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On this wet-and-wild episode of "Mythbusters"...
Whoa!
Aaaaah!
Aah!
I'm alive, right?
...It's the biggest, dirtiest, most vertigo-inducing build
In "Mythbusters" history...
That's one heck of a ramp.
...Testing the fantastical flight in this viral video.
Whoa!
This is fun.
Meanwhile, Kari, Tory, and Grant
Deliver the goods...
We're gonna get stuck on Lombard!
...Finding out if going the extra distance
And taking only right-hand turns....
Mcs is coming through!
...Can save you gas. There you go.
Who knew packages could be so exciting?
Who are the Mythbusters?
Adam savage...
70% chance of science.
...And Jamie Hyneman.
We're gonna have an adventure.
Between them, more than 30 years
Of special-effects experience.
Joining them...
Grant Imahara...
Formidable projectile.
Kari Byron...
Let's do it.
...And Tory Belleci.
Wasn't ready for that one, Kari.
They don't just tell the myths.
They put them to the test.
-- Sync by l30b @YYeTs www.addic7ed.com
You're wearing a face mask.
You're very observant. Why?
Why are you observant, or why am I wearing a face mask?
Okay. I'm wearing a face mask
Because we're doing a fairly damp story.
This is a Youtube clip that's pretty famous
And got sent to us by just about everyone,
In which a man is seen sliding down a water slide,
Launching himself off a ramp,
Flying a seemingly impossible length through the air,
And landing in a little, tiny swimming pool.
And so you want us to test this?
Oh, I want to test this.
It's a death-defying viral-video stunt
With over 4 million hits,
But is this incredible feat legit,
Or is it a slide-show sham?
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Where do you want to start?
Well, as much as I'd love
To just build a big, old slide and slide down it,
Something tells me that that might be dangerous.
Yeah. So I'm thinking we should start here in the shop
And do a kind of proof of concept.
To see whether we think we can get
That kind of distance and precision.
Exactly.
Let's start with a small slide -- a small slider --
Run it through some paces, and see what we get.
Without putting our bodies on the line.
Yet.
It's a slippery slope to the truth,
So they're starting with a proof of concept,
And here's what they're looking for.
Doing a scale water-slide experiment is a bit of a problem
Because gravity doesn't scale.
But it's no big deal because I only need our little dummy
To land in about the same spot over and over again,
'cause if he doesn't, he's toast.
Secondly, based on our video, to scale,
I need him to travel about 16 feet.
16 feet is the approximate "'x' marks the spot"
For the kiddy pool.
The blue-colored water
Helps the guys ensure that the whole slide is lubricated,
And then stunt Adam takes his first slip.
Slip-and-slide scale test.
3, 2, 1.
Oh!
That's awesome.
He left a little blue stain, nicely marking where he landed.
9'8".
9 feet is hardly the 16 feet Jamie was looking for,
But the guys have a slippery trick to try.
Do we want to try it again
But throw a little dish soap in that water?
Sounds like a good idea. I'll be right back.
Using soapy water to further lubricate the slide
Will reduce the friction on the stuntman...
Oh, yeah.
...Helping him to accelerate and hopefully fly further.
Here we go.
In 3...2...1.
Boom!
Sure enough, the soap surfactant's
Made mini Adam go the distance,
But what about accuracy?
Here we go. Looking for the same spot.
When I look at this rig, I think,
"he's not gonna hit the same target every time."
But that's not gonna stop us from trying,
Is it, little dude?
"oh, I'd rather be done."
No, you got a few more slides.
"okay." here we go.
I'm not getting tired of that.
It's not tiresome, but neither is it accurate,
So Jamie's got a plan.
I'm wondering about fixing him so he's in this position.
Binding the arms and legs should streamline mini Adam
And help him to land in the same place twice.
But before he flies,
The slide needs another spritz of soapy water.
I figure we should use something like this
For the full-size ramp, you know, but larger,
Like one of those hand-held weed sprayers.
I can't see it putting out anywhere near enough liquid.
I think it will.
If you want to bring it, that's fine.
