racers too much, too fast, and gambled the last of their industrial capacity in the hope that the sweepers would provide enough of an edge/distraction for their remaining cars to eek out victories. That gamble fell through and precious sweepers were being taken out just as badly. By the time of the Cosmic Realm, the Drones were on their last legs and avoiding confrontation altogether. We even see that they're using older RD-06/7s there not being enough RD-02s. The raid on the Acceledrome must have been a final act of desperation to end the "war" before the Drones collapse as a viable faction entirely.

[@HafidzanHusna]

And Silencerz took the "wisdom circle" from Vert. I don't know how Gig programming the destination of the wheel. If Gig not reprogram the wheel, Vert should going back to Sphere, not Silencerz HQ. As we know, the wheel is the portal from real world to interdimensional world. Not a portal from real world to the real world. But yeah, Silencerz still had strategy untill the last second to fulfill their target. And that's amazing.

[@SuperSaiyan3985]

Facts, the Silencerz came in and basically stole the show. Too OP 😂

[@user-ri4zr3be9y]

@@HafidzanHusna I don't think he reprogrammed it. I think that maybe the Silencerz's Wheel might have been the only available destination, since the realms were now closed by the Ultimate Race. Or it may have had something to do with the Silencerz by now having the actual Wheel of Power. Maybe the Drone Tech was different, because they actually had the Wheel of Power, their holographic wheel was simply a projection, rather than a Computer-Generated recreation based on Tezla's limited research. Maybe this projection tech failed when the Wheel was stolen by the Silencerz. Like how old Film projectors actually need reels of film to project movies onto a larger screen. Leaving the Silencerz with the only open portal when the the one in the Acceledrome was destroyed. Whichever explanation holds, I don't think it was an intentional, conscious decision on anyone's part. It just sort of happened by coincidence.

[@ShockInazuma]

And considering they were involved in more than just the main realms (the minisodes), this is doubly true.

[@RedSet_Diancie]

Its like a war in real life, when the powerful force is really confronted, the overtrust can cause devastating damages

[@MSARCTICEDGE]

While they are as puny as most henchmen in Disney, they succeeded on the realms tho. But still, they can be outsmarted by a silencer or as very invincible, an teku or metal maniac

[@aaronhill8315]

Nitpicking a little bit you forgot to add the fish devouring the drone car in the water realm

[@kamonek3825]

Racing drones: (enter any realm) Accelerons and realms:and I took that personally

[@nortonthedestroyer]

The idea that the realms are specifically picking on the Drones is really interesting. I wouldn´t say that creatures and hazzards are only lethal to them, there are plenty of close calls where they go against the humans too, but they seem to be more agressive towards the Drones. And it makes sence since they are essentially blacklisted from there by the creators of the place.

[@artistanthony1007]

The Realms are clearly not made for machines, that's what the Accelerons said in Ruins 3.3.

[@SuperSaiyan3985]

sense*

[@koakdagger]

The problem with perfection is that it can actually be the largest imperfection a robot or a person has because their moves can be predicted more easily, because now a human being can calculate their perfect course of action like Karma. Think of a basketball player that has all the tools to succeed but spends all of their time partying or a person that is disadvantaged and knows how to deal with struggle that comes there way because there's always a chance they make it through. Even with perfection, there's still a matter of probability that there still isn't success.

[@brauliohernandez8409]

Nolo's scene is so intense

[@julbot1]

Their biggest downfall was breaking too far from that they were actually good at, racing. It's in the name, Racing Drones, but they kept trying to act like Combat Drones with how they would frequently botch dominant leads in favor of trying to fight the Human drivers.

[@thomasdaartist8938]

I would really love a more in-depth video about Dr. Tesla and Gig's relationship (from World Race to the end of Acceleracers) I've never really heard people talk about it back then

[@chinnymisc]

kind of done now lmao

[@hybridAbsol]

Future of NFS, robots slowly taking over the racing scene in worst possible ways

[@cyanide92]

I got a video idea, how about doing a tier list ranking the realms/cars

[@SuperSaiyan3985]

LOL, the Drones played themselves implementing the use of Sweepers. I also found it pretty fascinating how you pointed out that the Realms only seemed to target the Drones for elimination, which I never noticed before. It's definitely not a coincidence 🤔 Also, sorry to be a grammar cop but it's "failed miserably", not "miserably failed" 🤗

[@VincentNgKianWee]

Everything fails except captured Kadeem and transform him into racing drones is a success

[@slingshotkurt8474]

Drones in Realms go BOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[@pokebreeder2517]

and the case of what happened to shirako was because it was the only way to same him from going kaboom.

[@Jd-jb9fs]

Theory video on the Rd-l1 and if hes sentient also who are the other lieutenants , was kadeem gonna be a lieutenant

[@drivingforalivinx1]

Literally I hate drones, but the designs of the drones, theme is sick. Green, black. But they didn’t release all of the RDs like RD-05 RD-08, etc.

[@jclau77]

HiTop films but Acceleracers edition

[@Ultrontu]

You make a good point man in all the realms they always destroy all the drones but not the humans and I’ve wondered why now I see hot theories though keep it up man

[@betegarcia6766]

Spetacular and depp analysis as always

[@swapertxking]

Okay but if the realms know that the drones shouldn’t be there, and will actively try to destroy them, why would the realms even reward them with accelechargers?

