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It may not look like it, but we're professionals.

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Do us a favor.

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Don't try this at home! Whoa!

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On this feature-length episode of Mythbusters...

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...strap in for a high-flying...

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...rocket-powered...

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...adrenaline-fueled joyride.

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Here comes chaos!

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Because the team mashed metal...

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...then four fables of automotive mayhem.

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First, Adam and Jamie feel the need for speed.

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Will a city bus flip at 15?

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Ain't no guts, no glory.

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And the original compact, compact impact...

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...is revised and super sonically supersized.

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Then Carrie Grant and Tori find out if a luxury car...

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...can really drive faster than gravity.

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This is gonna be nuts.

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And finally, do these silver screen chase scene cliches...

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...match up to reality.

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So get on board the Mythbus.

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Jump in Mayhem.

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High jigs.

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Horse flay.

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And destruction.

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Step on.

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Because this is the demolition derby special.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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I love results.

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And Jamie Heidemann.

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I'm not so sure this is a good idea.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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We broke some stuff.

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Joining them...

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Tori Belachie.

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Not at all, bye.

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Grant Imahara.

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Watch out!

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And Carrie Byron.

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Well, we may not have had hand grenades.

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But at least we still have good chemistry.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Excellent.

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I see everybody got the message.

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Yeah. Dress for demolition derby.

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So what exactly is going on here?

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You're gonna love this. Tell them.

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Well, it's the Mythbusters demolition derby special.

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Sweet.

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I know. Give them the details.

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Well, we've got...

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Four myths about smashing, trashing and crashing cars, buses and trucks.

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To do this, we'll be using...

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Helicopters, explosives and rocket sleds.

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What?

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Sharrades, Mythbusters style.

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You gotta name the movie and the myth.

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Here we go.

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Oh no, there's a turn coming up.

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What am I gonna do?

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Everyone move over to this side of the bus.

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The movie is speed and it's the best turn.

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Absolutely right.

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However, it's more specific than that.

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Because Keanu says to everyone to move to the inside of the turn.

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So the myth we're testing is that that bus at 50 miles an hour would roll over

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unless all the passengers had moved.

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We've got a hard ride coming up at the construction site.

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1994's speed is an iconic motoring movie.

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I can't make that turn.

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Everyone on this side of the bus now.

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In this key scene, our hero supposedly prevents a 50 miles an hour flip

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by redistributing the passengers weight.

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But did science really save the day?

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Or is this another case of fake film physics?

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I'll tell you, I don't see any reason we shouldn't just jump into this whole hog full scale.

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We're gonna need one of these only, bicker.

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And are we gonna be able to drive it?

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In fact, I have great news on that front.

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The insurance company has said it is okay for you and me to be driving during this test.

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Really?

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Okay, but hold your stunt driving horses.

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Welcome aboard.

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Before the guys get behind the wheel themselves, what exactly are they testing?

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Will the myth centers on moving the bus's center of gravity across to the right hand side

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for a sharp right hand turn?

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So Adam and Jamie are going to try exactly that.

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And then to find out if redistributing the passengers saved the day,

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But first, stuntman George hands out some basic instruction.

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Not only is driving a bus quite simple, it's a ton of fun.

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That's the tire rubbing against the wheel well.

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To get it done in double time, the guys divide and conquer.

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The difference in styles.

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Plastic windows, racing harness and safety seat in place.

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All that's left is the naming ceremony.

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Brought to you by the MTA, the Mythbusters Transportation Authority.

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Which means it's back to Alameda for testing where Jamie has lost the top spot on Adam's affection charm.

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I love this bus.

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But it could be a short love affair because the bus has a date with demolition.

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You're out of my way!

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The cone's living in the distance behind me to describe a highway.

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Not an actual highway, but a theoretical highway that we have built to imitate the one in the movie.

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Next stop, the Mythbusting Zone.

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In the movie, there were 19 people on the bus.

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Now, 19 people adds up to a lot of weight.

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So, we're going to simulate that weight with barrels full of water.

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Each barrel is going to weigh in excess of 450 pounds or so.

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We've got 19 people worth of weight.

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Oh, this is like stunt fantasy camp, man.

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we'll find out if, at the all-important 50 miles per hour, the turn can even be made.

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Have fun!

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See you later, buddy.

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If it can, the guys have their baseline reference.

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If it can't, it'll flip and Adam will be trapped inside.

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Okay, Adam, I guess we're good to go whenever you're ready.

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This is for glory.

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Despite all the safety precautions, there's tension,

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20 miles an hour.

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Here it comes.

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He's getting airborne in the rear of the bus.

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I did it!

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I won!

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Spot the excited mythbusters.

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Despite the protest from the tires, the bus made the turn.

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I cannot even tell you what an adrenaline rush that is to actually make the turn from

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My heart was pounding and that's a result.

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Surprisingly enough, on Adam's run, the movie physics lined right up.

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barrels full of water and the bus didn't tip when it made the turn.

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So after flirting with the flip, things are looking up for the film fable.

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But where to next?

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My successful run proved that the turn we see in the movie is in fact possible.

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But is it because they redistributed the weight?

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We don't know and that's the next thing we got to find out.

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Okay, what do we got to smash?

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We have a four course menu of demolition and destruction.

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We have cars, of course.

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We got a fruit stand, we got a fence, we got a semi-trailer and an RV.

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Yes, we are testing Hollywood crash cliches and whether they're anything close to reality.

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Okay, like the chase scene where they drive through the fruit stand and everybody's fine.

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Yeah, or like in the 70's cop show where they bust through the chain link fence.

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And if you can drive through an RV like it's not even there.

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Like in Mad Max.

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Just like Mad Max.

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Okay, well what's the semi-four?

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Instant convertible.

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I love that one.

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That's where the truck comes across the road.

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There's no time to stop.

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The car drives under, cuts the roof clean off, but the driver's unharmed.

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This is gonna be fun.

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So in the real world would these crash cliches really look like this?

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And would you really drive away unharmed?

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So how you guys want to test this?

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We just set up the obstacles just like in the movies and hit it with the real car and see what really happens.

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So we're gonna radio control some cars?

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No, let's go back up to the guys at e-tech.

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The tow system's already in place and it went so well last time.

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Less work for me.

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Fruit stand.

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Melons, anyone?

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It's a 70's cop show car chase favorite.

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A spectacular fruit stand drive-through that leaves driver and car completely undamaged.

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And where better to test the reality of a car crash than e-tech.

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Where last time the team hit repeatedly a moose loose on the road.

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But this time out goes the animal and in comes the rotten fruit and vegetables.

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These are gonna be our fruit stands.

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This is for our classic car chase scene.

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Which way to the destruction?

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The car drives through the fruit stand, vendor jumps out of the way.

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Fruits and vegetables go everywhere.

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What we want to know, if you do crash into a fruit stand, would you be able to continue the chase?

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My feeling is you're gonna smash up your radiator, your car's gonna overheat,

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and you're gonna stall off the side of the road and the cop's gonna catch you.

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Hope no cars come crashing into my fruit stand.

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For this test we're gonna have the car going at 70 miles an hour.

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This is the tow vehicle, which is going to be pulling our crash vehicle on a 2 to 1 pulling ratio.

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Which means when this vehicle gets up to 35 miles an hour, this car will be going 70 miles an hour.

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It'll be towed straight down the track by a cable, all the way to the end, where it'll release.

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And hit this fruit stand in a spectacular way.

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But will it be Hollywood spectacular?

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Alright, this is Hollywood crash test into the fruit stand in 3, 2, 1.

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20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 70, 70.

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That was awesome!

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Talk about a tossed fruit salad.

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Yep, the spray of fruit and vegetables was very Hollywood.

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And you can see why it's become such a crash cliche.

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It makes for good TV.

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That absolutely lived up to Hollywood spectacle.

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It was beautiful.

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But in reality, did the car make it through unharmed and wasn't able to continue its car chase?

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I think even if you did make it through the fruit stand, you can't really see so well out the windshield.

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Look at all its smushy, spruce smoothies.

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Oh! Cool!

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Okay, well now that you've seen the footage, what do you think?

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It looks like a classic Hollywood crash to me.

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Yeah, I mean, no wonder they use the fruit stand on TV all the time.

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It looks awesome, and from this angle, it looks like it made it through easily.

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Yeah, you know what? There's no way that car would be able to continue the chase and the shape that it's in.

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So this one's busted?

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Yeah, busted.

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Busted.

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Well, that's not it, right?

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Nope, chain link fence is next.

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The Mythbusters have set their sights on some car carnage.

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They're testing four myths of motoring mayhem guaranteed to bend your fender.

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So buckle up, brace, and kiss the asphalt goodbye.

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This is the Demolition Derby Special.

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And Jamie and Adam began the metal mashing with need for speed.

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Everyone on this side of the bus now. This side of the bus.

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With Keanu's quick thinking of made a difference in real life,

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was the moving of those passengers enough to counteract a catastrophic role?

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We're tough.

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So far, the movie is matching up to reality.

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We ain't getting airborne in the rear end.

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With the passengers in the same configuration, Adam made the turn, but only just.

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I won.

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So what's next?

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Well, I think we do the same turn again,

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except this time with the weight evenly distributed throughout the bus.

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Okay, we're moving ahead.

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This next run is it.

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This is where the rubber literally meets or leaves the road.

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We're at 10 miles an hour.

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We are now doing the speed turn at 50 miles an hour with an evenly balanced load,

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which in the movie they thought would make the bus tip over.

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They were at 20.

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If it doesn't, the myth is cleanly and beautifully busted.

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Okay, 30 miles an hour.

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It seems so peaceful, you know, you can't hear anything.

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35 miles an hour.

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Just a bus approaching.

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No sign of the impending mayhem.

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50 miles an hour.

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Here comes chaos.