But, I swear, if we end up using it to cover the ramp,
I'll pay you 100 bucks.
All right, then.
The gentleman's wager stands,
So the tiny slider is tossed down the slide...
Zoofa!
...Again...
And again.
Whoo-hoo! Boom!
That actually was pretty close to the last one.
It was.
And he even landed feetfirst again.
Both times?
Yep. Nice.
And soon enough, a pattern starts to emerge.
The more they send streamlined Adam down the slide...
Getting pretty much in the same area.
Go ahead and mark it again. I'm getting kind of excited.
...The more predictable his landings become.
Let's look at how our criteria stacks up.
The first thing is that we need our little dummy
To land in exactly the same spot,
And all these landings are within a few inches.
That works.
Secondly, to match the video,
We need him to come to about 16 feet.
And we got landings between 13 and 19 feet,
So this might actually work.
Aaahh!
I got to say, dude, looking at these landings
And thinking, like, perhaps the pool's about this size,
I'm pretty pleased with the consistency.
So you'd be willing to bet your life on this one, huh?
No, not -- not just yet.
But it does seem like less of the lethal choice
It seemed to me when I first watched the video.
Aaahh!
Okay, now, this next myth is based on something
That a major package-delivery company actually does.
They have a special software program
That custom-designs a route for their truck drivers
That eliminates as many left-hand turns as possible.
You know, I've heard this one.
I mean, apparently it's easy for truck drivers to take a right,
Because all they have to do is wait for a clearing
And then they can go.
But if you're turning left, you have to wait for a light
Or you have to wait for oncoming traffic to clear
Before you can turn.
You're sitting there idling, and you're wasting fuel.
Wait a minute.
You're telling me, instead of just making a simple left,
You're gonna go three rights to get to the same place
And that's more fuel-efficient? Exactly.
And for a major package-delivery company,
That's millions of dollars a year.
Millions. Cool.
It's a little counterintuitive,
But apparently you can cut corners
By always going right and avoiding the lights.
But can you really save gas
By going the extra distance to eliminate idling?
So, how are we gonna test this one?
Well, this myth is about delivery trucks,
But since most of our viewers don't have access to those,
I think we should start with a car.
Why don't we take a car, we'll bypass the fuel tank,
And we'll put in our own fuel cell?
That way, we can remove it and weigh it,
And we'll know exactly how much fuel we're using.
Good idea. And we'll do two routes.
The first one will be the most direct route.
And the second one, we'll eliminate left-hand turns
And do only rights.
And for consistency, we should have only one driver,
And because I'm the safest driver,
I think I should be behind the wheel.
You're the safest driver?
Grant is up for courier duty,
So the team heads to treasure island
To deliver their mythical Booty.
Now, the myth is that right-hand turns
Are more fuel-efficient than left-hand turns.
So we've set out two courses.
We're going to drive both courses at the same speed,
With the same driving style, to deliver 12 packages.
This is Adam's "blade runner" replica pistol.
The more direct left-hand route
Includes a 60-second wait at traffic lights
But is just .4 of a mile.
The longer right-hand route eliminates the wait,
But they'll cover .6 of a mile instead.
The routes will be repeated 12 times,
As there are a dozen packages to deliver.
It's raining. It was so nice out here.
A slightly damp Grant and Tory weigh the fuel cell
For their starting weight...
All right, 17.89 pounds.
...Then hook it up to the car.
All right. Let's deliver these packages.
Whoo-hoo! We're off.
It's left after left...
Yep, that's the right address.
...And light after light...
...As our left-brain couriers deliver the goods.
I need you to sign for that.
By the way, your average left has been 2inutes, 15 seconds.
There's no time to waste as they complete 12 circuits,
And finally every package is, uh, safely delivered.
Whoo-hoo!
Yeah!
All right, we are done with our route.
Let's measure our fuel cell.
Okay, it's 15.63 pounds.
So that is a difference of 2.26 pounds.
And you did the run in 27 minutes and 6 seconds.
All right, that was good time.
Let's reset, and we'll do the test
Where we just do right-hand turns only.
