I'm starting to see why Tom feels he doesn't have that many videos left in him - I thought he was retiring but it's more of a decreasing survival likelihood.
@@mickys8065 "I'm here at the rickety bridge of Timbuktu, which is suspended over a 150-metre drop. The locals here have let me have a go at crossing it."
"faster than any roller coaster launch, besides one in Japan that's closed because it kept shattering people's bones" well now I want to know the story of that
Okay well the story is that in Japan, there's a roller coaster that kept shattering people's bones. Because of that, it's currently shut down and not doing any bone shattering.
I literally just saw Tom at six flags in New Jersey casually riding rides by himself. This guy is a LEGEND! Edit: *CONFIRMED* He emailed me back!! I was on the same roller coaster ride as TOM FREAKING SCOTT! Thank you so much for the reply Tom you are the man stay well with everything going on in the world!
His CV! - Adventure to Arctic with Astronaut roommate - Red Arrows back seater - Unsuccessful pirate (tragic end to Captain Tom) One day I’ll open TH-cam and see a video of Tom in Space…& that would feel normal.
For those who are wondering about the Roller Coaster mentioned at 2:36, it's called Do-Dodonpa and is/was located at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Japan. It had a pneumatic launch system, and until 2016 featured a 49m tophat. The tophat was replaced and in 2017 it re-opened with a 39,7m diameter vertical loop. Before it's closing in 2021 it was able to reach 0-180km/h (111.8 mph) in 1,56 seconds, which when averaged out is around 0-100 in 0.86 seconds. It was manufactured by S&S Worldwide.
I love your genuine reactions there, Tom! Just sitting in dismay for like 8 seconds before going "WHAT!?" is the most cromulent response to that experience I can imagine!
"There is quite a history of floppy-haired British TV presenters getting into high speed vehicles and ending up in hospital" - not only is Tom taking a dig at Hammond, Rimac know all too well this history personally. Brilliant!
Its a very good example that I know a lot of Universities here in Australia could learn from. They might even be able to achieve something like this if they didn't spend so much money on marketing.
TBF most of the money come form outside of the uni, often from sponsoring of some kind of engineering company, Fundraising is one of many parts of running a formula student team@@matthewphillips9083
I love that these guys are using the ground suction technique that has been used now for many years by competitors in the "mini maze-solving robot" competitions. They compete to solve a maze as quickly as possible, and eventually pure friction became the limiting factor so they started putting tiny fans in the base, to literally suck on the ground. Now all the robots do it because you can't win without it.
I really admire how raw the footage of your reactions to experiences like this are. On one hand seeing a few seconds if you catching your breath and looking stunned certainly helps to get across the gravity of an experience like this, but also for those of us who have been watching you for years, since our adolescence, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's come to admire you a great deal; and seeing you have these unpolished and candid reactions makes you seem more like everyone else and reminds me that one day I could be as great a man as Tom Scott just by continuing to make decisions I can stand behind and be proud of!
As a fellow Formula Student member, I absolutely love seeing these proyects and teams receive the recognition they deserve. What AMZ has built is an incredible feat of engineering given the team is for the most part composed of engineering students. Formula Student is the best engineering project you could get into when studying your degree
Literally came here to say this. Formula Student launched my carrier, helped to connect with passionate engineers and found a lot of joy in it,while learning a lot. If you are a university student, don't hesitate to join you local team, it will be the best decision you can make.
Tom: “I’m not allowed to drive this large passenger transport vehicle, thank you for letting me sit behind the wheel.” Also Tom: “zero to one hundred kilometres per hour in under a second.”
I love how all his emotions and reactions were staggered over the next 10 seconds because his brain was almost catching up with everything haha. Absolutely incredible bit of engineering.
Rollercoaster fear isn't so much about the speed, but about the height and the potential fall. I wouldn't go near a rollercoaster, but I wouldn't have a problem trying out this car.
