[car engine roars]

[Man] See all wrecks with these things huh?

[Man 2] Let me go for it, go for it!

[window crash drowns out speaker]

Hi my name's Wyatt Knox.

[ding]

[Narrater] You may recognize Wyatt

from our previous WIRED video.

I'm the special projects director here at

the Team O'Neil Rally School.

And today I'm breaking down clips from

movies and television about driving. Roll clip.

Drifting, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Go!

[upbeat action music]

[car swerve screech]

So the scenario that we've got in this movie

is that they're racing up through

a parking garage to get to the top level.

Any racing driver would tell you that

this is sort of nonsense if you're trying

to get up as quickly as possible.

You wouldn't be drifting much.

[car swerve screech]

But it is a lot more fun and

it's certainly more spectacular

to watch in a movie.

Maybe you could give me some pointers some time.

So there's a couple of different ways you could

initiate a drift depending on how much speed you have.

You could come into the corner and using the hand brake

to create some rotation and finish that off, by,

ya know, using more throttle than you would need

on that surface to spin the rear tires.

[car engine roars][tires screech]

Another great way to do it is what we just saw here,

which is the clutch-kick, which is while

you're on the throttle, if you just clutch in,

the engine's gonna rev up,

and then when you clutch out again,

it's gonna shock load those rear tires into spinning,

and then creating oversteer around the corner.

It works when you've got about the right amount of speed

for the corner, but it's super useful to break

the rear tires free when they don't really want to.

Crashing a car, Transporter 2.

[car crash]

[intense music]

[sirens blaring]

So what you're looking at here is a couple

of cop cars that crashed into each other.

A little bit behind the scenes,

into some of what the stunt guys are doing here,

you can see underneath the vertical car

where there's a few sort of metal rails

that have been added on where

the one car's gonna impact the bottom of it.

And then as that vehicle makes contact

and breaks through that first car,

you can see there's nobody in that second cruiser at all.

So a car like this,

that you're gonna do some stunt driving with,

you're gonna wanna make some safety modifications to,

the addition of a racing seat,

and real five-point seat belts, a racing harness,

is gonna make that a lot safer.

Not bad.

Didn't your mother ever teach you to say thank you?

One additional thing that they probably fit

in most of these cars is a dry-cell battery.

A normal car battery in a collision,

the problem is that it's acid-filled,

and that's nothing you want any of your people

dealing with, it's just not good.

So, a regular dry-cell battery,

like what we would use a car, is much safer,

and you can mount that in a safe locations,

so that the more impact you take,

that battery and that fuel cell are still gonna be safe.

High-speed driving in reverse, Drive.

[car engine roars]

[car metal scrapes together]

What you've got here is a 5-liter Mustang GT,

in a race with a Chrysler 300,

which, even if that is the souped-up version,

the Mustangs gonna just walk away from it any day.

So, we're kind of departing from reality from the beginning.

[car screeches]

[car engine roars]

It's good stunt driving, it was well executed.

Once he does his forward 180 which is

probably just because it's on the kinda

stunt driving menu to pick from.

You can only go about as fast in reverse

as you can in first gear.

So now the other guy's got a massive advantage.

Then why didn't you say anything?

There's just no reason to ever tactically do that,

especially when your car can easily outrun the other one.

Time travel, Back To The Future.

[bright trumpet music]

Come on, move. Damn it.

[car screech]

Again, you really have to look at ya know,

an air-cooled Volkswagen bus keeping up with a DeLorean.

DeLoreans were slow, I'll give you that,

but they're not that slow.

An air-cooled little Volkswagen, you would just

drive away from it and the story would be over.

See if you can do 90.

[car screech]

As far as getting up enough speed to travel

through time.

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour,

you're gonna see some serious [beep]

88 miles an hour in an old DeLorean,

with all of that stuff bolted in the back,

could be a challenge, ya know in just a mall parking lot.

All your questions will be answered! Roll the tape!

You would ideally want a much longer stretch of road

but conceivably, sure, he could get up to 88

and jump through time.

Off-road driving, Die Hard with a Vengeance.

[car screeches]

Hang on.

Rob! Rob! Rob!

Super fun scene to watch some

high speed off-road driving in a taxi cab.

The one kinda shout out, that I'd have for that,

is the seat belt thing.

How about we just skip down to the part

where you tell me what this has to do with me?

Maintaining good control of that vehicle,

and you're gonna be bouncing your head on the ceiling,

your feet are coming off the pedals,

it's gonna be really ugly.

What, you asking me or telling me?

You gotta get you're seatbelt on.

[car honks]

[yells]

There's a couple of big jumps,

one in the park, and one leaving the park,

getting back on the pavement.