17.89. Perfect.
It's a straightforward process.
Tory and Grant repeat the delivery dozen...
I feel like we delivered to this location before.
...But this time only going right.
All right, so, you're gonna take a right up here.
And then maybe -- I think you're right.
Right you are, my man.
Grant maintains the same speed as the previous test,
And the weather conditions are identical.
Ugh!
However...
You know, this route feels faster.
I don't know if it is faster.
Well, we're cutting down by not stopping at lights.
And this time around,
Despite an extra 33% of distance to cover...
All right, this is our last stop.
...The parcels are dispatched in only 21 minutes.
Whoo! Yeah!
All right, now it's time to find out
Which is more fuel-efficient --
Left-hand turns or right-hand turns?
15.55.
So that means the right turn actually consumed more fuel.
Looks like this one is busted.
It's all about the total fuel consumption for 12 deliveries.
For our first test, we did all left-hand turns.
We covered 36 blocks in 27 minutes.
But for our second test, with all right-hand turns,
We covered almost twice the distance -- 60 blocks --
But came in at 21 minutes.
So the left-turn test used less fuel,
But what does that mean for the myth?
So, yes, we did find that the left-turn route
Was more fuel-efficient than the right-turn route.
But the really important thing to look at is the difference.
It was miniscule -- 4/10 of 1% -- less than 1%.
I think to really get to the bottom of this,
We need to introduce a real-world scenario.
Whoo!
Adam and Jamie take to the skies...
This is fun.
...But first they'll have to build their mega slide.
The Mythbusters are finding out
If this incredible slide is real or a flight of fancy.
Whoo-hoo! Boom!
Zoofa!
And after a proof of concept,
It looks like this just might fly.
I got to say, I'm astonished that the small scale
Seems to show that this myth is not impossible.
Well, then, it's time to go full scale.
I think it is.
This is kind of dangerous, though, so the question is,
Are you willing to stake your life on hitting that pool?
No, I am not, and that's why I've come up with,
I think, the perfect plan.
See, we don't have to do this myth on dry ground.
We just need to hit a target in the shape of a pool.
We could put that target on -- follow me -- a lake!
Then if we miss the target, we don't die.
It's like a win-win.
Excellent plan.
But before they go big scale,
They need to know exactly how big it is.
This myth, really, all comes down to the slide.
How big is it? How long is it?
What are its overall dimensions?
So I'm gonna spend some time
Getting up close and personal with the video
To try and extrapolate those dimensions.
And after some very thorough extrapolating...
I've got that it's 8 feet wide. Mm-hmm.
I've extrapolated that from an earlier shot.
...Adam has the dimension data on our slide.
It's approximately 200 feet long,
With a slope of 24 degrees and a ramp 12 feet high,
At an angle of 30 degrees.
So they'll need to find a lake
At the bottom of a large 24-degree hill.
Well, how about this one?
This has got to be the spot.
It's beautiful.
Get a little of that woodgie feeling just looking at that.
Yeah, we're gonna get going pretty fast
By the time we reach the bottom of this hill.
Awesome.
Oh, my gosh.
It's the ideal location,
But they'll have to work the angles
To get the 24-degree incline that this myth requires.
But we are no strangers
To extremely large builds in pursuit of a story.
It seems to me that the biggest ones always involve ramps.
I'm thinking specifically the dirt mound
For "the Dukes of Hazzard" jump...
Oh, my lord.
... And the huge container ramp for the rocket car.
That ramp held up a tree!
But behind me, in sheer size and tonnage,
Is the biggest build we have ever undertaken.
Adam's right.
With over 200 cubic yards of dirt
Required to make their ramp, this could take a while.
Still got a little ways to go.
And as the sun sets on day 1 of this mammoth build,
Their slope is more molehill than mountain.
But luckily next morning brings reinforcements.
These guys are pretty good, and they did great work for us.
But we still got a ways to go, and we needed some extra help,
So allow me to introduce you to some extra help.
* yeah *
That was quick.
Sometimes you need the right tool.
