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Anyone else catch the Mythbusters cell phone driving episode 1829

Anyone else catch the Mythbusters cell phone driving episode 1830
One of the best shows on Television, IMHO. The premise of the show is that...
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Coming back with a load of wood on SR195 - 2 lane highway with limited pbutting posted 60, flow...

Anyone else catch the Mythbusters cell phone driving episode 1831
OK, I can accept that explanation. But it still wouldn't explain why the test was limited to BELOW .08. Overall, I have to say I'm really...

I don't know. For the most part, the tests they come up with are pretty good in the sense that any serious scientist could repeat the experiment under more "controlled" circumstances and most likely get the exact same results. There have been one or two episodes that I've questioned, though. The drunk driving (versus cell phone driving) test wasn't really a valid test as the drivers weren't drunk, obviously. As for "buster" the dummy . . . the only tests I can remember him in were carried out in ways that a "real" test dummy with more sensors would not have offered more conclusive results. For example, the boom lift catapult episode . . . the dummy is either going to fly or it isn't. It doesn't matter how many sensors it has. Holding plywood and various "parachutes" made of plywood, buster was dropped off of a very tall building. Somewhat predictably, he dropped like a rock. Yeah, they rigged up some contraption to indicate whether he had serious brain injury or not. Maybe a fancy sensor would have offered more scientific evidence. But really, when you see the dummy drop like a rock off a very tall building and cause a "THUD" that would measure on a richter scale, are you going to question the conclusion that a human being most likely would have died? Another "buster" test was dropping buster off a HIGH bridge into water, after dropping a tool first. Theory was, the tool would break the surface tension of the water, allowing "buster" to safely enter the water without serious injury. As I recall in that episode, "buster" lost some limbs when he hit the water. (!) Like I said before, most of their tests could easily be repeated by serious scientists under more controlled circumstances, and the results would likely be identical. Do we need a bunch of sensors to tell us that losing limbs is a BAD thing?




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