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Yeah!

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Oh yeah!

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That was beautiful!

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With one expertly executed stunt,

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Jamie jumps back to number one on Adam's affection chart.

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But there was no 50 mile an hour flip.

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That's frustrating, I tell you why,

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because I gave it everything I could and that bus just wouldn't roll.

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Just to make sure, Adam suggests Jamie tries again.

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Copy that, I'm on my way.

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Oh, that's an excited item and you hear that?

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We don't hear that often around here.

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So it's round two and adrenaline junkie Jamie

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once again hits the turn at top speed.

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That's pretty much it as far as I'm concerned.

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Again, there was plenty of rock, but no roll.

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And with that, it's back to the shop to make the call.

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Well, Hollywood got at least part of this right.

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With all the passengers on the inside of the bus turned,

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that bus made that turn at 50 miles an hour.

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Yeah, but you know, the real question here was

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about what would have happened if they hadn't moved?

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Right, and in that case, when we readjusted the way,

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it still made the turn and so the myth is busted.

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I agree, it's busted, but you know, we can't leave it there.

314
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No, we can't. I want to make this bus obedient

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and I want to make it roll over for us. Any ideas?

316
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Yeah, you know, I was looking at that bus and I really want to R-see it.

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You know, that'd be one heck of a thing.

318
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That's perfect, let's flip it.

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We have to remote control this bus and as we found out on

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Driveshaft Pull Volt, R-seeing a vehicle can be devilishly difficult,

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especially the translation from small joysticks

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to big movements of cars driving around.

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What the hell was that?

324
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In this case, we're doing something entirely different.

325
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We are doing a one-to-one remote control,

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what's called a Waldo in the industry, to the bus, to wit.

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This will be our remote control steering for the bus.

328
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We're going to have a switch for brakes and a switch for throttle

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because it's either all on or all off and this will be our steering.

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It'll allow us to really finesse this thing, hopefully.

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I think I'll only need now as a cup holder.

332
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Meanwhile, well that's not a good thing.

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Jamie has the tricky task of mechanically translating

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the information from Adam's remote control rig to the bus itself.

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But true to form, our mustachioed maestro comes good.

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Go ahead and bring it all the way to the right.

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All the way to the right?

338
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Yeah.

339
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Oh yeah!

340
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I'd say that's a pretty sharp turn.

341
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This is awesome!

342
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We could have so much fun with this thing.

343
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Gary Grant and Tory are taking on tall tales of Hollywood Crash cliches.

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And after the car was busted from a fruit stand drive-through, so was the mill.

345
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Next up, it's the old chase scene gatecraft.

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The question is, would it really fly off the hood like so much set dressing?

347
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Or would there be real-life repercussions?

348
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One thing's for sure, this isn't a film prop.

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It's steel, it's heavy, and most importantly, the guys have rigged it realistically.

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The things that we're looking for from this crash are,

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is the car drivable after it bangs through the fence?

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And, does it look like Hollywood?

353
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I really, really doubt the part where it's going to look like Hollywood.

354
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I don't think it's just going to go, pink, and you're going to be able to drive through.

355
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I think I'm going to go with busted on this one.

356
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All right, let's wreck this thing.

357
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Okay, this is Hollywood Gate Crashing Test in three, two, one, go!

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Twenty miles an hour, thirty miles an hour, forty, fifty miles, sixty miles an hour, seventy miles an hour!

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Woo!

360
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We were looking to see if this was going to look like Hollywood, and it looked like Hollywood.

361
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The gate just busted right open.

362
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I was wrong, I'm totally excited about that.

363
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Yes, it was the perfect example of a Hollywood Gate Crashing.

364
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It flew open, and the car appeared to breeze through unharmed, or did it?

365
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Let me tell you, if I was an action hero, having the airbags go off and the horn keep going would be pretty annoying.

366
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You would be very distracting while you're driving.

367
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Distracting, impractical, and dangerous, but as Grant proves, it's still drivable.

368
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It doesn't handle as well as it used to. Not the smoothest ride, but still works.

369
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So, where does that leave us?

370
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Well, runs.

371
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I don't want to call it confirmed because the airbag deployed.

372
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What if we call it plausible because a lot of older cars don't have airbags?

373
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Good point. Well, it looked like Hollywood, and you could still drive the car.

374
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This one's plausible.

375
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Plausible.

376
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Plausible.

377
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Next on Mythbusters, find out why we can't get car insurance.

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Before the Hollywood car crashes continue, the car carnage is now taken to great heights.

379
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All right, you guys, what's next?

380
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This one is going to be big. We are dropping a car from 4,000 feet.

381
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Oh, that sounds cool. So what's the myth?

382
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Well, it's from a car commercial, but basically there's a helicopter suspending a car at 4,000 feet.

383
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4,000 feet below, there's a giant X.

384
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Oh, yeah, I've seen this one. And there's a second car that's on the ground that's also 4,000 feet away from the X.

385
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And it's going at top speed, and they give a signal to the helicopter to release the other car,

386
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and then it's a race to see who gets the X first. So what happens?

387
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Well, the car racing on the ground reaches the X a split second before the falling car.

388
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Wow, that's going to be spectacular. And there's a lot of questions to be answered to find out what exactly is going to happen.

389
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Proving that sexy science sells, this slick commercial uses gravity and terminal velocity to showcase a luxury product.

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Traveling at its top speed of 142 miles per hour, the car in question competes with a second falling vehicle in a 4,000 foot race.

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The result? Well, the commercial claims the car kicks gravity's butt.

392
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But is this ad fact or fiction?

393
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Alright, so will the car driving at top speed 142 miles an hour over 4,000 feet beat the car falling from the helicopter 4,000 feet above the X?

394
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Which car is going to beat which?

395
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I think that depends on a number of factors. For example, will the car fall flat like it does in the commercial?

396
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Yeah, that's important because drag and surface area is going to determine how fast that car falls.

397
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Exactly, and I want to know exactly what the chances are of a car hitting an X from 4,000 feet.

398
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Well, before we go to full scale, why don't we get a couple cars, drop them from a crane and see what they do?

399
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You know you're onto something big when your small scale involves dropping cars from a crane.

400
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But before the fender bending begins, let's bend your brains with some background info.

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An object's top speed, its terminal velocity, is reached when gravity is equal by drag.

402
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And thanks to a previous parable about parachuting, the team know that how an object falls is a crucial component in shaping its terminal velocity.

403
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Which means the way the car falls through the air will dictate the course of this myth.

404
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So we are back at the Tiger Aggregates Vernalis plant, which is the very same location where we almost flew our bamboo ultralight from the McGuy Respecial.

405
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That was sick! It almost had flight!

406
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That's our crane, no way!

407
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It's bigger than I thought.

408
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So this myth is going to require us to drop a car from 4,000 feet in the air.

409
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Now before we do that, we just want to get an idea of what we're getting ourselves into.

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So Hatton Crane has lent us the largest mobile hydraulic crane in all of California.

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It can extend over 400 feet in the air.

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We're going to drop a few cars and see how they fall.

413
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With the same rig as the commercial, they'll be lifting each of their test cars and dropping them.

414
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That is one big crane.

415
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I know!

416
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And in case you're wondering why the guys are focusing on the fall, here's Grant.

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Now how the car falls in air is really critical to this myth.

418
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If it falls flat like it does in the commercial, there's more drag, which means it takes longer for the car to get to the X.

419
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Okay, we're live.

420
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:10,000
If it falls nose first, that means there's less drag and it takes less time to get to the X and this myth will probably be busted.

421
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Take it up to the position we're going to drop from.

422
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
I think that this myth is extremely complicated.

423
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,000
I have a hard time believing that cars are going to drop smoothly to the ground horizontally

424
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and another car is going to smoothly be able to meet it at one point.

425
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I just think that there's so many factors involved.

426
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000
We're going to see a little more like this.

427
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Alright, here we go.

428
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000
In three, two, one, go!

429
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Oh my god, look at that! It's going down!

430
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My god!

431
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000
Did you see how it went nose down?

432
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000
Yeah, it started flat and then it started to turn.

433
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I'm only going to keep going from there.

434
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000
Oh! Wow!

435
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000
Dang!

436
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:10,000
That was sick! Now, I know this is not about the crash. It's about how the car falls, but that was a spectacular crash.

437
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Yep, and the result couldn't be clearer.

438
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Unlike the commercial, this car tipped forward and parked itself nose first in the quarry.

439
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Whoops! Did we get the rental insurance on this?

440
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,000
So after just the first test, the myth is looking like it's been dropped from 400 feet.

441
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But the team isn't given up yet, not with two more cars to destroy.

442
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Should we reset for another one?

443
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000
Yeah, we get to do it again!

444
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Next!

445
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Okay, go!

446
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000
That was more satisfying than anything we've done in a long time.

447
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Fun times with a 50-mile-an-hour flip.

448
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Yeah!

449
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Don't try anything you've seen on the show at home.

450
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We are what you're called experts.

451
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For those of you who are just tuning in, we are replicating the 50-mile-per-hour hard bus turn from the movie Speed.

452
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The myth is that unless everybody in that bus moved to the inside of the turn for the turn, the bus would tip over.

453
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So, I've already taken a run in the bus at 50 miles an hour and successfully made the turn with a proper amount of weight

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equalling people on the inside of the turn.

455
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Ah, I did it! I won!

456
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Very, very good.

457
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Then we balanced out the load and Jamie took a run at 50 miles an hour and also successfully made the turn.

458
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That's busting the myth.

459
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,000
But of course we still want to see a bus tip over and really honestly neither of us wanted to be in the bus when they tipped over.

460
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So we remote controlled the bus with this rig right here.

461
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Ah, this is the most fun toy we've ever built.

462
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And I swear it's going to tip.

463
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Heller high water.

464
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All right, so we do a test?