I am a team lead for a rocketry team in Canada and ETH Zurich has an absolutely cracked rocketry team as well, flying higher than anyone else and building absolutely incredible vehicles. It's not surprising they have an elite formula car team as well. What that one guy said about "our goal isn't to build cars it is to build engineers" is absolutely true, and its something I bring to my rocketry team every day. Really well done to all the students working on this
I would die to get the insight you have and use that for a valid opinion on what Elecrron and Starship really mean, in terms of achievement and chances to get there. Mist be another worldview, having a sophisticated engineering standpoint.
FSAE is the best thing that’s ever happened in my life. My team is disgustingly far from what they’re doing but it’s still a hell of a challenge to build a car with just students. Mad respect to those folks and hope that we can aspire to be like them. - MUR Motorsports Engineer
Good luck with your career in motorsports! Our electronics program in high school did a total conversion of an 80's Pontiac from gas to full electric and it was one of the hardest projects I worked on.
Same for me. I learned so much during my 4 years of FSAE, more than any class could ever teach. Now I’m doing my dream job as an F1 engineer! If are an aspiring engineer and you have the chance to join a student team (doesn’t have to be race cars), please take it!
Not FSAE but i took part in creating a hill climb prototype as a student project last year (as an aero engineer), the amount of experience and skill i gained in that single year is invaluable and it was the most gratifying thing being able to drive it in Assetto Corsa with our simulation results and seeing it actually be fast. If you get the opportunity to do something like that, do it and give it your all cause you might not get another opportunity
Trust me he is not playing it up. Going that fast that quickly is absolutely crazy... When my friend pressed the tesla 3 all the way down people very offten scream. And its like 300% slower than this...@@adammontgomery7980
When they replayed it from different angles all I kept hearing was the “Aaaaagh” from Tom as he hit the throttle,I watched it over and over and couldn’t stop laughing…😂😂😂😂 Brilliant job all around…
It’s so weird to think I know some of the people working on this car. I’ve played board games with them, watched them down Magerquark and dedicate themselves to the project (even in lectures lol). These people truly deserve a ton of respect for their achievements
Hopefully it's just to train engineers, cause of all the stuff Tom has ever shown, this is the least inspiring , and that includes staring at toast for 2 hours and the rainy cart ride. It's electric for 2 seconds. It's not difficult to do with big motors, big batteries and not having to worry about anything having time to get hot. The only thing neat about it is the ground suction, but even that is nothing new and something any engineer ought to be familiar with. it's how industrial printers got over not enough friction for paper to move through them fast enough 30 years ago. I'm more inspired by the "Power Racing Series" where you have to take a powerwheels kids toy and $500 and compete in actual races for 15 minutes and a 75 minute endurance race.
@@johngaltline9933 if it's not difficult to do, you do it. i bet with your immense intellect and incredible understanding of engineering, you could do it
Trouble is it's Switzerland. Having built their engineers, they're then told that there's a whole ton of laws that stop them having fun with their newly minted talents. Want to go fast-ish on the road? No. Want to build a dedicated racetrack on which to race it? Sorry, no. Want to make something noisy? Again, no. Want to wash it on the driveway on a Sunday morning? Sorry, no, not even that. Want to flush the toilet after 10pm having just designed it? Probably no. Want to emit a particle of smoke grilling some Gruyere at the party celebrating having built something? Again, probably no. Etc.... Want to have a firing range where the bullets are passing over a motorway? Surprisingly, yes! That last one is another Tom Scott vid, though the "safety" case for the range does rather assume that all ammunition is equal, and you never ever get a partially dud round that doesn't achieve the expected muzzle velocity.
The suction fans do 70% to 80% of the job to keep the car on the ground as much as possible without having to make it heavier and thus harder to stop its momentum. This technique is used in competitive RC racecars in very small tracks to keep the cars on the ground while they run at incredibly high speeds. The grip from the tires is just there to add as much friction as possible.
@@Lonech It's a combination of the electric engine cutting off and brakes. The gears are no longer getting power so that means the brakes don't have to do that much at all. Plus with it being fairly lightweight, it's not a lot of force to begin with.
