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Speaker 1: from house stuff works dot Com? Hi, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot Com. With me is my trustee

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Speaker 1: and double jointed edit tricks, Candice Gibson. How are you, Candice? So, Candice,

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Speaker 1: to our favorite listener. Okay, so, hey Billy, thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed this podcast as much as the others. Um,

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Speaker 1: And what we're talking about this week is Deathproof cars,

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Speaker 1: which is just super cool. Candice. Have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: the movie Deathproof? Candice? Have you ever seen the movie Ghostbusters? No? Okay,

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Speaker 1: well you need to see both. Well, we'll just talk

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Speaker 1: about death Proof now. I'll tell you about Ghostbusters later. So. Um,

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Speaker 1: in the movie, uh, there's a guy named stuntman Mike,

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Speaker 1: and he's got this car. But I know a really

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Speaker 1: cool car when I see one, And something in Mike's

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Speaker 1: car is cool in aces. It's a nineteen seventy Chevy

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Speaker 1: Nova and it has like a skull with lightning bolts

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Speaker 1: for crossbones on the hood and he has a reinforced

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Speaker 1: with steel beams, shadow proof glass, five points seatbelt, all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff. Um. And the reason he has gone

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Speaker 1: to the trouble of death proofing his car is because

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Speaker 1: he loves to ram it into other people's cars at

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Speaker 1: high speeds and kill him. So he just generally reeks

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Speaker 1: havoc on the highway. And something in Mike's car is

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Speaker 1: death proof. He walks away from it several times. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out that they're in real life and

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Speaker 1: this is just a movie as far as we know.

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Speaker 1: It's not based on any real life events hopefully. Um.

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Speaker 1: But in real life there are some people who are

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Speaker 1: thinking about death proof cars, but they're kind of taking

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Speaker 1: it in another direction. You know much about that, Candice.

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Speaker 1: I do, and I'll redeem myself since I lack movie knowledge.

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Speaker 1: This is a European commission called they Prevent Safety Research Group,

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Speaker 1: and they're very lofty goal is to reduce auto accidents

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Speaker 1: in Europe by fifty cent by the year. And to

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Speaker 1: this end, a very well renowned European automaker Revolvo. Volvo

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Speaker 1: I used to have one to I have one, and

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Speaker 1: actually our producer Jerry admitted that she had one as well.

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Speaker 1: So Volvos are very popular around the office. I'll love

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Speaker 1: those bees. Um, they have a vowed to make an

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Speaker 1: injury proof car by and it's not going to be

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Speaker 1: injury proof. And the way that stuntman Mikes is it's

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Speaker 1: actually going to rely on digital features to reinforce it.

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Speaker 1: And that's a that's a pretty good thing actually because

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Speaker 1: stuntman Mike, he's a hard driver. But for the most part,

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Speaker 1: we humans tend to fold like card tables under pressure,

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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to collisions. Yeah, well they're pretty scary.

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Speaker 1: And the way that our our brain works just a

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Speaker 1: short little lesson for you. You can read more about

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Speaker 1: it and healthier works on how stuff works dot com. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: when you perceive something that's kind of harry, your brain

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Speaker 1: interpret systemulus and start sending chemicals through your body to

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Speaker 1: help with your reaction to that. Your fight or flight syndrome,

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Speaker 1: and some things that happen are like your breathing speeds

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Speaker 1: up and your heart starts racing, and your muscles tense

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Speaker 1: up and you can't always react. And in the case

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Speaker 1: of auto accidents, that's pretty scary because in fifty of

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Speaker 1: rare end collisions, people don't even apply the brakes because

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Speaker 1: they're too frozen in fear and actually a big whopping

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Speaker 1: one point one seconds path before drivers in the phase

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Speaker 1: of an impending collision do anything at all. Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: which goes to lending creams to my theory that humans

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Speaker 1: are useless and I'm not the only one who thinks

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Speaker 1: to see that these engineers that prevent are basically taking

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Speaker 1: humans out of the equation when it comes to facing

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Speaker 1: a collision. Right. Um, there's already a lot of features

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Speaker 1: on the digital car that you mentioned, which is another

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Speaker 1: article on how stuff works dot com um, and there

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Speaker 1: are there are all sorts of like safety features that

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Speaker 1: are popping up on high end luxury ours, uh, like

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Speaker 1: the blind spot detection system, which uses sensors to detect

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Speaker 1: when a car is in your blind spot and you

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Speaker 1: can't see it, or um collision prevention systems, which also

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Speaker 1: use sensors to tell when you're coming up really fast

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Speaker 1: on another obstacle at stakes self tightening seat belts, breaks

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Speaker 1: that can adjust pressure for your foot and all of

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Speaker 1: these features like combined to gather are going to be

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Speaker 1: a part of this injury proof car. And what's more,

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Speaker 1: you know we mentioned breaks that increase pressure for you

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Speaker 1: if you can't quite break as hard as you like

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Speaker 1: to you before you hit something there you like myself,

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Speaker 1: um but this car could actually break for you. So

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Speaker 1: completely removing humans from the equation, taking out emotionality and

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Speaker 1: replacing it with hardcore rationality and the hardcore rationalities what

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Speaker 1: you want in the face of a collision. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just breaking for you. Some some cars will be

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Speaker 1: the injury proof car most likely will be so set

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Speaker 1: with sensors it will be aware of everything that's going

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Speaker 1: on around it and ahead of it and behind it.

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Speaker 1: And um so in the future, when you have to

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Speaker 1: swerve one way or another in the face of a collision,

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Speaker 1: your car may say, okay, well, we've got a baby

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Speaker 1: right and a squirrel the left, and the car will

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Speaker 1: swerve to the left and goodbye squirrel. So there's a

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Speaker 1: lot more information on this in the article I wrote

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Speaker 1: in Candice edited Can a car Really be Death Proof?

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