465
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We don't want to start right off the bat doing the whole inch a lot because when this system is fully operational,

466
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it's full throttle with the brakes off.

467
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000
And we want to start a little softer than that.

468
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:08,000
So I'm going to be in the bus for this test run and I'm going to have the brakes and the throttle myself while Adam is getting used to the steering.

469
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Radio's on.

470
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And then we'll incrementally ramp it up until we go for the whole thing.

471
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I'm go.

472
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,000
And what do you know?

473
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000
Adam sitting in the back of the pickup truck.

474
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000
I got to tell you, this is quite a nice way to drive.

475
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Is successfully steering the bus from 100 feet behind it.

476
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000
Well, mostly.

477
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000
What are you doing?

478
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000
Sorry, I was over correcting there.

479
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Okay, well let's try and do a full throttle run because the real proof is in how well you can keep it on a straight line at full speed.

480
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Over.

481
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That right there was a phenomenally successful test of the systems.

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45.

483
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This really, I think, heralds in an entirely new era of remote vehicle control for mythbusters.

484
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This rig right here, we're not breaking this thing down.

485
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000
We're going to hang it from Jamie's ceiling and label all the parts.

486
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Next time we got to RC something, this is how we do it because this is awesome.

487
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000
So now that the guys have control of the bus from a safe distance, it's time to ensure it tips.

488
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
The whole thing about this myth is it's about the center of gravity.

489
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Keanu in the movie perceived that a balanced center of gravity wouldn't be enough to keep the bus from tipping, so he moved the center of gravity inward.

490
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:31,000
Now we've got to unbalance the center of gravity enough with enough weight and enough features to get that bus to go past its CG in the middle of that turn and tip over.

491
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000
What are we doing to make this bus tip?

492
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000
Let's have a look.

493
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000
We've shifted all our barrels, which are our surrogate people, to the outside of the turn.

494
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,000
We've added 4,000 pounds of steel to the roof to make it top heavy.

495
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:56,000
And finally, with the nail in the coffin, we put a valve on this side of the bus on the air shock, and we're going to dump the air, dropping the bus on this side, bringing all that weight over center, and over goes the bus.

496
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000
It's in gear, it's all powered up.

497
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000
All right, let's go, my adrenaline's pumping.

498
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000
But with a test of this scale, anything could happen.

499
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
All right, here we go.

500
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Taking off the brake and putting on the throttle on full.

501
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000
It's never never.

502
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000
Throttle did not engage.

503
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000
Repeat.

504
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Throttle did not engage.

505
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Including a failure of the throttle control.

506
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:28,000
But Jamie, moving quicker than we've ever seen him on Mythbusters, jumps aboard, manually overrides the system, and puts the pedal to the metal.

507
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000
However...

508
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000
The brakes not working.

509
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Now the brakes won't disengage.

510
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,000
We're going to go in there.

511
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000
But Jamie's on a mission.

512
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:44,000
Our man of action, back aboard, takes off the brakes, but with a throttle full on, the race is on.

513
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Quickly, quickly.

514
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Fortunately, the truck has enough power to catch up, and once back in range, the steering is still working.

515
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
That's a good distance.

516
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Despite the improvised and chaotic start, the test is still on track.

517
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Holy crap, this is almost as much of an adrenaline rush as when I was driving it.

518
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Here it comes.

519
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Here it comes.

520
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
And there she goes.

521
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000
The full flip at 50.

522
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
And here's a classic understatement.

523
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Yeah!

524
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Woo!

525
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
That's cool!

526
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
You could say the boys are happy.

527
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,000
That was more satisfying than anything we've done in a long time.

528
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000
That was something else in the start.

529
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
I was getting tired of all this messing around with radio bugs.

530
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,000
This servo wasn't working, that servo wasn't working, so I hit the switch for full throttle, and then I ran.

531
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Helping that I could make it back to the pickup before this thing got out of range.

532
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
It actually worked.

533
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Okay, go!

534
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000
It was a little gutsy, but hey, no guts, no glory.

535
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
The only thing that was still working was the steering, and it turns out that's all we needed.

536
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Can you tell by adrenaline it's still pumping?

537
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Is everybody okay in here?

538
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Wow, it's like an action movie, dude.

539
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Yep, and this action movie myth, much like the bus, is busted.

540
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
So we've r-seed buses, cars, trucks.

541
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
I think it's time we r-seed a big military vehicle.

542
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000
How about an airplane?

543
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Ha! Yes!

544
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Coming up...

545
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000
You guys are in perfect formation, everything's going beautifully.

546
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Adam and Jamie, after waiting three years, finally get to compact their compact.

547
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Damn it!

548
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Or do they?

549
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Up next is a ghost of seasons past, but this time bigger, better, and tastier?

550
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
What's on the menu?

551
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Oh, today, miss you, I have an explosive dish that sees a fusion between several elements,

552
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,000
and it smells slightly of burnt motor oil and singe steel.

553
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
I present to you the compact.

554
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Compact.

555
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Well, there were a few problems with first-mortem, so why wouldn't mind giving it another go?

556
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,000
That is precisely the attitude that makes this dish delicious.

557
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000
This grisly, fatal fable is an all-time fan favorite.

558
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:04,000
After two truck and trailers collide head-on on the highway, the resulting wreckage is supposedly fused together,

559
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000
hiding a pancake compact car.

560
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000
But back in season three, not a whole lot went right.

561
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Dude, oh no!

562
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000
There were runaway trucks, unilateral crashes,

563
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000
There goes the car.

564
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
and crucially, a mist-timed compact impact.

565
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
It wasn't quite right, but I don't think we can reset.

566
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Actually, despite it taking three years, yes we can.

567
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
What exactly are we doing different this time?

568
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Well, the fans contend that last time we did this, we didn't get the fusion or pan-kicking we were looking for

569
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,000
because of a couple of screw-ups on our part, the main one being timing,

570
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000
that the two semis did not hit our compact car at precisely the same moment.

571
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
And they really should have been going faster.

572
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I mean, 35 miles an hour, we just need to tune things up a bit.

573
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Get started.

574
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Where these two old rust buckets, the trucks, not Adam and Jamie,

575
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
are being prepped for their head-to-head.

576
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,000
The guys will be using a similar setup from season three, so they're up and running quickly.

577
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:39,000
To ensure a simultaneous hit on the car, the two semis will be towed by cables of exactly the same length.

578
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Plus, an additional set of pulleys will mean the tow trucks have all the room they need to pull the semis at highway speeds.

579
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000
And with the cable laid, and the trucks and trailers rigged.

580
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Hot damn, I love cutting steel.

581
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
It's time to meet the meat in the sandwich.

582
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:10,000
This is our compact car that's going to be even a little more compact in a little bit.

583
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000
And with the dead car driving dressed for its catastrophic date with two trucks,

584
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Jamie and Adam add our understandably reluctant drivers.

585
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Next, the tow trucks arrive, and once they're hooked into the system,

586
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
this is the last link in the chains.

587
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
That's it.

588
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000
The guys are almost done.

589
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000
But after a long day, tempers fray over the final detail.

590
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,000
The breakaway road.

591
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:43,000
When everything crashes together, this snaps and keeps these guys from being errrrrrrrrrp pulled up short.

592
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000
But if it's not strong enough, it may snap too early.

593
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
And the semis become runaways.

594
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Jamie, I think this blue rub's going to hold just fine.

595
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
I don't know. I think we should double it up.

596
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Alright, then it's on you. I don't want to, but if you want to do it.

597
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:05,000
After an off-camera discussion, they decide not to double up, but to go with three rather than four lengths of rope.

598
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
And once that's done, they're good to go.

599
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:13,000
We have about a mile of cable. We've got two ancient trucks that are about to fall apart on their own.

600
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000
All right, Mark and KC, will you start your engines please?

601
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000
We've got rope, we've got pulleys, we've got shackles every which way.

602
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:27,000
And somehow all of these things have to hit dead on at the same time.

603
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000
All right guys, let's start rolling nice and smooth at first and then the route we planned.

604
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:37,000
The probability of this actually happening, it's really kind of low when you think about it.

605
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Three, two, one, go.

606
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Despite Jamie's pessimism, the early signs are good.

607
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000
You guys are in perfect formation, everything's going beautifully.

608
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000
But as it turns out, this experimental glass really is half empty.

609
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
They're both running away.

610
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
We have a runaway truck.

611
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Yes, the truck from the Alameda end of the runway is rolling away towards Frisco Bay.

612
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
So it's going to go into the water.

613
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes!

614
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Now that would have been an interesting call to the authorities.

615
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Damn it!

616
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
The San Francisco track doesn't flirt with the same level of disaster.

617
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000
It simply destroys a chain-link fence.

618
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
The rope went, it's the rope went.

619
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Well Jamie, looks like you were right.

620
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Let's go tie more rope.

621
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Yep, it was the breakaway rope all right.

622
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,000
And in a show of professionalism, Jamie resists the urge to say,

623
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
I told you so, at least out loud.

624
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,000
The weakest link in this chain was the breakaway rope and that's what we wanted it to be.

625
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Now, exactly how strong does that have to be?

626
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:52,000
It's really kind of a, it's a guess and we guessed wrong.

627
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
We need to put more rope on there.

628
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,000
No, no.

629
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,000
All jokes aside, the guys get into salvage mode to assess and fix the damage.

630
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Hey Jamie, the steering rig on this one needs repair too.

631
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:10,000
And like the well-lubricated team they are, they soon have both trucks ready for another run.

632
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
And the light beats them to it.

633
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
It's good, isn't it pretty? Let's go.

634
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000
It's too late, it's too dark.

635
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000
No high speed, no truck crash.

636
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
We're going to have to do it early tomorrow morning.

637
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000
All right, next.

638
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
If I was a different kind of person, I'd hug you right now.