Yep, in five minutes, the massive earthmover
Has completed what it took them a whole day yesterday to do,
So the guys get to work on their ramp.
First, Jamie puts a new slant on danger...
...As he tamps down any loose earth.
You'll notice I'm only going up and down the ramp
With the bucket first,
Because I'm worried that if I went the other way,
I might flip over backwards.
...While Adam works the planks, building the takeoff ramp.
What are we doing?!
* yeah *
52 sheets of plywood are slid down the slope,
And the slide starts to take shape.
It's beautiful.
It looks great.
You first.
And now that they're out of the woods,
Jamie is taking precautions.
These things are called straw wattles.
Normally they're used for preventing erosion.
We're not gonna use them for that.
We're gonna use them as barriers
Along the side of our slide
To help prevent us from going someplace we don't want to go.
Jamie, that looks hilarious.
With the wattle safety system secure,
They focus on comfort,
Cushioning the entire slide with carpet.
Oop.
Ooh.
Whoo!
Can I get another roll of duct tape?
And then it's time for the last ingredient
Of any slippery dip -- lacquered vinyl.
Never let it be said
That "Mythbusters" doesn't roll out at least the orange carpet.
Come on. All the way, buddy.
Yep, roll it out.
But we may have a few problems holding on to it.
Oh, well.
You should hop off the carpet, please. Yep.
It's like it's slippery.
Ho ho!
There we go. Okay.
I'm not only having fun, I'm finding if there's any spots
That are sticking up that can hurt us.
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
I think the answer is no.
And there you have it --
After two days of back-breaking, earth-moving, soil-smoothing,
Plywood-plaquing, wattle-waddling,
Carpet-laying, and vinyl-veneering --
One massive made-to-order "Mythbusters" water slide.
Well, sir, that is a ramp.
Yes, it is.
What's standing between us and testing it?
A commercial break?
Oh. See you in a few minutes.
Can canny delivery companies save fuel
By turning only right and eliminating the lights?
So far for cars,
It looks like it doesn't make that much of a difference
If you're making a left-hand turn or a right-hand turn.
But, I mean, is that true for trucks?
Is this company just wasting their time?
I think we definitely need to step up to trucks next.
I mean, a big truck takes longer to accelerate,
Which means it needs a bigger break in traffic
In order to complete a left-hand turn.
Plus, they're likely using more fuel while idling.
Yeah, and in the real world,
Not only do they have to deal with traffic,
Narrow roads, steep hills, pedestrians, and --
That sounds a little like San Francisco.
I say we get trucking.
The Mythbusters courier service
Is ready to deliver for this myth.
This is the truck that we are gonna be using
To make our deliveries.
We have created the Mythbusters courier service.
We aim to please.
But there's more. Come with me.
We will be making several deliveries
To our favorite vendors.
And inside our packages are "Mythbusters" t-shirts.
More importantly, though,
Our truck is outfitted with a fuel cell
That we'll be measuring before and after each run
So we find out how much fuel we're consuming.
78.75 pounds.
So that is our starting fuel weight.
The best part is, I'll be driving.
Just like the car test,
For this test, they'll do two routes,
Delivering to the same six destinations.
First up is the direct route, with both lefts and rights,
Covering a distance of 5.2 miles
From the palace of fine arts to Alamo square.
All right, let's get these packages delivered.
All right, zeroing out trip odometer.
Start your engine in 3...2...1...Go!
All right, and here we go.
All right, coming up here,
You're gonna be taking a left at the light.
Oh, see?
This darn light -- it's eating into our schedule.
Despite the lights, in no time at all,
They've reached their first "Mythbusters" landmark...
You ready, kid? I was born ready.
...Fort Mason.
Drop that package. Got it!
The delivery ninja Springs into action,
And the first package is dropped.
Come on! Let's go! Let's go!
We got a schedule to keep! Okay, hit it!
Oh, my God! We're going to Lombard street!
I love a challenge.
That's the crookedest street in the city, possibly the world.
No, that's wall street.