[@mikemasaki8193]

I headcanon that whilst the realms make it harder on the drones they also know "well, crap, drone won, and we made it harder on them. may as well reward them..."

[@SuperSaiyan3985]

Very good question!

[@FOX97494]

Realm: reward drones with accelechargers. Also Realm: wait that's illegal.

[@redparrotgaming8060]

you might argue that the silencerz could be the reason they started losing, but nope, not even close, ironically the silencerz screwed the human drivers more than the drones, if there were no silencerz, taro would've won the metro, ice and pipeline realm, and kurt would've probably won the cliffside realm, i say ironically because the silencerz are humans too, wich makes it kinda odd that they target other humans more than the drones

[@duyducluu6821]

The Silencerz practically cause crimes back to back in the Realms. Since they can be seen as the US Army’s involvement in the Wheel of Power business Tezla left behind, they could’ve been on trial for many crimes. I mean, they literally ATTACKED civilians, and did that THREE TIMES IN A ROW with a single one. The Teku, or Metal Maniacs, despite being illegal street racing teams, they’re still civilians.

[@ralphx6803]

An idea could be made that the silencers noticed the drones chances of winning and surviving in the realms were smaller than the Teku & Metal Maniacs so they decided to target the other drivers knowing the realms would deal with the drones but that’s what just popped in my head as I’m typing this

[@misspurdy27288]

@@duyducluu6821 I disagree about them being civilians. They’re ‘armed’ (the cars) in the context of this war/race, and are chasing the same objective as the drones and silencerz. They’re a valid faction, and the more dangerous of the two enemy forces.

[@HafidzanHusna]

And the drones won the realm only once since they using the sweeper. They only won Ruins Realm. Pipeline realm is the most stupid idea for the drones. They already test the realm before, but how they forgot about the pipeline getting smaller ?

[@lipewar9999]

LOL "Taro crashed because he forgor☠️"

[@013_DPG]

the minecraft music

[@griffinwik]

I have been playing Hot Wheels Unleashed while listening to your AcceleRacers videos so I can remember the plot points again, and I am really glad you keep the series alive. All I remember is how cool the drones' cars seemed to me as a kid.

[@ntinosaggelopoulos6718]

Because they are machines who tried to imitate driving style and not to improvise

[@GamerOC]

Everything in the realms only directly target the drones… ya know except for that magnet in the junk realm that dropped Reverb into a giant crushing chamber… or the statues that injured Vert in the ruins realm, granted they didn’t necessarily do that themselves but they definitely looked like they were about to kill him if given the chance.

[@chinnymisc]

That's because vert didn't have the skills

[@GamerOC]

@@chinnymisc just a bit of a harsher punishment than the other realms

[@smilerofnivel69]

4:30 aceleracers get heavy if humans die of form bright (aceleracers have filter for violence)

[@Karlos1234ify]

The realms were meant for humans, the Accelerons practically blacklisted the drones from there,

[@chinnymisc]

yup! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5nFe3aEq5mnetk

[@venatorclass9334]

Machines

[@lyndsaypeters5981]

I would like to point out that they would have won the Metro Realm if they didn't turn around to go back when Gelorum told them to

[@chinnymisc]

yeah they threw that, could have had at least oe car

[@lyndsaypeters5981]

@@chinnymisc ? You mean one car not go back

[@deslardesslok]

2:11a.m. 6/24/2022

[@deslardesslok]

6 MONTHS LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@Matthew-Anthony]

Sorry, but the Racing Drones did not lose every race in which Sweepers were used. There was at least one Sweeper in the Ruins Realm, and the drones won that race.

[@Matthew-Anthony]

The reason why the Racing Drones increasingly lost more and more races is because of the Silenzers joining in the races. They won the majority of races from that point on. I know that this explanation is not as interesting and meaningful as the one described in the video. However, it is the truth, whether you like it or not.

[@chinnymisc]

I think it's both, they literally threw the metro relam bc of the sweeper and relied on the sweeper instead of drone in junk, pipieline realm

[@Matthew-Anthony]

@@chinnymiscWhat about RD-L1? He was a very good racer. Didn't the Racing Drones rely on his driving abilities alongside the Sweepers?

[@chinnymisc]

@@Matthew-Anthony I think the realms were meant for car drivers which is why relying on rdl1 was better

[@Matthew-Anthony]

@@chinnymiscYou are mostly right. You got the concept correctly. The racing realms were meant to be used by any sentiment lifeforms that understand the true purpose of racing. Those that know it is the strive to win that matters most, rather than winning itself. This is what makes the humans far more suitable for the racing realms than for use by the Racing Drones. The Racing Drones were failures because they never understood that. In fact, it is even worse when you think about it. Gelorem said that the only reason that she and all of the Racing Drones were doing all of these races is to win so that she could meet with the Accelerons again, so that she could "destroy them".

[@chinnymisc]

altough in the acceleracers glossary its stated the the realm are also for robots so idk whats going on there