639
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000
See what caused Adam's post-crash crush.

640
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,000
Go!

641
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Carrie Grant and Tori are taking on a tall tale from the world of advertising.

642
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:50,000
They're asking, does the science in a popular car commercial stack up in the real world?

643
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Will the car dropped from the sky fall flat and accurately?

644
00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,000
And will the car on the ground beat the falling car in a race over 4,000 feet?

645
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,000
But so far it's not looking good.

646
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Do you see how it went nose down?

647
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,000
It turns out falling cars don't fall flat like they do on film.

648
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
At least this one didn't.

649
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Now what we're going to do is take up another car over 400 feet, drop it again.

650
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
This way we have a bigger sample size.

651
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Let's take it up.

652
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,000
I know it seems a little gratuitous, but I mean it's for science, so it's worth it.

653
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Here we go. In three, two, one, go!

654
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000
Look at the car!

655
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Once again, it was a four-wheeled nose diving missile,

656
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000
with no hint of a flat flight from the commercial.

657
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Which has got the guys thinking.

658
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Maybe they need to match the myth more accurately.

659
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
So we're wondering what did the car's fall nose first?

660
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Well, as it turns out, most of the cars that are at the budget end of the spectrum,

661
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
the kind that we can afford to drop from a crane, have most of their weight front of center.

662
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000
So it actually makes sense that they'll fall nose first.

663
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Look at that!

664
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
But this isn't busted yet.

665
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Luxury cars, like the ones in the commercial, have a 50-50 even weight distribution.

666
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
Now they're engineered that way to give you a smoother ride.

667
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
The clunkers we're dropping are more like 60-40.

668
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:38,000
So maybe if we have a 50-50 even weight distribution, we'll get a nice flat fall.

669
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
That looks good. It looks really good.

670
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
What the team have done is load this car's trunk with enough junk

671
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000
to give it the same balance as the luxury model in the myth.

672
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Three, two, one, go!

673
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Oh my God!

674
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
That was so loud!

675
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
That was great!

676
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
It was perfect!

677
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Did you feel the shock wave?

678
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Yes!

679
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Go!

680
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
This drop couldn't have gone smoother.

681
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,000
We dropped a car with 50-50 weight distribution and it fell completely horizontal.

682
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,000
Now that doesn't mean when we drop it from a helicopter at 4,000 feet that's going to happen.

683
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000
But at least so far the myth is looking pretty good.

684
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
There might be some truth in this one.

685
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,000
Okay, so what's next?

686
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Full scale it is.

687
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Yep, let's get out to the desert and start dropping cars from the helicopter.

688
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Well first we need to find two luxury cars that are balanced just like the ones in the commercial

689
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000
because we've seen how crucial that is.

690
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Right, because if the falling car doesn't fall flat like it does in the ad,

691
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,000
it'll have less drag and it could fall quicker, which would be bad news for the myth.

692
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Right, and we also have a lot of work to do on the ground car to remote control it.

693
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
What? You mean I don't get to drive this car?

694
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,000
Nope.

695
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:04,000
To do this safely the car will be in the remote control hands of Grant, our resident joystick junkie.

696
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
He's starting to move up in the world.

697
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000
I do love a luxury car!

698
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000
In order to get the car to the X, I only need three controls.

699
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000
One, steering, obviously, just to make sure you get to the X.

700
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000
He's nice to come up with just a hair.

701
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,000
Two, throttle, to make sure I'm going the right speed.

702
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,000
Ha ha!

703
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Perfect.

704
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000
And finally, brake.

705
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:32,000
So with Grant's fake feet fitting like a glove and his robo hands pointing in the right direction,

706
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,000
the next step is to get eyes on the prize.

707
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Now another big challenge is getting to the X.

708
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Remember, I'm not going to be anywhere near this car.

709
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:46,000
I'm going to be over 4,000 feet away, so I won't be able to see where the car is going.

710
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Hey, it looked taller on TV.

711
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,000
That's why I've got a small camera that's going to be mounted to the hood.

712
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000
And that's going to transmit a signal to wherever I am controlling the car.

713
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:04,000
And that camera is going to look at a line that we're going to carve in the desert that leads all the way to the X.

714
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000
The remote controls aren't the only gadgets Grant's been geeking out over.

715
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:17,000
He's also brought in the guys from Duotron to make sure the drop car is balanced exactly like the one in the commercial,

716
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,000
which is achieved after Tori adds a little extra trunk junk.

717
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000
There's one way to get back at your X.

718
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:32,000
Then with Grant fitting a long range radio unit, the final piece of the RC puzzle is in place.

719
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000
And the guys are ready to hit the desert and plunge into a Mythbuster history.

720
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,000
Adam and Jamie have been waiting for three years to revise and supersize.

721
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000
They're going to go into the water.

722
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,000
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes!

723
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
The myth of the compact compact.

724
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,000
But so far, it ain't looking good.

725
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Well, you know what I always say, failure is always an option.

726
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Our two trucks decided to go sightseeing yesterday, but we've got them back on the line.

727
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:15,000
They're back and ready for duty, and in a few minutes, we're going to try the smashy-smashy again.

728
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:20,000
And while Jamie ensures their breakaway rope doesn't break away prematurely,

729
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Adam makes an installation piece of his favorite model.

730
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Well, this may look like a half a sentence.

731
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000
In fact, I've written the other half of this sentence a mile away,

732
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:44,000
and yet for a fleeting second, this sentence will be home to the ultimate destruction of the concept.

733
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000
It's mind-blowing!

734
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,000
We have been trying to determine if two semi-tractor trailers hit each other head-on at highway speeds,

735
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000
and there happens to be a car between them.

736
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000
Will they one, smash that car as flat as a pancake?

737
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,000
True, this is not a drill. We are going to go.

738
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000
And two, become fused together so that they cannot be separated.

739
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:12,000
Tow trucks on my mark start rolling in three, two, one, roll.

740
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000
And away they go.

741
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000
We tried this three years ago, and we kind of succeeded.

742
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,000
We tried it yesterday, and we pretty much failed today.

743
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,000
We're hoping to answer this question once and for all.

744
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,400
Come on, come on, come on, jump to papa.

745
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,040
At 1,000 feet from impact, they hit 20 miles per hour.

746
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,920
And there's no snapping, braking, or shearing

747
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,840
of ropes or cables.

748
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:36,280
Far so good.

749
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,600
40 miles per hour and 250 feet.

750
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,080
Here we go.

751
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:42,920
Well, this is definitely the point of no recovery.

752
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:43,880
They're going too fast.

753
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,780
Yeah.

754
00:46:44,780 --> 00:46:48,240
Oh, it's going to work.

755
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:49,560
Are they going to hit at the same time?

756
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:55,180
Wow.

757
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,920
That was a magnificent test, everyone.

758
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,760
That worked freaking perfectly.

759
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,280
If I was a different kind of person, I'd hug you right now.

760
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,320
The relief of finally pulling it off is obvious.

761
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,560
And the immediate signs from their distant vantage point

762
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,400
are looking good for the myth.

763
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,520
The timing at full speed looked perfect.

764
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,120
The trucks appear to be smooshed into one.

765
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,040
And there's no sign of the car.

766
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,800
All right, let's go look at the carnage.

767
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,240
OK.

768
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,160
Later, this is going to be nuts.

769
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,880
It's car drop chaos in the desert.

770
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:48,080
But first, there's more crash-esque clichés.

771
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:49,160
Crash is an empire.

772
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,040
This is awesome.

773
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,200
Do not try what you're about to see at home.

774
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,800
We consult with experts.

775
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,120
We take every precaution.

776
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,680
And we have years of experience in dangerous situations.

777
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,360
Before Carrie granted Tori D-Mob to the desert

778
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,080
for car drop chaos, they've got two more Hollywood crash

779
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,000
tests.

780
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,520
That was so Hollywood.

781
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,840
Next, they test a scene from one of Tori's favorite movies.

782
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,280
Mad Max.

783
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,640
As an RV stalls across the highway,

784
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,440
a cop car punches clean through it,

785
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,880
able to continue its high-speed pursuit.

786
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,640
Now, I don't want to call Grant a prima donna,

787
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,480
but he's been asking for a trailer for a long time.

788
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:39,560
Stop.

789
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,960
Now I can finally say, I'll be in my trailer.

790
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,400
You better enjoy it, because he's not

791
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:44,280
going to have it for long.

792
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,640
With all these myths, we're looking for two things.

793
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,800
We want to see if, in fact, these crashes do look like they

794
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,200
do in the Hollywood movies.

795
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,600
And after they're done crashing through whatever it is

796
00:48:58,600 --> 00:48:59,760
we're going to crash them through,

797
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,400
will they continue to run like they do in the movies?

798
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,760
Mr. Imahar, you're wanted on set.

799
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,120
Grant?

800
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:10,120
Grant?

801
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,960
God, I did not want to see that.

802
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,840
This is trailer destruction.

803
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,640
In three, two, one, hit it.

804
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,640
10, 20, 30, 40.

805
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:24,640
Here it comes.

806
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:25,640
You hit it.

807
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,640
60, 70 miles an hour.

808
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:28,640
Woo!

809
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,640
My trailer!

810
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:33,640
Yeah!

811
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:34,640
Ha-ha!

812
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,640
Yeah, there was nothing Hollywood about that.

813
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,640
That was simply a car wreck.

814
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,640
We completely destroyed that trailer.

815
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:46,640
There was no hole punch.

816
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,640
It was goodbye to the trailer.

817
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:49,640
Oh!

818
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:50,640
It is pretty flat.

819
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,640
That's why we can never have anything nice.

820
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:54,640
Don't worry, buddy.

821
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:55,640
We'll put it back together.

822
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,640
The trailer is trashed, and the conclusions are quick to follow.