Yep, Lombard street has more curves than a chorus line,
And it's proving a little difficult for mcs.
Oh, crap!
Oh, my God! Oh, my gosh!
We start going down Lombard, I'm thinking to myself,
"who picked this route?" I mean, this is ridiculous.
Don't worry. We're professionals here at mcs.
Watch out. It's getting tighter and tighter.
Can you make it down this?
I'm almost about to crash into the side of the wall.
This is a national treasure.
This is a landmark.
I have to throw it into reverse. I'm backing up.
Just then, because the angle of the truck was so steep,
We lost fuel to the engine, and the engine cut out.
Oh [bleep].
Aaahh! We're gonna get stuck on Lombard!
So I lose my power steering.
I had to throw it in neutral
And do the rest of the street in neutral.
Mcs -- we guarantee our deliveries!
I didn't even think I was gonna make it out.
I'm going over the curb!
You're going over the curb?!
Luckily, Tory knows how to handle a curve, even in neutral.
Go!
So the second delivery is made.
There you go. Package for you.
And then after a little push...
So crazy.
...It's off to drop stop number 3 -- north beach.
Hey, ciao.
This is north beach. It's little Italy -- my people.
Ciao, ciao!
Hey, Vinny!
Hey, let's stop and have lunch.
No time for lunch, Tory. We got to deliver a package!
Once again, the cowboy courier
Is in and out.
Okay, go, go, go!
And they head to the "Mythbusters" butcher of choice
In Chinatown.
Little city meats, here we come.
As I'm driving this route,
I'm starting to see that left-hand turns
Are a lot more annoying than right-hand turns.
I mean, you got to wait for the traffic to clear up
Before you can even go.
Yep, so far this test,
They've spent over five minutes
Just idling at traffic lights.
Look out, people on the cable car,
Mcs is coming through!
Oh, my God. This is such a hard left.
Come on! Go, go, go!
We got to get these packages delivered!
All right, Grant, this is your drop! Get it!
Go, go, go, go!
Hi. I have a delivery for you.
That's five packages delivered,
With one final stop to make -- Alamo square.
This is it! This is the last package!
Yeah!
We did it! Nice work, you guys.
Package from the Mythbusters.
Thank you.
That's it. Yes!
We're done.
Customer satisfaction guaranteed.
That's mcs.
So, left-hand turns -- pretty hairy, huh?
Yeah, and now we got to measure the fuel,
Get onto the right-hand route, and do this all again.
So we have 71.95 pounds.
Okay, that gives us a total of 6.8 pounds consumed.
We went 5.2 miles in 52 minutes.
Yeah! Nice!
That felt like we went like 100 miles.
In about five hours.
After driving our left-heavy route,
I feel like our results might be extremely interesting
For this experiment.
'cause if you think about the amount of time
That we had to idle at lights before we could turn left,
I think it's about the same amount of time
It would take three rights to get to a left.
I think we might actually have the opposite result
Of our previous experiment.
I think we might actually save fuel going right.
Don't try anything you see on the show at home.
We're what you call "experts."
Welcome back.
We are testing
Pretty much everything we can see in this clip.
So we came out here to pit 232 and built ourselves
A full-size ramp, which we are about to test.
If you'll excuse me,
I'm gonna get suited up for the first slide.
While Adam slips into something more uncomfortable,
Here's Jamie with the stats on the superslide.
Our slide is 165 feet long.
As we go down it, we'll be going at a 24-degree angle.
As we come off the end of it,
We're gonna be going at a 30-degree angle.
How far we go and how fast we travel --
That's what we're here to find out.
And they'll coat the slide with the same slippery solution
As the small scale.
We're using soap and water to lubricate things,
Make us go faster.
Jamie's sorted out the lube,
And Adam's suited up.
Adam, I've got this handy-dandy GPS unit
I'd like to put on you so we can track your speed.
Fantastic. I can put it right...There.
Ready.
The GPS unit will track not only Adam's speed,
But also the distance he flies
From the mega "Mythbusters" slide.
While it would be tempting to just go for it
And start from the top,
We're gonna start from the middle,
Because we kind of need to work our way into this.
