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Speaker 1: smart happens. Hi. I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, how
Speaker 1: do they create the hopping cars you see in the movies?
Speaker 1: These cars are known as low riders, and they seem
Speaker 1: to be most popular in southern California. A low rider
Speaker 1: is any car that has modifications allowing it to ride
Speaker 1: very low to the ground. The problem with a low
Speaker 1: rider is that things like speed bumps and rough roads
Speaker 1: can make driving difficult. To solve these problems, lowrider enthusiasts
Speaker 1: install hydraulic lift kits that allow a completely adjustable height
Speaker 1: for the vehicle. These kits use electric hydraulic pumps and
Speaker 1: normal hydraulic cylinders to raise and lower the vehicle. It's
Speaker 1: pretty involved installation and can cost several thousand dollars. So
Speaker 1: the hydraulic kits solved the height problem. What happened next?
Speaker 1: Was unpredictable and amazing. Someone at some point realized that
Speaker 1: with enough power, the hydraulic system could make the car
Speaker 1: hop low rider Hydraulic systems quickly evolved to make hopping
Speaker 1: more and more interesting, until cars could eventually hop six
Speaker 1: feet off the ground. Originally, there was one twelve volt
Speaker 1: or twenty four volt pump driving all four wheels in Unison.
Speaker 1: It's now possible to find cars that have four pumps,
Speaker 1: one for each wheel, and a dozen batteries to power them.
Speaker 1: Twelve batteries can create two seventy two volt systems. These
Speaker 1: powerful systems or what you see in the movie. Be
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