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[narrator] On this episode
of How Tech Works.
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We get a lift from
this taxi driver.
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You haven't lost anybody yet
have you?
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No. [laughs]
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At the speed of 180 miles
an hour.
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Hi there.
I am Basil Singer
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and I advise you
to strap yourself in,
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because you're in
for a wild ride of a show.
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We're going to fly a jet
fighter plane and...
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we'll find out just how much
G-force one human can withstand.
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But first I want to
take you back
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to childhood.
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Now remember the absolute joy
of playing with a new toy.
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Well our intrepid reporter
Mark Miller,
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knows that feeling well.
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As you're about to see
from his encounter with a toy
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that is literally larger
than life.
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All the way to Japan,
Mark discovers two engineers
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with a passion for giant,
mechanized monsters.
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Their latest invention
stands three meters tall.
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Weighs as much as a car,
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and walks upright
on two legs.
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They call it
'The land walker'.
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And it's the ultimate
monster toy.
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If you want high-tech
cool gadgets,
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then you know this,
is the place.
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In Japan they've got
their super trains,
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their amazing robots,
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Konnichiwa!
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and now this.
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What can only be described
as a life size transformer.
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He's the land walker.
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The creation of two guys
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who built agricultural machines
in the farm country
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northwest of Tokyo.
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Sakakakibara Kiaki is
a family run company.
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that has found itself using
more and more automation
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to make farming in this area
more efficient.
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After the guys designed
their last robotic tractor,
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they found themselves
drafting plans
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for the world's
first land walker.
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Ultimately it's a giant
machine powered by
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a mere 250 horsepower
motorcycle engine.
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[metallic rustling]
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That's not the only thing
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that makes this
machine super cool.
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Now it's really important
to remember that this
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is a company that specializes
in building autonomous robots.
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But when the engineer started
building this thing they knew
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to maximize the fun factor
with this thing,
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it would need a pilot.
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This is not a robot or
a remote control toy.
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This is a fully wearable
walking machine.
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He want to be on,
right on the robot and drive.
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That's why he wanted to make.
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It's the world's first consumer
exoskeleton.
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I don't know if you can
play TV game, you know,
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that you can drive.
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Land walker is as tall
as a house
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and as heavy as a car.
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It is a complex system
of actuators, levers,
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wheels and brakes.
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All computer controlled
to produce that walking motion.
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Now the engineers claim
that pretty much anybody
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can drive this thing.
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But before they let
me take the stick,
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they say I gotta go through
a little training.
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[shrieking and laughing]
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[both laughing]
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Okay, I am not ready
for that one.
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[motor running]
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OK, so I didn't wreck it.
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With a passing grade
on the mini exoskeleton,
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it's time to move up
to the heavy metal.
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Is this thing designed to take
my kind of weight?
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Back, back. OK.
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Left,
turn uh right, turn left.
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Just in case of a tip toe.
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Here we go.
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Driving this monster is
surprisingly easy.
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Although all that shuffling
back and forth means
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the ride isn't as comfortable
as it looks.
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It's easy to turn
but it's hard to walk straight.
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Getting the exoskeleton
to walk was one of the hardest
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engineering challenges
with this machine.
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A computer controls a complex
series of actuators
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that alternate brakes
on wheeled feet
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as one leg slides forward
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the other stays locked in place.
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But by far this is
my favorite feature.
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Two rubber ball cannons.
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Now you're about to meet
a woman named Sabine.
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with an amazing job.
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You see Sabine is a taxi driver
but not just any taxi,
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Sabine drives people around
on one of the worlds
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most famous race tracks.
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At speeds of up to
180 miles an hour
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we call her queen
of the Nurburgring.
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The town of Nurburg.
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Home to one of the most
dangerous and challenging
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race tracks in the world.
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The Nurburg ring.
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It's a very special day here.
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Race fans are putting on
race suits.
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I think I am gonna have more
trouble getting into this suit
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than I am
actually driving the car.
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The fans are going to be
rocketed around the Nurburging
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by pro drivers in fast cars
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called race taxis.
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There we go. No problem.
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James Dowling is
a website editor from London.
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His taxi fare covers two laps
and costs about 800 pounds.
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And his cabby
is no Sunday driver.
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Hey!
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-So you're my date right?
-Yes.
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[laughs]
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My name is Sabine Schmitz
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and my job is to drive people
around the track,
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around the Nurburgring.