I'm not actually nervous.
I'm...Itching to get on this slide!
This is a prototype.
We don't know what it's gonna do.
I'm dying to try this out!
We're gonna ease into it, and everything seems okay.
Then we'll go for it.
I just can't wait.
Here we go! Test number 1!
Adam "danger" savage empties his bucket
And adopts the downhill-luge position of the video.
Whoo! Whoo!
Oh, yes!
I'm okay.
Not very far.
That undignified dismount wasn't quite the slide Adam expected.
Whoo!
With only half a slope to build momentum,
He peaked at 15 miles per hour...
And traveled a measly 4 feet.
You barely made it off the end of the ramp.
I don't know what happened.
I was good and slippery,
And the track did a great job of keeping me on the track,
But I landed about 4 feet away.
That's not a good sign.
No, it's not a good sign for the myth,
But I'm raring to go again.
That was a hell of a lot of fun.
And for take 2, he'll need a little more slide,
So he heads to three-quarters of the way up.
Whoo!
Aah!
The landing y have been a little hard on his derri├¿re...
Whoo!
...But at least Adam got in.
Oh, wow.
But there was one frothy problem.
Whoo!
Aah! Aah!
By the time I hit the ramp,
So much water had sprayed into my face from the overly wet ramp
That I couldn't see a thing.
I hit the ramp blind.
Aah!
I did everything wrong.
Aah!
But I landed okay.
Coach, I'm ready to go in for another run.
Will you send me in?
Okay, but to be safe for this run,
They ditch the bucket
And give the slide a more even spray from top to bottom.
If you remember, I told Jamie
That I thought the sprayers were a stupid idea,
And I was so sure we weren't gonna use them to grease the ramp
That I told him that if we did use them,
I'd pay him $100.
I hope he forgets.
I doubt it, Adam. The Hyneman never forgets.
With the safety sorted out,
The guys can concentrate on this myth.
There are two parts to the superslide --
Accuracy and distance.
So first they're taking on...
Distance.
By our best calculations,
The slider in the video flies approximately 115 feet.
Do I have 115 feet of travel in my future?
Honestly, I don't think.
Okay, I'm ready to go from the top.
It should be all downhill from here.
Yeah, well, break a leg.
Here I go.
But will a slide from the very top be enough to launch Adam
The same distance as the video stunt slider?
3...2...1.
Oh, it doesn't take much. Here we go.
Whoa!
Aaaaaah!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Wow!
Whoo!
Well, that was one mighty mega whoosh.
Aaaaaah!
But Adam only flew 70 feet...
Aaaah!
...A far cry from the 115 feet of the myth.
I'm alive, right?
I think so.
How far did I fly?
You flew about 70 feet.
Aaaaaah!
That's totally intense.
That went above and beyond everything else.
The single most intense thing I've ever done on the show.
Editors, just roll it one more time.
I want to watch this.
Yeah, look at that!
I'm screaming involuntarily the whole way to the water.
The moment I feel the water hit my feet, I am so grateful,
'cause I know it's a good landing.
I wish you could try this.
Well, we can't, but the Hyneman can...
And maybe he'll be able to go the extra distance
This myth requires.
Aaaaah!
Whoo!
Next up...
Keep off walls.
...The Mythbusters deliver
And set their route to rights.
Hey, don't forget to use mcs!
We're the bomb!
Is it a bird?
Whoo!
Is it a plane?
No, it's Adam "danger" savage,
Trying to re-create this.
But now it's time to call in the heavies.
So, why do I have to go down the slide when Adam already has?
Good to go.
Well, you don't think I'm gonna pass something like this up, do you?
I mean, look at it.
And, besides, who knows? I might go further.
It isn't a case of "anything Adam can do,
Jamie can do better."
Just relax and clench your butt. That worked for me so well.
It's about mass.
Jamie is slightly heavier than Adam,
And that could give him an edge
When it comes to flight distance.
Don't you wonder what's going through Jamie's head right now?
"keep my core tight, relax."