823
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,640
That was a very spectacular crash, but it wasn't like in the movie

824
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,640
where they just punch a clean hole through and keep going.

825
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,640
And the car, it's not drive-thru.

826
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,640
And they're definitely not continuing their chase.

827
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:13,640
Woo!

828
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:14,640
Woo!

829
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,640
That was awesome.

830
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,640
The car hit the chassis, and the trailer pretty much disappeared.

831
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,640
But this myth is busted on both accounts.

832
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,640
Not only did it not look like the Hollywood stunt,

833
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,640
but the car was not drivable after the crash.

834
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,640
So, busted on both accounts.

835
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:35,640
Wow!

836
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:36,640
Wow!

837
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,640
Just about sums it up.

838
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,640
Because the guys have succeeded at what has to be one of the trickiest tests

839
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,640
in mythbuster history.

840
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:51,640
From a mile apart, they've managed to smash two semi-trucks head-on.

841
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,640
And the car is going to be a mess.

842
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,640
It's going to be a mess.

843
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,640
It's going to be a mess.

844
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,640
It's going to be a mess.

845
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,640
One of the tricks is to smash two semi-trucks head-on.

846
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,640
Let's go look at the carnage.

847
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:07,640
Okay.

848
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,640
And hit simultaneously from either end, what is now...

849
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,640
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

850
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,640
a very compact compact.

851
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:16,640
Ha ha ha ha!

852
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,640
Ha, the airbag went off.

853
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,640
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

854
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,640
It's shorter.

855
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:23,640
Wow!

856
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,640
Yep, that's some serious car carnage.

857
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,640
But after the shock wears off...

858
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,640
Oh my God, look, it's buster.

859
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,640
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

860
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,640
The serious analysis can begin.

861
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,640
The high-speed camera shows us that both trucks were traveling

862
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,640
at about 50 miles an hour when the impact occurred.

863
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,640
Now that's equivalent to a single impact going into a solid wall

864
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,640
at 100 miles an hour.

865
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,640
That's a heck of an impact.

866
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,640
And in case you don't believe that, we're in one truck.

867
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,640
That's the cab of the other truck.

868
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,640
Think about it.

869
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,640
So the first of the fans' concerns has been fulfilled.

870
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,640
This is just a shock.

871
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,640
The trucks were traveling at highway speeds

872
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:08,640
just over 50 miles per hour.

873
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,640
It's clear they hit pretty square on the back and front,

874
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,640
but that when everything had to move in some direction,

875
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,640
this squeezed out and spun around.

876
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,640
And the reality is to expect a couple of vehicles like this

877
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,640
to accordion straight on and square

878
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,640
and not slide off to one side or the other.

879
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,640
That's a one in a billion chance.

880
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,640
I mean, you've got pivots, you've got all sorts of mass

881
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,640
that is flying, it just wouldn't happen.

882
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,640
So no hidden pancake compact.

883
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,640
And as for part two of the equation...

884
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,640
There was a heck of a lot of energy in that impact, but no fusion.

885
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,640
Yep, it's a big old mess with truck parts where they shouldn't be.

886
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:58,640
But like Jamie said, there's no sign of the mythical fusion.

887
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,640
It doesn't get any neater than that.

888
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,640
I mean, we increased our speed over the first time we tried this experiment

889
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,640
by 35% and we got a perfect head-on collision.

890
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:10,640
It's not really the word I'd use, but the trucks aren't fused together.

891
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,640
I still see the car not looking too good for the myth.

892
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:15,640
No, it's not.

893
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,640
So like our reluctant truck drivers,

894
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,640
the myth is looking battered, bruised and broken.

895
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,640
But the guys aren't ready to call it just yet.

896
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:29,640
After all, this story didn't get the super-sized epithet for nothing.

897
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,640
You know, even with all the explosives and guns and stuff we play with,

898
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,640
what frightens me the most?

899
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:35,640
No, what?

900
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,640
Going on the highway.

901
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,640
And everybody does it.

902
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,640
After the break...

903
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:43,640
Uh-oh.

904
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,640
In-steep convertible and distant drama.

905
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:47,640
Oh my God.

906
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,640
Dang, that was crazy.

907
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,640
Then Adam and Jamie find their new favorite location.

908
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:54,640
What do they use it for?

909
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:59,640
High-velocity testing of warheads, penetrators, explosive devices, that kind of stuff.

910
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,640
Ha ha ha.

911
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,640
Carrie Grant and Tori have already tested three crash cliches.

912
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:18,640
The fourth and final test involves an unwanted car improvement.

913
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,640
The classic instant convertible.

914
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,640
I've seen this crash a million times on TV shows and new movies.

915
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:28,640
Car chase is happening, semi-truck comes across the intersection at just the wrong time,

916
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,640
cars are about to crean into it, but everybody ducks.

917
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,640
They get back up after the car's gone out the other side and now they're in a convertible.

918
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,640
So once again, what we're looking for is does it look like it does in the movies?

919
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:40,640
Stop, stop.

920
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,640
A clean slice all the way across.

921
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,640
And second, is the car drivable?

922
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,640
Could they continue the chase?

923
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:48,640
A little more.

924
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,640
If neither of those things is working, then it's buster.

925
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:53,640
Park it.

926
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,640
And with everyone...

927
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:58,640
Get in it.

928
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:05,640
Including an unfortunate buster in position the final filmic fender bender can get underway.

929
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,640
10, 20, 30.

930
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,640
50 miles an hour, 60.

931
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,640
And 70.

932
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:17,640
Woo!

933
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:18,640
Oh!

934
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,640
Oh!

935
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:20,640
Oh!

936
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,640
Oh!

937
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:22,640
Oh!

938
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:23,640
Oh!

939
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:24,640
Oh!

940
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:25,640
Oh!

941
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,640
What's on the other side of that berm?

942
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:29,640
Uh-oh.

943
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,640
Uh-oh, indeed.

944
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:36,640
The remote braking system fitted for each test seems to have failed.

945
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:37,640
Oh!

946
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:38,640
Oh!

947
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:39,640
Oh!

948
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:40,640
Oh!

949
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,640
Oh, my God.

950
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:45,640
Oh, my God.

951
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,640
Dang, that was crazy.

952
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:48,640
Look at the roof.

953
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,640
The roof's underneath the truck.

954
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,640
I know, it turned into a convertible.

955
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,640
I can't believe it jumped the berm.

956
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:03,640
And if we slow down the shot, you can see the car launch up the dirt bank and into the wild blue yonder.

957
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:09,640
But luckily there was no one to hurt and nothing to damage back there.

958
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:10,640
Oh, my God.

959
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,640
That is a convertible.

960
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:13,640
It worked.

961
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,640
And with the relief comes the results.

962
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:16,640
Oh, my God.

963
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:17,640
Oh, my God.

964
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,640
It ripped the roof right off.

965
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,640
I gotta say, that's pretty good.

966
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,640
It looked like it kept driving and it turned into an instant convertible.

967
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,640
And he looks like he's all right down in there.

968
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,640
Any doubt is dispelled with a look at the footage.

969
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,640
They did indeed have an instant convertible.

970
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:40,640
And for an instant, it appeared to be drivable, at least judging by the speed it was going.

971
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:42,640
Plausible.

972
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:43,640
Plausible.

973
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:44,640
Plausible.

974
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,640
Now how the hell are we going to get this car out of here?

975
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,640
We just throw it back over the fence.

976
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,640
Look at that perfect timing.

977
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,640
They hit the car at the same millisecond.

978
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,640
At highway speeds.

979
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,640
I don't see any pancaking and I don't see any fusion.

980
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:09,640
Well, those are the circumstances in myth, but we need to know what it would take to achieve pancaking and fusion.

981
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:14,640
I'm kind of at a loss to figure out how to amp this up to the next level, man.

982
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:15,640
Rockets.

983
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,640
Have you got a place to do this with rockets?

984
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,640
Yep, I got exactly the place.

985
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:20,640
We got plenty of room.

986
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,640
Everything we need to do the job, New Mexico Tech.

987
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:24,640
I'm in.

988
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:25,640
Let's do it.

989
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:33,640
The energetic materials research and testing center is quite simply a big boom center of excellence.

990
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,640
And here's a sentence you don't hear every day.

991
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:38,640
After a quick hands-on tour.

992
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:40,640
We've got to get one of these.

993
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:45,640
Jamie and Adam get stuck in preparing two rocket powered sleds.

994
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,640
And here's Adam to tell us exactly how it'll work.

995
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:57,640
So our soon to be compact compact will be resting against a one inch thick steel plate representing the first of the two trucks.

996
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:02,640
The second truck will be pushed along a track by the two rocket powered sleds.

997
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,640
The first sled or stage will launch with about 75,000 pounds of thrust.

998
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,640
And by the time it gets to the halfway point, we'll be traveling at almost 400 miles per hour.

999
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,640
At that point, the second stage will fire.

1000
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:19,640
And when it smashes into the car, it will be going on the 700 miles per hour.

1001
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:27,640
And with both sleds prepped, the team heads up to the straight track rocket roller coaster.

1002
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:31,640
Where you could say the boys are excited.

1003
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,640
This is amazing.

1004
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,640
Where else are we going to find an empire state building size piece of track?

1005
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,640
What is this track, about a thousand feet?

1006
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:39,640
Yep.

1007
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,640
It's at the speed of sound.

1008
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:43,640
With the site surveyed, the guys go to work.

1009
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,640
First, they slide both sleds onto the track.

1010
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,640
There we go.

1011
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:49,640
That's good.

1012
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,640
Oh, you don't want to help?

1013
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:59,640
Then they dress the impact zone and compact to be compacted with the all important grid reference for the high speed camera.

1014
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:01,640
Everything gets stripes.

1015
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:02,640
It's all data.