The main fear there is obviously ya know,

broken suspension, but really,

your oil pan crashing down on the road,

and getting the hole in your oil pan,

and destroying the engine.

What?

You can see towards the end of this

where there's actually a skid plate

that they've added underneath the oil panel

of the car to handle that last jump.

More SUVs and off-road oriented pickup trucks

are gonna have some of that but,

in a normal sedan, it's gonna be a little bit up to you

to take that initiative and do

some of that ruggedising on your own.

Are you aiming for these people?

No.

[car screech]

Maybe that mime.

Driving off a cliff, Thelma and Louise.

[car engine roars]

[smooth safari music]

Alright! So yeah, nobody definitely would have survived.

What I like there though is that she did sort of

preload the suspension with a little left foot brake

and then accelerate.

What are you talkin' about?

One of the main reasons for left foot braking

is to control the movement of the suspension.

If you were about to go off the jump for instance,

it might make sense to add a little left foot brake,

and that'll compress those front springs,

and then right before you go off of that jump,

release the brake, full throttle,

and that spring is gonna unload,

and take the weight off of the front,

just like the way you would on a

bicycle, or a skateboard, or anything else.

So, it was really good driving,

it's great she's left foot braking,

but yeah, nobodies gonna survive that one.

Oh my god.

Driving on two wheels, The Fate of the Furious.

[car engine roars]

[screams of fear]

So this is a really good stunt,

preformed perfectly, it's all real,

there's nothing sorta CG about it.

If you find yourself up on two wheels,

What are you doing?!

What you need to do is turn whichever way

that point is downhill will

put the car back down onto four wheels,

and if you turned uphill, it would get you

closer to, and or rolling over.

Once you get used to that balance point,

what you're gonna need is one,

a lot of air pressure in your tires,

and two, you need a locking differential.

A locking differential is gonna send equal power

to both driven wheels regardless of whether

one's on ice and the others on pavement,

or one's in the air. When you accelerate,

it'll still put power down even if

your vehicles on two wheels.

Precision parking, Ace Venture: When Nature Calls.

If I could just find a parking spot!

Perhaps we should slowdown just a teensy-weensy bit!

Rig! Look out!

[car screech]

Not at all obviously possible or advisable

under any circumstance.

Can you believe it!

How did they do it in the movie though?

You could tell that initial roll over

is cause by some kind of a charge.

You could see the Land Rover's driving alone fine.

And then literally there's an explosion

underneath it almost that causes that vehicle

to start tumbling, in a big roll over.

And then later on when they go into their parking spot,

that vehicles literally getting dropped

from a crane, for that really quick little one second shot.

You might want to think about gettin this baby detailed.

Flipping a truck, The Dark Knight.

[engine roars]

That must've been cool.

[truck crashes]

Just to be on set and watch that go down.

That's a real stunt.

That's a real truck doing a real trick.

Would it happen like that in the real world?

Absolutely not.

You have all these rules.

If you did somehow manage to

stop the cab of an 18 wheeler,

they're really two very separate parts

that are only connected by a trailer hitch essentially.

So it wouldn't all happen in one big piece like that.

You ought to know you bought it.

To do this stunt they created a really light-weight

version of a tractor trailer truck

that was all one piece and

mounted a huge nitrogen canon in the back of it.

You can see that huge gas discharge again

when the truck flips over but

again it's not CG, it's all real.

It's a specially made rig to do that one stunt

but it's super cool.

Canyonero, The Simpsons.

Wow! This is roomy.

[western ballad]

♪ Can you name the truck with four wheel drive ♪

smells like a stink and seats 35

Canyonero, Canyonero

Spectacular! So the Canyonero is kind of

The Simpsons stab at American's love for

large sport utility vehicles.

♪ Top of the line in utility sports ♪

unexplained fires are a matter for the courts

Canyonero, Canyonero yah

It climbs up a mountain of cars

metaphorical I'm sure,

physically to climb up a mountain of cars

wouldn't happen.

The Federal Highway Commission has ruled`

the Canyonero is unsafe for highway or city driving.

Driving through buildings, Bad Boys II.

[car crash]

[screams]

We see this a lot in a lot of different car chases

and kinda action scenes,

cars driving through buildings.

This is the more dramatic ones just because

they are drug dealer shacks that explode when you hit them.

These are the drug dealer's shacks.

They make the cocaine here.

Bet they got a lot of shit in here that likes to blow.

[crash] [explosion]

Alright so no vehicle is actually ever going to

take this amount of abuse driving the Hummer aged 2,

kind of our Canyonero in real life here.

It's made by GM.