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They call her the queen
of the Nurburg ring.
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She's won loads of races here.
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broken many speed records,
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basically she's a
pretty big deal.
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Surprisingly she is also a bit
of a country bumpkin.
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She's got lots of animals.
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Sabina grew up in Nurburg
and learned about
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horsepower at an early age.
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I took my mom's car and
did some laps in a BMW
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on the track.
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Without license, shh,
don't tell anyone.
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but then I thought by myself,
it's really
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such a great track
it's so much fun.
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And then I decided to
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start my racing career
as soon as possible.
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The ring surrounds the town
of Nurburg.
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Fifteen miles of
angulating ysvled, steep hills
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and sharp turns that generate
powerful G forces.
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A severe test for any driver.
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If your car is not in shape,
it won't survive.
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Sabina's car is in great shape.
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My race taxi is at the moment
a Porsche GT3RS.
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The newest model.
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My ring taxi job
is so special.
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Who has a track like this?
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Who has a car like this?
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I know exactly what I have to
do to scare the people.
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Sometimes fast is boring
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but I can drive with
lots of corner weights
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where people get
bumped in the car,
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then it's even more
exciting for them.
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I am sure I'll probably survive.
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You haven't lost
anybody yet, have you?
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[laughs]
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Nine of these fans have tickets
to ride with Sabina.
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James is up first.
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I don't need to breathe out
do I?
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[car accelerating]
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The people are very different.
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I had one guy who was
screaming the whole lap.
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He says he can't breathe,
he was just screaming!
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[screams]
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It was so funny.
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Sometimes I can't drive because
I am laughing and crying.
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From laughing and
I can't see the track anymore.
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Sometimes it's very dangerous
for me as well.
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Take care of your balls.
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[laughs]
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This is a road car so it still
has ABS and stuff?
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Yeah, only the ABS.
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The rest...
we don't need traction control.
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I've got traction control
in my butt, you know!
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[laughs]
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Sabina is at the front
of the pack.
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So you can't see
any other cars.
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The main sensation is not
the speed it's the G forces.
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Yeah, even the car goes
uh-uh-uh.
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Sabina's driven so many laps
she knows almost every bump.
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Brake! Brake! Bump!
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How many laps have you done?
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30 thousand.
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You never get bored.
It's impossible
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Little bumps are new here,
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then we got new
tarmac over there.
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On the second time round she's
already lapping other cars.
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Ah, come on let's eat a BMW!
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Yeah, don't hold me up!
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James's race taxi ride
comes to an end.
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Sabina drove 30 miles
in about 18 minutes.
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Thank you my love,
that was wonderful.
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We'll be right back with more
How Tech Works .
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Welcome back to How Tech Works .
I am Basil Singer.
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Now while we're still
on the adrenaline rush
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from all those high speed laps
around the track.
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There's only one sensible thing
to do now
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and that's go faster yet.
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When it comes to speed humans
can't travel much faster
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than the sound barrier
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And that's exactly
what fighter pilots must do
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every time they take
to the skies.
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So let's take a look
behind the scenes,
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of a machine that
puts fighter pilots
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to the ultimate speed test.
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Being a fighter pilot
is prestigious,
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glamorous and grueling.
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They scream through the air
faster than the speed of sound.
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And inside the
cockpit they endure
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excruciating G forces.
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Hold that breath.
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One more breath.
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This gig is part guts,
part glory.
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And these recruits want to
get in on the game.
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Before they can fly
they've got to prove
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they've got what it
takes to survive
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in a high G environment.
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Feels like a giant is squeezing
your whole body.
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And yeah that was just
a weird sensation.
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This is the navy's aviation
survival training center.
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We maximize the survivability
of the war fighter.
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That's what we do.
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[narrator] When fighter pilots
make fast turns
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they experience forces
that can be as large
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as 9 times gravity.
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I weigh roughly 200 pounds.
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Like a mac truck is sitting
on you.
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The rookies are learning how
these forces affect the body.
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Hearts are designed
to pump blood
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to our heads at one G.
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Not 7, 8, 9 gs.
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so it lacks the capacity
to do so.
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It has troubles.
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Obviously when blood isn't
getting to the brain,
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the pilot is going to
pass out.
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So we have a technique called
the anti-G strain maneuver,
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so that they can stay
conscious all the way up
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in these high G levels.
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They've got to force blood
to the brain,
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by contracting their muscles
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and doing a special
breathing technique.