1016
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:08,640
Next, the steel plates playing the part of the trucks get into costume.

1017
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,640
I know everything's got to be a part twisted metal in a few minutes.

1018
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:12,640
I'm not stupid.

1019
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:13,640
You think I'm stupid?

1020
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:14,640
Good.

1021
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:15,640
That's perfect.

1022
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:21,640
I think that even inanimate objects need a motivation, which is why I've drawn a truck on either side of the equation

1023
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,640
so that the car knows what's coming.

1024
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,640
Last but not least, the rockets.

1025
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,640
So this is the five inch H-Var motor.

1026
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,640
This one is probably about 55 years old.

1027
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:40,640
And if you take a whiff, there's nothing like the smell of rocket propellant in the morning.

1028
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,640
I knew you were going there.

1029
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:50,640
Each of these rocket sleds will have 12 of these five inch H-Var rockets, which stands for high velocity aircraft rockets.

1030
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,640
They're Korean war vintage rockets.

1031
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:57,640
They put out about 6,300 pounds of thrust each.

1032
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:59,640
And each one weighs about 80 pounds.

1033
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:05,640
At their peak on a sled, they'll put out 75,000 pounds of thrust.

1034
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,640
So what's the point of all this besides the pure raw fun of it?

1035
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,640
Well, we determined in the field with the two actual trucks that we didn't get a pancake to car.

1036
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:19,640
Now we are throwing everything we can at getting a pancake to car.

1037
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,640
If this doesn't pancake it, nothing will.

1038
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:22,640
We're all wired up.

1039
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:23,640
It's time to leave, huh?

1040
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:24,640
Let's go get in the bunker.

1041
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,640
All right.

1042
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:31,640
This thing over here is where we're going to be when the rocket sled fires.

1043
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,640
Because what's going on there is basically like an explosion.

1044
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,640
It's just a little slower.

1045
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:39,640
In fact, it might even explode for all we know.

1046
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:47,640
This is compact, compact rocket sled in three, two, one.

1047
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:54,640
Next, in car drop chaos, Grant and the experiment are close to cracking.

1048
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,640
And it's a myth buster's first.

1049
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,640
Adam is struck dumb.

1050
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:13,640
Carrie Grant and Tori are hot on the trail of a commercial tall tale.

1051
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:21,640
Can a luxury car traveling at 142 miles per hour beat a falling car in a 4,000 foot race?

1052
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,640
This is going to be awesome.

1053
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,640
We've come all the way out to the Mojave Desert where we have a beautiful expanse of space.

1054
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,640
Listen.

1055
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,640
It's quiet. Too quiet.

1056
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,640
It's like the calm before the storm.

1057
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,640
That we can radio control our car into our car drop.

1058
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:47,640
Yep, it's the perfect spacious location for loquacious overcaffeinated myth busters.

1059
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,640
Can you imagine how crazy this is going to be once we're all set up?

1060
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:55,640
Grant's going to be remotely controlling a car going 140 miles an hour screaming down the desert.

1061
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:59,640
Carrie's going to be up in a helicopter with a car hanging 4,000 feet in the air.

1062
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,640
We're going to release that and see which one gets to the X first.

1063
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:07,640
That's just defender better. We're all good.

1064
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,640
This is going to be nuts.

1065
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,640
Alright, let's mark out our course.

1066
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:19,640
In the commercial, the car on the ground had a smooth strip of asphalt to haul luxury car line.

1067
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,640
Man, it's going to be tough for Grant to control that car.

1068
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:28,640
But out here, the guys will have to settle for a straight line run on the hard packed lakebed.

1069
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,640
Stop! That's it. That's the last car.

1070
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,640
That was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.

1071
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:37,640
But they're not done yet.

1072
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,640
I feel like I've been here before.

1073
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:44,640
Because next, they plow Grant's guideline and at the end of the line, they lay out the target zone.

1074
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:49,640
The desert does make people go crazy.

1075
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:59,640
Meanwhile, back at HQ, in an oasis of sanity, Grant has finished prepping the RC car.

1076
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,640
So here's the low down on the car.

1077
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:09,640
I've got a long range radio control system hooked up to controls for steering, throttle and brake that I can activate from over 2 miles away.

1078
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:17,640
I've got a wireless video camera that links up to a remote monitor so I can follow the line all the way to the target.

1079
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,640
Clearly, this is not your average luxury car.

1080
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:25,640
Clearly, because during a successful systems check, Grant remote controls the steering...

1081
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:27,640
Look, man, no hand!

1082
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:28,640
No faster!

1083
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:38,640
...throttle and brakes with Carrie in the inaccurately named driver's seat, which leaves one final piece of the puzzle.

1084
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,640
Now it's time to move on to the video test.

1085
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:47,640
And probably the most important thing is to see if I can see the line that you guys carved in the desert.

1086
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:52,640
This time, Tori's in the hot seat and he'll be controlling the foot pedals only.

1087
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:53,640
Stand by for video.

1088
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:55,640
Tori, are you ready to go?

1089
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:57,640
I am ready when you guys are.

1090
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:58,640
Ready?

1091
01:03:58,640 --> 01:03:59,640
Hit it.

1092
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:00,640
Hit it!

1093
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,640
It's a great start.

1094
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,640
Looks beautiful.

1095
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:12,640
But as Tori closes in on 50 miles an hour, Grant begins to lose control...

1096
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,640
Okay, he lost the line.

1097
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,640
...and the video signal.

1098
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,640
Oh, okay, I'm gonna take the brakes down here.

1099
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,640
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

1100
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:23,640
I think that test is over.

1101
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,640
How are you feeling?

1102
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:26,640
All right.

1103
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,640
Really, because you look like you're freaking out.

1104
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:30,640
It's no wonder.

1105
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,640
The whole experiment is riding on Grant being able to pull this off.

1106
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,640
But after a few pressure-filled deep thought minutes,

1107
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:40,640
they come up with a solution for the control issue.

1108
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:47,640
They raise the camera from the hood to the roof and give Grant a better view of the track.

1109
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,640
Okey-dokey, let's give this a shot.

1110
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:52,640
And the results are immediate.

1111
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,640
All right, I'm about 60 miles an hour here.

1112
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,640
With the higher vantage point, the oversteering is a thing of the past.

1113
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,640
That's good.

1114
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:03,640
Oh, man.

1115
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:07,640
But with the video still dropping out, he's steering blind.

1116
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,640
Well, that was pretty good up until the video cut out.

1117
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:16,640
Something he can't afford at the test speed of 142 miles per hour.

1118
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:21,640
For some reason, we've got a lot of interference out here on the lakebed.

1119
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,640
But whatever it is, we've got to go with the plan B.

1120
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,640
Now, we've got a helicopter.

1121
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:31,640
So it's possible that maybe I can control from inside the helicopter.

1122
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:37,640
The key thing here is that the receiver for the video has to be pointed at the car at all times.

1123
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:43,640
But I think what I can do is have Tori aim it at the car as we're flying along

1124
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,640
and make sure I've got video all the time.

1125
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:47,640
At least that's the plan.

1126
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:57,640
This demolition derby is all about crushing, crunching and crashing.

1127
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:07,640
But Adam and Jamie are taking it to a whole new level.

1128
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:16,640
They're using rockets to find out if, under any circumstances, it's possible to pancake a compact so much,

1129
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,640
you lose it in the wreckage of a two-truck collision.

1130
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:27,640
And to do it, New Mexico Tech has lent them their straight-track rocket roller coaster.

1131
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:30,640
Let me spell out for you exactly how this is going to break down.

1132
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:34,640
When we push the launch button from the bunker, this back sled fires,

1133
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:39,640
pushing this front sled down the track to here, where the front sled's rockets kick into gear

1134
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,640
and carry it the rest of the way down the track.

1135
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:46,640
By the time our sled reaches the end of the track here, it ought to be going 700 miles an hour.

1136
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:51,640
It will then leave the track, traveling across 20 feet of open space, where we'll eventually hit our car.

1137
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,640
It's back on the nose.

1138
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,640
Now, the car's backed up against that steel plate in that concrete block,

1139
01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:00,640
and that should simulate our two-truck impact at the speed of sound.

1140
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:05,640
So we've kept you waiting long enough. Let's get down to business.

1141
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:06,640
Are you ready?

1142
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:07,640
I'm ready.

1143
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:08,640
Do you mind if I flip this way?

1144
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:09,640
Go for it.

1145
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:15,640
This is Compact Compact Rocket Sled in three, two, one.

1146
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,640
Holy crap!

1147
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:28,640
That didn't mess around.

1148
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:29,640
Oh, no!

1149
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,640
That second stage was a hell of a thing.

1150
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:35,640
It was like, whoa, it just disappeared.

1151
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,640
Now, that was fast.

1152
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:42,640
Really, really fast.

1153
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,640
That was unlike anything I've seen before.

1154
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:46,640
We've seen plenty of rocket launches.

1155
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:51,640
I'm used to the speed of a rocket, but when the second stage kicked in,

1156
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,640
I was thinking, I've never seen anything go that fast,

1157
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:56,640
and then I realized, actually, that's correct.

1158
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,640
I have never seen anything go that fast.

1159
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:00,640
Three.

1160
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,640
Awesome is such an overused word.

1161
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:03,640
Good.

1162
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,640
But that truly inspired awe.

1163
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:08,640
Holy crap!

1164
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:09,640
And then some.

1165
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:19,640
Incredibly, the spectacle of the launch is matched by the destruction of the rocket's destination.

1166
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,640
Wow, that's a lot flatter than the one out on the runway.

1167
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,640
I wouldn't exactly call it flat.

1168
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,640
It's more like shrapnel.

1169
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,640
What an impossibly large amount of force.

1170
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,640
There's the one-inch plate over there.

1171
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:39,640
Yes, this twisted, folded, and all-around mangled piece of metal...