It's probably not.
It's probably more like,
"I wonder how to reassemble the rack on my truck.
"maybe some quarter-20 bolts.
Oh, it's time to go? Okay. Here we go."
So, Adam, this whole thing seems kind of fun,
But it's also terrifying.
Maybe it's terrifyingly fun. What do you think?
Yeah. Exactly the same assessment of the thing.
Tell me what you feel like after the fly.
I guess it's now or never.
Here we go.
Jamie starts at the safety distance
Three-quarters of the way up.
Whoa!
Perfect!
Whoa!
You sounded great going down -- "w-w-whoa!"
It is kind of involuntary.
Whoa!
Do you see what I mean about,
Like, not having much of a choice, how things are going?
I didn't keep my legs quite as spread as you were,
Which was part of the reason I came off just a hair sideways.
Yeah.
That's kind of painful coming down.
If you're not centered, that's a lot of hit.
Yeah, when I landed on my butt --
I'm still sore from that.
Aaaaah!
With Jamie's safety run complete, he heads for the top.
Just look at this thing. I mean, who gets to do this?
This is fun.
Fun,
But will he be able to fly the full 115 feet of the myth?
From the top.
3...2...1.
Oh!
He's okay.
That landing was a little cattywampus.
Jamie made quite a splash...
Because according to the GPS,
He peaked at 30 miles per hour
And achieved the furthest flight yet.
I just went 30 miles an hour down the ramp,
And I flew 72 feet.
Oh!
Now, we know, looking at the video,
That the guy had to have traveled about 115 feet.
And backing out from there, doing the math,
That tells us that he had to be going
About 40 to 45 miles an hour through the air.
Not looking good for the myth.
Yep, the mythical 115 feet is impossible to match,
So next they'll focus on part 2 -- accuracy.
So, you flew 72 feet on that run.
I beat you.
By 2 feet.
Yes!
But now that leads to the natural question of accuracy.
If we did this on dry land,
Could we place the pool somewhere
Where we'd hit it every time and survive?
We can arrange that.
Can I be the one to do it?
Can I be the one to run the test? Please, please, please?
Well, with all this enthusiasm, I suppose so.
Excellent. Excellent. I'll suit up.
Here you go. Package for you.
Our trucking trio are testing the myth
That you can save gas by only turning right.
Come on! Go, go, go!
We got packages!
For their left-turn delivery route,
They used 6.8 pounds of gas.
But will that change for the right route?
Okay, now it's time for the right-hand route.
To keep this scientific,
We're driving at the same time of day
With the same driving style
And going to the same six destinations.
Just as before, they weigh the fuel cell.
All right, 76.9.
Start the right-hand route.
All right. Cool.
And then it's time to start the engines.
Let's do this.
Six packages and using nothing but rights.
This should be interesting.
It should.
For this route, they'll deliver to the same six destinations.
But where there were lefts,
They'll make three right turns instead,
Meaning they'll cover a total distance of 6.8 miles --
20% further than the last test.
Okay, fort Mason Gate.
Grant, you ready for this delivery?
It's your first one.
All right, I'm gonna pull over.
You jump and deliver that package.
Go, go!
Once again, a fast-and-furious Grant delivers the goods.
Go, go, go, go!
You can make it, Grant! You can make it!
And Tory is on the right course.
Seems like we're traveling over a lot more distance
With this route.
Yeah, but we're not waiting at lights.
Grant's right.
They're not hanging around for this test,
And they're already at their second location.
But will the lack of lights yet extra distance save them fuel?
All right, so, this is Lombard.
Lombard. Get ready.
Keep off walls.
Their last Lombard run was a little sticky.
Oh [bleep]
Looking good.
So this time, to even the odds,
Tory cruises down in neutral
And restarts the engine at the bottom of the hill
To mimic the same fuel consumption as before.
Okay, go, go, go, go, go!
Are you a fan of "Mythbusters"? Yeah.
Here you go. There's a package delivered for you.
Thank you.
That's one happy fan.
So, it's on to little Italy...
Ciao, ciao!