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They'll practice inside
this centrifuge.
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Profile is running.
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And you will feel the gradual
onset of gs right about now.
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During that onset,
when the Gs come on,
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that's when the most fluid shift
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when the most blood from your
head down is going to happen.
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and it's really important
that you do everything you can
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to restrict that from happening.
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Legs, breath, hold it,
you're on top, breathe.
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Wait for me sir! Breathe.
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So you'll hear us say
the command - legs.
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That means to tighten up
the legs. Breath.
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when we say breath we want you
to initiate, then lock it down,
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so you're squeezing your legs,
you've locked down your air
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and you're increasing
that pressure
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in order to restrict
that fluid from shifting.
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Right now all they care about
is staying conscious.
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Once they get in the jet
it'll be a lot tougher.
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They'll have to make critical
combat decisions too.
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Stay on those abs.
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Then at about three seconds
we go ahead...
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have them relax,
the blood runs out
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your heart is able to
beat normally.
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About one good time,
get some good fresh
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oxygenated blood up about here.
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and then you continually
do this on and on.
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7.5 is next - you gotta give me
all you got.
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These crazy facial expressions
are common.
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And let's be honest,
pretty hilarious.
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Like you're constipated
and on the toilet.
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Essentially you're doing
the same thing.
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[narrator] It does look funny,
but it hurts like hell.
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It's like wrestling a bear.
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Kind of like a 90 minute workout
in ten minutes.
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my feet have cramps in them
from tightening so hard.
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[narrator] Back in the trainer
Ensign Harry Davis is prepping
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for one of the toughest
exercises.
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So whenever you are
feeling up to it,
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start slowly turning your head.
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In a combat scenario fighter
pilots will turn
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to see their enemies.
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[narrator] This posture makes
it a lot harder to pull off
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the anti G strain maneuver.
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Legs. Breath. Hold it.
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Get those glutes.
One more time.
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And coming down.
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And we're there,
you can let go of the stick.
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Wow that was a little fast.
It's done!
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It's done.
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[man] Nice job.
You wanna go again?
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[man] What? Yeah.
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[man] Nah we're good.
We're going to bring you home.
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Nice job!
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Am I swirling?
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That's crazy.
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You have to really be careful
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otherwise you could wind up
unconscious like that.
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Really bad.
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That's exactly what
the instructors want to hear.
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People come back and tell us
"What you did saved my life".
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Today's lesson was agonizing.
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But you know the saying
no pain no gain.
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I would say this,
if flying was as painful
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as this machine,
people would not fly.
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That being said when
they complete it
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they then have the confidence
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that I can take anything
the aircraft can dish out
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and I am doing it right.
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Finally when it comes
to world records,
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this has got to be up there
with some of the strangest
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The world's fastest
mobility scooter.
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I ask you,
who wouldn't want to meet
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the guy who created
this category?
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And then went ahead
and built it.
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Anyway, his name is
Colin Furze and...
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well let's just say Colin
wants to put his money
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where his mouth is
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Step up to the plate,
throw down the ultimate gauntlet
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by racing an airplane
with his mobility scooter.
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No saying it out loud doesn't
make it any less strange.
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Check this out.
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This is the beginning
of an epic race.
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You've got to see it
to believe it.
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Master pilot vs Colin.
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He's got no chance.
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Feast your eyes on
the world's fastest
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mobility scooter.
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71.5 miles an hour.
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A hundred and fifty kilometers
for the metric people.
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Colin Furze is England's modern
day Evil Knievel.
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He's conquered the wall
of death.
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Become a human motorboat...
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and lit up the night sky
on more than one occasion.
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Now he's created
this beast.
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Everyone said that can keep
up with cars on the motorway
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and things like that.
Yeah it can, can't it.
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But of course you can't
ride this on the motorway
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against cars.
It's not legal,
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so I thought the next best thing
surely is to race a plane
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up a runway.
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Some people might not
want to try it.
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But I think it's alright.
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It definitely takes,
how to put this,
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a specific breed of person.
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Mad.
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Done a risk assessment.
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We've assessed there is risk,
and we will ignore it.
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[laughs]
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Me and the people in my head.
The people I speak to.
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[laughs]
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Today's attempt starts
with a donation.
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There's a shop in
town where I live
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and the shop owner is a fan of
my videos, watches all me stuff.
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[narrator] And he gave Colin
this beauty.