1172
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:41,640
Look at that!

1173
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,640
...was once a square piece of one-inch-thick steel plate.

1174
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:46,640
I wouldn't have called this.

1175
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,640
It's a freaking potato chip.

1176
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:54,640
For an encore of all...

1177
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,640
Holy crap!

1178
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:58,640
This is eating the car.

1179
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:02,640
And an opportunity to crunch the crucial numbers,

1180
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:07,640
Adam and Jamie check out the aptly-named high-speed footage.

1181
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:08,640
The results are in.

1182
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,640
At the moment of impact, our rocket's lift was traveling at 948 feet per second,

1183
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:15,640
or about 650 miles per hour.

1184
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:19,640
So our goal was to fuse metal and pancake the car.

1185
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:21,640
Did we achieve that?

1186
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:23,640
What car?

1187
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:29,640
As far as whether or not this test pan-kicked the car,

1188
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:33,640
I have to say between looking at this debris and looking at the high-speed shot,

1189
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:35,640
I think we did.

1190
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:41,640
I mean, cut to the accident we created out on the runway of the two semi-tracked trailers.

1191
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,640
And then take a look at this debris.

1192
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:47,640
I feel like this debris could hide in between those two trucks.

1193
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,640
They'd have to be going 30% faster than the commercial airliner,

1194
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,640
but still I believe that we successfully pan-kaked.

1195
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,640
Okay, that's the pan-kaking.

1196
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:03,640
But what about the mythical fusing of the two trucks?

1197
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:08,640
So we had this massive impact that was able to throw around about 50,000 pounds,

1198
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,640
like this block right here.

1199
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:14,640
Yet I don't really think that we got anything like a nice clean fusion.

1200
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:19,640
That implies a well, you know, nice little surface that stuck one to the other.

1201
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:23,640
This is more like, you know, a bomb went off.

1202
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:29,640
So this is what it takes to successfully squish a car so small

1203
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:33,640
it could be lost inside the wreckage of two trucks.

1204
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:39,640
But like Jamie said, there was no fusion, and that means they're not done yet.

1205
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:43,640
If we're going to achieve fusion, we need something that is somehow more controlled

1206
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,640
than what we got in this case.

1207
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,640
Don't go away after the break.

1208
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:49,640
It just keeps getting a little more exciting.

1209
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:52,640
Carrie Grant and Tori take it to a whole new level.

1210
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,640
Cars being lifted off the ground.

1211
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:02,640
Then Adam and Jamie meld metal by numbers.

1212
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:16,640
The Mojave. It's a spectacular location for a spectacular experiment.

1213
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:22,640
Look, Mom, no hands!

1214
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:26,640
This is going to be nuts if they can pull it off.

1215
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,640
Have you been drinking, Grant?

1216
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:34,640
Because Carrie, Grant and Tori are having problems with the video feed to the radio controlled car.

1217
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,640
Well, that was pretty good up until the video cut out.

1218
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:43,640
So it's time to invoke the Mythbusters patron saint, the second letter of the alphabet, and its magical plan.

1219
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,640
So we've got our plan B. We've got the helicopter.

1220
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:53,640
But to be honest, if this doesn't work, it's pretty much game over. There is no plan C.

1221
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:59,640
Really, really crossing our fingers here, but we think tracking the car with the antenna in the helicopter

1222
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:03,640
and Grant doing a video feed from the helicopter chasing the car

1223
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:06,640
might actually get us to the finish line.

1224
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,640
You ready, Grant? Thanks, Sal.

1225
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:13,640
The worst could happen. You could lose control on the car flip.

1226
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:18,640
Now the antenna is directional. You can't just hook it to the helicopter and it'll work.

1227
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:20,640
Alright, here we go.

1228
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:24,640
I'm going to have to actually hold it and point the antenna at the car as we're following it.

1229
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:29,640
So that way Grant gets a signal and he'll be in the backseat remotely controlling the car,

1230
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:35,640
looking at the video system, trying to keep it on the line, trying to get it up to speed so we can make it to the X.

1231
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:37,640
This is going to be sick.

1232
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:42,640
In addition to testing the new setup, Grant will be doing a top speed test.

1233
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:52,640
Remember, in the commercial, over the race distance of 4,000 feet, the car on the ground was going 142 miles per hour.

1234
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:59,640
Our car is capable of the same speed, but can it do it out here and can Grant control it?

1235
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:03,640
Three, two, one. Here we go.

1236
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:08,640
Bestie.

1237
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,640
It's 65.

1238
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,640
72.

1239
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,640
80 miles an hour.

1240
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:16,640
90.

1241
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:18,640
97.

1242
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:20,640
100 miles an hour.

1243
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,640
105.

1244
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:26,640
Still on target. 105 miles an hour.

1245
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,640
105 miles an hour.

1246
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:35,640
Two, three, go.

1247
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:40,640
So we just did our test with the helicopter and I gotta say, it went great.

1248
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:45,640
Which means we're doing the final experiment, fracking the car from the helicopter.

1249
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:47,640
It just keeps getting a little more exciting.

1250
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:49,640
Exciting? Sure.

1251
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,640
But what about the top speed issue?

1252
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:55,640
Now before we move on to our final test, there's one more thing I have to do.

1253
01:13:55,640 --> 01:14:02,640
Because the car only goes 105 miles an hour here on the dry lake bed, maybe because it's so bumpy or whatever,

1254
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,640
it's not the same top speed as the car in the commercial.

1255
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:14,640
So I've gotta do a little math and figure out an equivalent distance to start the car so that it compensates for this difference in speed.

1256
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:16,640
And here's how it breaks down.

1257
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:24,640
In the commercial, the car is moving at 142 miles per hour over 4,000 feet, which takes 19.2 seconds.

1258
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,640
105 miles per hour.

1259
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:34,640
But moving at 105 miles per hour in 19.2 seconds, you'd travel a fraction over...

1260
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:38,640
2,950 feet.

1261
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:43,640
So while 2,950 feet is the race distance for the car on the ground...

1262
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,640
So this is our new start mark.

1263
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:50,640
The falling car will still be dropped from 4,000 feet.

1264
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:56,640
And tasked with taking the car almost a mile in the air is the Sikorsky,

1265
01:14:56,640 --> 01:15:03,640
capable of lifting 5,000 pounds and reaching an altitude of 16,000 feet.

1266
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:07,640
In the chopper world, this puppy is top dog.

1267
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,640
Alright, this is it. Final experiment. Let's go for the plan.

1268
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:12,640
Okay, well the speed test went really well.

1269
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:17,640
I can hold a steady 105 miles an hour and I can see the car and control it great from the chopper.

1270
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:22,640
Alright, well I reset the start mark on the course so that it's as if we're going 142 miles an hour.

1271
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,640
And I can actually see you guys cross the start line from the big helicopter

1272
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,640
and I can trigger the car drop at exactly the same time.

1273
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:29,640
And that's it.

1274
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,640
If we can pull this off, this is gonna be insane.

1275
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:34,640
I'll see you at the finish line!

1276
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,640
Now if we see you first!

1277
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:38,640
So the team splits into two.

1278
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:45,640
Carrie hooks up with the heavy lifting team while Grant and Tori load up somewhat nervously in the chase chopper.

1279
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,640
So the start line has been moved.

1280
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:54,640
The car is fully prepped. The helicopter's ready to go.

1281
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,640
I'm just not sure if I'm ready to go.

1282
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,640
You're all buckled in. Good job.

1283
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,640
I'm all buckled in and ready to go.

1284
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:10,640
It's a lot to take in and 100 things have to go right all at the same time for this to go well.

1285
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:17,640
But only one or two things have to go wrong and it goes horribly wrong.

1286
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:26,640
So I'm just gonna take a few deep breaths and make sure my steering thumb is good to go.

1287
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,640
Can you really get any cooler than this?

1288
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,640
There's a pretty mighty chopper there.

1289
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:33,640
Control the car straight down the course.

1290
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:38,640
Just be in the moment, be in the zen of the whole thing and make sure I get to the target.

1291
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:42,640
All those years of video games are gonna pay off now.

1292
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:43,640
Good job.

1293
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:45,640
Yeah!

1294
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,640
There it goes.

1295
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:48,640
Here we go.

1296
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:50,640
Wow.

1297
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:52,640
That's mighty.

1298
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:58,640
I am so excited about my role in the final experiment because not only do I get to control the car drop itself,

1299
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,640
I get to see the whole thing in action.

1300
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,640
I get to see the speeding car with the tracking helicopter.

1301
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:07,640
I get to see the car drop and go down into the desert.

1302
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,640
All right, car is being lifted off the ground.

1303
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:12,640
Oh!

1304
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:15,640
Ha ha ha!

1305
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,640
We're now heading over to the drop zone. We've picked up our car.

1306
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:23,640
And now begins the long climb to 4,000 feet.

1307
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:25,640
Okay, we're at 1,000 feet.

1308
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:32,640
Once there, Grant and Tori will assume their start position above the RC car and the race is on.

1309
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:36,640
2,000 feet climbing. About 30 seconds from our start position.

1310
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,640
See the ax?

1311
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:41,640
Yeah, you can still see it. It's tiny.

1312
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:46,640
Okay, we're 4,000 feet and directly above the target zone. Ready for the drop.

1313
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:49,640
Grant, in your own time, start driving.

1314
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:57,640
It's the Mythbusters demolition derby.

1315
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:02,640
And Adam and Jamie have more than compacted their compact.

1316
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,640
But where did all this start?

1317
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:14,640
It all started with a myth about two semi-attractor trailers that hit each other on the freeway with such force that they fused together and crunched a car between them that couldn't be found for several days.

1318
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:18,640
We tried the experiment full-scale a few years ago and they might get it right.

