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13 avtomifov. Check
1. If the exhaust pipe plug, the engine fails.
All used when checking the items immediately flew out of the exhaust pipe after starting the engine. If the cork tightly exhaust manifold, the engine will stall just 5-10 seconds.
2. If a bullet strikes the gas tank, it will explode.
The myth has been refuted by experiments with ordinary bullets, but then partially confirmed by using tracer - from a tank really exploded.
3. The door can protect the car in a shootout.
The car body is made of a thin - 0.4-0, 7 mm - metal sheet, can not stop a bullet. Just helpless and interior trim panels. Pistol bullets .38 breaks through the door. The only exception - the speaker mounted on the door a sufficiently large diameter - 9 inches or more. It is able to stop a bullet magnet, or force it to change direction.
4. The engine will be damaged if the gas tank to pour the sugar.
In the experiment, the tank spilled about 10 kilograms of sugar, the engine will continue running - only smoke from the chimney became black. Together with the gasoline engine will inevitably fall into foreign impurities: water, rust, additives - all of it is either burned or excreted in the exhaust gases.
5. Sports cars 70s had better aerodynamics rear than the front.
Body appropriate car was deployed, blown in the wind tunnel and tested in motion. Especially increased fuel consumption.
6. The car can "jump" over long distances using a bunch of land as a springboard, and land with minimal damage and no loss of speed.
During the experiment, the car flew 30 meters and crashed into the ground radiator, damaging the engine.
7. A person may leave the car had fallen into the water after a water glass cover.
The water pressure on the door is too high, it is impossible to open it from the inside, as well as glass and lower handle or electric motor.
8. The vehicle can drive through the ranks of the vegetable market, and stay on track (as shown in the movie).
In the experiment, the car dragged through the market at a speed of 70 miles per hour (about 110 km / h). The camera on the roof came off, the car turned out to be seriously dented. Windshield cracks covered with mesh, the driver can not see anything.
9. If you hold the steering wheel grip recommended "ten to two", when the air bag inflates tear thumbs.
In the experiment with artificial hand wheel to escape from them, but his fingers survived.
10. Police Radar, you can cheat by placing a windscreen CD.
No CD, no mirror disk on the roof or car cover foil could not dull the vigilance radar detector. Even jingling bunch of keys did not help. Using aircraft stealth coatings are not checked, since this paint with the addition of iron hard and insanely expensive - cheaper to pay the fines.
11. The use of different substances and tricks can fool a breathalyzer.
To check Adam Savage drank two servings of whiskey and Jamie Hyneman - a cocktail of vodka and cranberry juice. In both cases, the device showed the presence of alcohol in breath. In addition, the police can always ask for a blood test. Using liquid mouthwash will only increase the amount of alcohol in the breath.
12. If during the refueling car talking on a cell phone, may cause an explosion.
Experimentally proved that the phone is not working can cause an explosion, even when surrounded by gasoline vapors in a concentration sufficient for ignition. The real threat is static charge on clothes, which can save several times sat in the car and left it.
13. The collision of two cars at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour takes place with the same force as a car collision with the wall at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
The force acting on the car will be the same as in a collision with another vehicle or with a stationary wall.
All used when checking the items immediately flew out of the exhaust pipe after starting the engine. If the cork tightly exhaust manifold, the engine will stall just 5-10 seconds.
2. If a bullet strikes the gas tank, it will explode.
The myth has been refuted by experiments with ordinary bullets, but then partially confirmed by using tracer - from a tank really exploded.
3. The door can protect the car in a shootout.
The car body is made of a thin - 0.4-0, 7 mm - metal sheet, can not stop a bullet. Just helpless and interior trim panels. Pistol bullets .38 breaks through the door. The only exception - the speaker mounted on the door a sufficiently large diameter - 9 inches or more. It is able to stop a bullet magnet, or force it to change direction.
4. The engine will be damaged if the gas tank to pour the sugar.
In the experiment, the tank spilled about 10 kilograms of sugar, the engine will continue running - only smoke from the chimney became black. Together with the gasoline engine will inevitably fall into foreign impurities: water, rust, additives - all of it is either burned or excreted in the exhaust gases.
5. Sports cars 70s had better aerodynamics rear than the front.
Body appropriate car was deployed, blown in the wind tunnel and tested in motion. Especially increased fuel consumption.
6. The car can "jump" over long distances using a bunch of land as a springboard, and land with minimal damage and no loss of speed.
During the experiment, the car flew 30 meters and crashed into the ground radiator, damaging the engine.
7. A person may leave the car had fallen into the water after a water glass cover.
The water pressure on the door is too high, it is impossible to open it from the inside, as well as glass and lower handle or electric motor.
8. The vehicle can drive through the ranks of the vegetable market, and stay on track (as shown in the movie).
In the experiment, the car dragged through the market at a speed of 70 miles per hour (about 110 km / h). The camera on the roof came off, the car turned out to be seriously dented. Windshield cracks covered with mesh, the driver can not see anything.
9. If you hold the steering wheel grip recommended "ten to two", when the air bag inflates tear thumbs.
In the experiment with artificial hand wheel to escape from them, but his fingers survived.
10. Police Radar, you can cheat by placing a windscreen CD.
No CD, no mirror disk on the roof or car cover foil could not dull the vigilance radar detector. Even jingling bunch of keys did not help. Using aircraft stealth coatings are not checked, since this paint with the addition of iron hard and insanely expensive - cheaper to pay the fines.
11. The use of different substances and tricks can fool a breathalyzer.
To check Adam Savage drank two servings of whiskey and Jamie Hyneman - a cocktail of vodka and cranberry juice. In both cases, the device showed the presence of alcohol in breath. In addition, the police can always ask for a blood test. Using liquid mouthwash will only increase the amount of alcohol in the breath.
12. If during the refueling car talking on a cell phone, may cause an explosion.
Experimentally proved that the phone is not working can cause an explosion, even when surrounded by gasoline vapors in a concentration sufficient for ignition. The real threat is static charge on clothes, which can save several times sat in the car and left it.
13. The collision of two cars at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour takes place with the same force as a car collision with the wall at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
The force acting on the car will be the same as in a collision with another vehicle or with a stationary wall.