It's kind of an amalgamation.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Essentially it's a Chevy truck with a body on it.

In this scene it's super fun to watch

There's explosions, there's ya know jumping cars

many times over and crashing through buildings

and all of this stuff.

But when it gets to the bottom

and everybody drives away

and the thing's still in one piece.

Not going to happen.

Overcompensating tough guy.

Jumping between two buildings, Furious 7.

[breaking glass]

[car crash]

As much fun as it is,

I think we all know on this one that yeah

it's not anything that a normal car

would every handle.

Cars so fly.

No breaks!

What?

Noooooo.

[glass shatters]

Got it.

[engine roars]

So in the second building

when his breaks are out and he can't get the

breaks to work.

Easiest thing to do is most of the time

shut the engine off.

Or you can just do what they did in the third building

get the car into a big skid, get it sideways to the road,

and use that to get the vehicle slowed down

and hopefully to a stop.

[car crash]

Flipping a car, Casino Royale.

[dramatic music]

[tires screech]

[car crash]

Alright, so credit where credit is due

that's all a real car and that's all a real stunt

and it was probably terrifying for whoever was in there.

They tried to roll the car with a standard kind of a ramp

and they couldn't get it to roll.

It's so wide and it's so low.

What happens here is the car is driving along

and they deploy this gas canon which

flips the vehicle very quickly

and this one actually set a record

for the most times they've rolled a car

side over side like that in a movie

[ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding]

Seven times total.

A good clean stunt.

Pretty scary stuff.

The big bus jump, from Speed.

[dramatic music]

Everybody hold on!

[woman cries]

It's of course fake.

You would need a ramp of some kind

just like you would on a bicycle or a skate board

or anything else to jump across a gap like that.

[bus crash]

If you do need to go off a jump with a car

you definitely want to get you speed sorta checked

where you need to be

and then be on the gas aggressively

through that transition and off of that jump

so that the car planes out reasonably well in the air.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Goddamn!

Jumping a car onto the highway, The Dukes of Hazzard.

[men scream]

[engine roars]

You've got it!

[crash]

So again respect for using a real car

and not going the CG route.

I'm always ready to go that far.

Really cool but yet everyone would've died.

Had a neck trauma, back stuff, silly things

if you land the car that hard,

you are not going to walk away from it.

You're about to meet your maker!

So the most common ways that you see these

cars launched is just simply through the use of ramps

and often again nitrogen charged gas canons

can provide a huge amount of acceleration thrust

but yeah that's a real complete car that they somehow

sent off a ramp and it went huge.

We had a good time and

I'm not going to apologize for that.

Exhaust flames, 2 Fast 2 Furious

[car roars]

[crowd cheers]

In a normal modern car you are not going

to see a lot of exhaust flames at all.

The problem is you would need a lot of

unburnt air and fuel mixture

going out of you exhaust pipe to create those flames

and maybe people are doing that out there on the street

trying to be cool

but it's not something that's happening

as a side benefit of making a lot of horsepower at all.

[dramatic music]

Oil slick, Night Rider.

Don't start pushing things.

I don't even know what those things do.

If you're in a race like this, you better have

a good firm grip on that wheel.

[tires screech]

Whoa here's a slide out right now!

All right!

So what you got here is a pretty typical

kind of spy gadget.

The old oil slick behind you and spin the guy out.

If you really did have some kind of an oil slick

you'd want it to spread out and fan out a little better.

[engine roars]

You can't do that it's against escaregulations.

So if you do realise for some reason that the road

ahead is really slippery, be really smooth

and light with any steering that you do

and any throttle or break that you try and apply

while you're on that slippery surface.

Break nice and easy, steer nice and easy,

otherwise, you're going to be spinning out

and crashing into stuff all over the place.

Talking while driving, Strange Brew.

Hey did you ever notice that like

in movies that they, when they're driving

like they don't look at the road

like for a long time time.

Jeez no, I never noticed that.

Really cool to see them call this out

and it's something that's super common

and we've all seen, driving along

and you're just having a big chat

and just not really paying attention.

Yeah, that's just cause they're being towed.

Really? By like a rig.

[dramatic music]

[tires screech]

It's cause that car's probably on a flat-bed trailer,

they're just driving along getting towed by someone

having a conversation.

No point in steerin now.

[ding]

Conclusion

It's really really cool in this day and age

so many filmmakers using real cars, with real drivers,

doing real stunts, going pretty big

and doing some scary stuff

and it looks like a lot of fun.

It could be so easy to do it all with computers and

you know thank you so much

everybody who's making these films

for all of your hard work and we really do appreciate it.

And that's a wrap.

[applause]