1319
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:23,640
We were able to try again for this episode and got it mostly right but we still didn't get a car between them and we didn't get them fused together.

1320
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:32,640
So we ramped up the speed, posted the speed of sound and while we did get a pink car we did not get the fused metal so we come back to New Mexico Tech and they're going to show us what fusing metal is all about.

1321
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:34,640
This looks perfect.

1322
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:42,640
We were unable to fuse metal with our head-on collisions but apparently there is a process by which one can bond metals using an impact.

1323
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:45,640
It's called explosive welding.

1324
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:52,640
Unlike the testing we were doing earlier which is pretty much chaos, explosive welding is a precision process.

1325
01:18:52,640 --> 01:19:02,640
We're going to take this plate, put it on top of the other at a specific distance, apply explosives in a very precise way and that will get the job done.

1326
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:10,640
So essentially they'll be using 500 pounds of high explosive to literally push the steel plates into each other.

1327
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:19,640
And safely hunkered in the bunker it's time to well buy numbers and those numbers are...

1328
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,640
Three, two, one...

1329
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,640
Wow! That was a thud!

1330
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:39,640
It was bigger than I expected from that innocuous box of white powder that we set up down there.

1331
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:49,640
From that innocuous box of white powder to one of the coolest shots we've ever seen on Mythbusters.

1332
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:52,640
There's the shockwave. I never get tired of seeing that.

1333
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:56,640
Look, look, look, you can even see the shadow of the shockwave there on the ground.

1334
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:02,640
Looks like there's a lot of stuff that's kind of spraying out all around the ground at the same time as we're shooting up.

1335
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,640
It's going to be like a potato chip I think.

1336
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,640
You were right, it is a little potato chippy.

1337
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:13,640
I couldn't very well imagine it. It stays straight like it was to start.

1338
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:22,640
Oh, yeah, if you take a look at the side here it's quite clear that the total thickness is less than the combined thickness of the two sheets when we started.

1339
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,640
Yeah, it looks like it's like clay.

1340
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:33,640
Just to give you an idea about how much force was involved in that explosion, I'm standing at ground zero of where that explosion occurred.

1341
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:41,640
It's about a three foot deep crater and interesting note, this is very similar to the crater that Jamie created when he first came to Earth.

1342
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:47,640
Well, that there was one heck of a lot of destruction in Mayhem we created in pursuit of this myth.

1343
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:48,640
I'll say.

1344
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:49,640
Well, where does that leave us?

1345
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:53,640
Well, we proved that it is possible to pancake a compact car.

1346
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,640
Although you'd have to go close to the speed of sand to do it.

1347
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:59,640
And we've proven that you can fuse two pieces of steel together.

1348
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,640
You need about 500 pounds of high explosive to do that.

1349
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:08,640
And since none of those things happen on any highway or freeway I've ever driven on, I think we have to call this one.

1350
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:09,640
Busted.

1351
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,640
Yeah, busted. Again, busted.

1352
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:15,640
Next.

1353
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:16,640
It's time for you now.

1354
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:18,640
Our well-drilled platoon.

1355
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:20,640
Cars away, cars away.

1356
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:21,640
What's the speed, Grant?

1357
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:22,640
45.

1358
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:26,640
Attempt to pull off their biggest myth mission ever.

1359
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:30,640
Dropping in three, two, one.

1360
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,640
Release the car.

1361
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:33,640
Here she goes.

1362
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:47,640
Carrie Grant and Tori are about to test one of Mythbusters' biggest stories ever.

1363
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:49,640
All right, looks like they're over the X.

1364
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:50,640
Yeah, looks good.

1365
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:55,640
And here's Grant with the lowdown on their high-flying car drop experiments.

1366
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:57,640
So this is the main event.

1367
01:21:57,640 --> 01:21:59,640
This is the final experiment.

1368
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:01,640
And here is the setup.

1369
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:07,640
I will be in the small helicopter controlling the driving car with a remote control link and a remote video link.

1370
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:09,640
Time's being now.

1371
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:15,640
Tori will be in the chopper with me, pointing the directional receiver antenna at the car at all times.

1372
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:19,640
We'll chase the car down the track as I drive towards the start line.

1373
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:24,640
Hit the start line at our top speed of 105 miles an hour.

1374
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:31,640
At the same time, Carrie will be in the big chopper hauling the drop car over to the drop zone.

1375
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:35,640
We're at 4,000 feet and directly above the target zone, ready for the drop.

1376
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:43,640
When we hit the start line, she'll be over the X, she'll release the car, and then we'll see which one gets to the target first.

1377
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:48,640
And so, with everyone in position, the countdown to counting backwards begins.

1378
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:52,640
OK, here we go. Three, two, one.

1379
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:56,640
Car is away, car is away.

1380
01:22:56,640 --> 01:22:58,640
What's the speed, Grant?

1381
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:00,640
45, 45 miles an hour.

1382
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:02,640
Looking good, 60 miles an hour.

1383
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:06,640
The stress and practice from yesterday seems to be paying off.

1384
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:08,640
70, looking great.

1385
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:13,640
Grant and Tori are keeping the car on track, and they're picking up speed nicely.

1386
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,640
You're coming into view, Grant. I can see you guys down there.

1387
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,640
80. Car is looking good. We're going straight for the X.

1388
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:23,640
We're about a thousand feet from the start marks.

1389
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:25,640
We're at 95 miles an hour.

1390
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:27,640
OK, on target.

1391
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,640
Looking good, Grant. Looking good.

1392
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:31,640
Stand by.

1393
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,640
Coming up to the mark soon. OK.

1394
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:35,640
500 feet.

1395
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:37,640
105, holding 105.

1396
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,640
Coming in three, two, one.

1397
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,640
Release the car.

1398
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,640
And the race is on.

1399
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,640
Here it comes, 105.

1400
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:50,640
Holding 105.

1401
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:53,640
Here comes the car. Holding 105.

1402
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,640
Woo!

1403
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:58,640
There's hits to down the target. Coming up.

1404
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,640
We're going in. We're going in.

1405
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:02,640
We're going in.

1406
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:07,640
That was spectacular, and the result was there for all to see.

1407
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:09,640
We're going in. We're going in.

1408
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,640
There's hits to down the target. Coming up.

1409
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:18,640
Unlike the commercial, the falling car hit the ground more than two seconds before the driving car crossed the target.

1410
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:27,640
And despite being back on the ground, it's quite obvious the team's adrenaline levels are still sky high.

1411
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:29,640
We did it!

1412
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:31,640
Yes! Yes!

1413
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:35,640
OK, I'm not going to say like, Luke down the Death Star trench.

1414
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,640
You drove across the freaking X.

1415
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:42,640
Thank you. But it was like Luke down the Death Star trench under the X-Cup Zone. Yeah!

1416
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:46,640
Here it comes. We're in the fall helicopter. The car is going. We're trying to get up to speed.

1417
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:51,640
I'm like, Grant, how fast are we going now? We're at 40 miles an hour. How fast are we now? 60 miles an hour.

1418
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:55,640
We have to get up to 105. The mark is getting closer. We get up to like 90.

1419
01:24:55,640 --> 01:25:00,640
We're maybe about a thousand feet away. We get to 105 miles an hour. We hit the mark.

1420
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:06,640
The car is released and I could see the car falling and I could see the car driving.

1421
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:12,640
And all of a sudden it was like, boom, the car falling hits and then the Grant's car goes over the X.

1422
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:16,640
We did it!

1423
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,640
I was less excited after my first kiss.

1424
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:27,640
So aside from denting the ego of Carrie's first boyfriend, you could say this experiment went spectacularly well.

1425
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:33,640
That's what happens when you drop a car from a helicopter and try to beat it with the car on the ground.

1426
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,640
Look at this. The rim is detached from the tire.

1427
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,640
And the tire's still standing.

1428
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:43,640
And all that's left to do is head on back to the shop for a rundown of the breakdown.

1429
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,640
If we didn't wreck all the cars, we wouldn't have to walk home.

1430
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:47,640
That's true.

1431
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,640
Do you have enough water to make it out for that mountain?

1432
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:52,640
No. We'll be dead before we even get to the mountain.

1433
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:54,640
Okay, so how do we call this?

1434
01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:59,640
Well, ultimately I think the fans are going to point out that we didn't use the exact same cars in the commercial,

1435
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:02,640
although our cars were effectively identical.

1436
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:07,640
Yeah, and you know what? We're also probably going to get emails saying that we didn't film on the same day as the commercial was,

1437
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:11,640
which means the air currents would have been different, which would have given us a different result.

1438
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:15,640
Okay, well, while we can't draw a firm conclusion about the commercial for those reasons,

1439
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,640
we can say a few things from our data.

1440
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:20,640
First of all, our car fell differently.

1441
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,640
Second, it hit the ground 300 feet from the X.

1442
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,640
And third, well, it hit the ground before the driving car crossed the X.

1443
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,640
In other words, in our recreation, everything was busted.

1444
01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:31,640
Busted.

1445
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:32,640
Busted.

1446
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,640
You know what? Assuming that all cars fall in the same way,

1447
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:40,640
the only way you would be able to beat a falling car is if you were to use a Formula One race car.

1448
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:41,640
Okay, so let's get one.

1449
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:42,640
I call driver.

1450
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:44,640
That you said it was too dangerous to drive.

1451
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:46,640
No, I said it was too dangerous for you to drive.

1452
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,640
So the demolition derby is done.

1453
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:04,640
And all that's left to do is confirm that, yes, automobiles were hurt in the making of this program.

1454
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:15,640
May they rest in pieces.

1455
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:22,640
The car drop has got to be the biggest myth we've ever busted.

1456
01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:27,640
Yeah, there was so much preparation for that, and a lot of it didn't even fit into the episode.

1457
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:30,640
Well, if you want to see the rest, go to discovery.com.