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I just remember looking at it
and just thinking...
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how fast we can get
that thing to go.
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That sort of thing,
as you do.
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I suppose I had one of them
male moments.
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"It's not fast enough",
sort of thing.
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And took it from there really.
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[narrator] The original is
the scooter equivalent
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of a larder.
Not exactly a speed demon.
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So Colin had to soup it up
to Ferrari status.
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'Cause everybody asks
the same question,
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"Are you an engineer?"
"Have you ever been to college
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or anything like that?"
And I haven't, I am a plumber.
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[narrator] A plumber with a
knack for clever engineering.
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Here we have
the 125 motorbike engine.
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It was really quite
tight to package in
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cause I had to fit it
all in this housing.
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The exhaust pipe is the
most difficult bit
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because normally
on the motorbike
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it would come twisting out here
and disappear off to the back.
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These are the gear shifters.
Shift up, shift down.
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All the linkage and everything
underneath
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and if I just flip it up
underneath,
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you can see the cooling system
under here laid flat,
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which doesn't work very
well but it does work.
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To a certain degree.
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And that's it, you are not going
to go off roading on it.
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Off roading - no,
on runway - yes.
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I've never been
in this position before.
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I am in a mobility scooter,
20 foot from a plane.
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Oh I'll beat him easily.
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I always win.
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Very determined.
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On your mark.
Get set.
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Colin's faster off the block.
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[Colin] Slight steering
movements at high speed do have
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a big impression on what
you're doing so...
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You really do have to
concentrate on just keeping it
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in a straight line.
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I remember thinking
dip your head down
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and you might go a bit faster
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and of course I tried to dip
my head down and ended up
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fishtailing all over the place!
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[narrator] Oh look,
it's even Steven now.
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No helmet. That's health
and safety gone mad.
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Do not try this at home.
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If I have a helmet on
it's gonna...
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I don't know I just don't think
it'll look as good.
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00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,030
Luckily he is wearing one piece
of safety gear.
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00:21:08,463 --> 00:21:10,065
This is my safety tie.
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00:21:11,867 --> 00:21:15,671
It came about 4 years Ag
when I rode the wall of death.
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After riding a lot of
people on YouTube,
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00:21:18,006 --> 00:21:20,576
particularly it was someone
from Canada actually.
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00:21:20,609 --> 00:21:23,378
A guy called Chuck and he said
"It's your safety tie".
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00:21:23,679 --> 00:21:25,247
And I kind of thought,
yeah it is, isn't it.
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00:21:25,447 --> 00:21:28,083
So ever since then
on all my videos
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I've always worn the same
clothes - this shirt and tie!
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00:21:31,286 --> 00:21:32,921
Thank goodness for that tie.
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00:21:33,522 --> 00:21:35,858
Kept Colin safe
right to the finish.
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[laughs]
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00:21:40,495 --> 00:21:42,297
It was surprising
he kept up with me.
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Fair contest, obviously
once he gets in the air,
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there's not much I
can do about it.
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00:21:46,802 --> 00:21:48,136
But other than that,
it was fantastic.
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[narrator] In a bizarre way,
this race just confirms
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00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,109
the awesomeness
of Colin's creation.
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Granddad's rock. [laughs]
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[narrator] Do I sense
a bruised ego?
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00:22:01,383 --> 00:22:02,918
Feeling like a loser?
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00:22:03,285 --> 00:22:04,286
No, why?
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00:22:04,419 --> 00:22:06,588
He can't fly... yet.
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00:22:06,622 --> 00:22:08,090
[narrator] Good point.
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00:22:08,123 --> 00:22:09,424
I think it's safe to assume,
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00:22:09,458 --> 00:22:11,226
there's more up these
tweed sleeves.
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00:22:11,927 --> 00:22:13,762
This is a big question moment,
isn't it?
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00:22:13,896 --> 00:22:15,597
I have got some plans
for things.
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00:22:16,164 --> 00:22:18,500
I am not gonna give
too much away.
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00:22:18,767 --> 00:22:20,202
Yeah, watch this space.
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00:22:20,502 --> 00:22:21,503
[engine]
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00:22:23,405 --> 00:22:25,574
Well that's all the time
we've got for today.
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Thank you very much
for watching
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How Tech Works.
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00:22:28,577 --> 00:22:30,779
I'm Basil Singer.
See you next time.
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00:22:30,812 --> 00:22:33,815
[ending music]
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