All right.
Okay, go, go, go!
Did you get a signature?
...And then Chinatown.
It's the belly of the beast -- Chinatown.
Come on! Get back here! Come on, son.
He's faster than I remember.
That's four packages down with only two to go.
Who knew packages could be so exciting?
Should we leave him this time?
Nah, we got one more package still.
I don't want to get out of the car.
Do you? No.
And for the final delivery,
There's just one more set of rights to get to Alamo square.
All right, here we go.
Last delivery.
It sure would be easier if we could take a left.
Sure would. And now they're at Alamo square,
They're done "right" by the route.
But has going the extra distance saved them gas?
Good enough! Let's weigh the fuel cell!
All right, 72.9 pounds.
That means we consumed 2.8 pounds less
On the right-hand route.
So it's confirmed.
It actually saved you fuel
To do do right turns only?
Surprisingly enough,
Although the right-hand route
Added nine minutes to their total delivery time,
It was more fuel-efficient.
The results for this experiment are really, really interesting.
The left-hand route was shorter, it took less time,
But it consumed a lot more fuel.
So this myth is confirmed.
If you're a delivery-truck driver in an urban environment,
You're definitely gonna want to plan a right-hand route.
But if you're me in a little, tiny car, not very practical.
Up next, it's Adam's accuracy...
From here, the ring looks like the size of a quarter.
...As he rings in the water-slide wipeout.
Aaaaah!
Water slides -- they're wet-and-wild fun.
But could the science of this splash landing be misleading?
A flight of 115 feet is busted.
So now it's all down to accuracy.
To me, the soul of this myth boils down to accuracy.
Is the slider going to hit the same location repeatedly?
And, thus, can they place a pool
In the middle of a grassy field and hit it,
Thus saving their lives?
Okay, so from everything we've done so far,
We've calculated that we're hitting a spot
That's pretty much in the center of that circle behind me.
But here's how I want you to think about this.
Picture that that is dry land,
And the only salvation you have at the end of that dry land
Is that circle, which is full of lifesaving water,
Somewhere in the middle of the dry land,
And you are going to trust your life to hitting that target.
I would not.
I personally am really glad
That the whole thing is surrounded by water.
I just can't give it 100% that I'm gonna hit it.
I'm gonna try and hit it. Are you ready?
I'm ready. Go for the gold star.
Dude, I wish you could see it from here.
From here, the ring looks like the size of a quarter.
Well, then, you shouldn't have any trouble hitting it.
Okay.
It all comes down to this --
One souped-up superslider and one floatin' ring of rubber.
Will Adam be accurate enough to ring in this myth?
In 3...2...1!
Yeah!
That was a perfect splash landing.
Dude, I didn't even break it!
Adam's final run propelled him 70 feet
And then directly into the center of the pseudo-kiddy pool.
I don't think this is really gonna take off
As an amusement-park ride, though.
It's a little intense for the kids.
Well done.
Thank you.
I am gobsmacked that that worked so well.
So, Adam's accuracy was actually pretty good.
But let's remember that in the clip,
The pool was about 115 feet away from the end of the ramp.
And that means that if what happened here happened in that clip,
That guy would be splat about in the middle of the run.
Not a good thing.
But where does that leave this mega-whoosh myth?
Well, as far as the distance goes, it's busted,
Because we'd have to have a slide
At least twice as long as this to get that 115 feet.
But accuracy --
The plausibility of the accuracy
Is the thing I find most astounding in this.
When we started testing this, I would have never called
That we'd be reliably hitting that dot time and again,
That you could somehow set this up on dry land
And actually hit the target.
Well, for the myth to be true, both halves have to be true,
And they're not, so it's busted.
That's awfully technical of you, but, okay, I'll buy that.
It's busted.
So, where's my 100 bucks?
I got to say, that was the most intense thing
I've ever done on this show.
Yeah, well, while we were busting this myth in the field,
Our researchers were busting it in cyberspace.
How so?
They contacted the people that made the clip,
And you know what?
It was c.G.
Double-plus busted!
Busted.
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