I think they did a good job choosing a scene that is somewhat easier for CGI: artists have struggled for a long time to make acceleration and general changes of

I think they did a good job choosing a scene that is somewhat easier for CGI: artists have struggled for a long time to make acceleration and general changes of momentum line up with the way that objects do so in real life. It also makes the motion blur shader more or less a constant which is easy to simulate, and our brain fills in the rest :)