You are seriously more impressed by the light weight car braking with the already built in traction increases rather than it going 0-100 in under 1s with a driver in it??????
2:37 A rollercoaster did WHAT now?! I couldn't even begin to imagine having to ride a crazy rollercoaster, let alone having my bones broken all while attempting to hold on for dear life.
I just want to say, I am immensely impressed that you got in there and did that for yourself. I love seeing the stuff you get up and try out in your videos, but this one is next level.
I loved the editing choice of having Chiara's explanation of the process over Tom's actual experience - it felt like very good preparation for hs viewers!
4:15 Let's just take a moment to appreciate that this is probably the closest we've seen Tom come to cursing (aside from the roller coaster vid I think but IIRC he wasn't trying) and he still didn't. That takes dedication
I've known he was a true professional when he was doing a stand-up comedy routine about emojis, someone bumped a glass, and he immediately paused for an edit break and picked up right where he left off. And it wasn't until it was pointed out afterward that he noticed it. He just automatically does these things. And that's why he's so damn good at it!
@@florahibernica Orignally it was, but this one is no longer legal for any FS(AE) competition. Often the teams and students use the "last years or older car" for testing and development of ideas, like this one where several mastertheses were published with it as a test bed (according to ETH, I'm not affiliated).
Formula Student is a design competition, where only students are allowed to work on the car's design and later on the car itself. Of course you want to be the best team on the grid, but the main goal is to gain knowledge and to use what you've learned in the university on a real group project. Therefore many car manufacturers are happy to give you a quite good job after you finished studying.
The fact that there's just a camera tripod and a car parked at the end of the track is a lot of confidence in the automatic shut down. No padding, no sand pit, just cold hard metal...
I am quite sure that except the automatic shutdown they're relying on the fact that energy amount in the accumulators won't be powering the motor for more then maybe 10 meters after the mark.
2009: Tom emulates the Top Gear style in Breaking the News 2022: Tom drives a go-kart backwards round a racetrack 2023: Tom does 0-100 in less than 1 second He's really come full circle, hasn't he?
My cousin took me for a ride in a Tesla model S and floored it on an empty road from a standstill. I'm usually able to keep my wits about me and I wasn't tense at all prior, but the g-force seemed to pull the scream out of my lungs. I couldn't help it, and it was just shy of 3 seconds of acceleration. Here, Tom accelerates twice as quickly for half the time, and his scream sounded exactly like mine.
You can see that the adrenaline was released from his adrenal glands when he takes off but it doesn't reach his brain until after he stops because that's how fast the car went. That's so insane from a biological standpoint as well!
Yup, that's what caught me too. He's standing still for about three seconds when you can see the adrenaline affecting his eyes. That thing must be absolutely crazy to experience yourself.
Great video! Putting a camera right in front of Tom's face while he was driving was a brilliant idea. Seeing his real-time reaction gave me far more of a sense of the speed the car was moving than I got from actually seeing the car move or even from the POV camera.
Can't believe how quickly Tom went from fearing roller-coasters to going on a full on bobsleigh to... this. As someone who fears roller-coasters, I'm not sure how much money I'd accept to do all 3 of these things, especially Olympic bobsleighing.
I was scared of roller coasters for a lot of years. And what cured it was a single front row seat ride in the fastest/biggest roller coaster in my region. It was so scary it scared me straight and they never bothered me since. I think it was just so intense it went backwards and just nothing seemed that bad compared
I don't like rollercoasters because of the height, but fast acceleration is fun! (though of course the levels of G here would be painful for anything more than a couple seconds)
@@MijinLaw I don't know what the top speed is on that thing is, but if you accelerate to that speed quickly the G's would lower because you're at that speed, making the G not that painful because it wouldn't've been more than a second. (source: Title)
@@PushingGG Sure. The part in the brackets was just because, if I say I like acceleration, inevitably someone would have replied with "That amount of acceleration would kill you within N minutes" or whatever.
Not even passing out under insane G force made Tom freak out like that before. I’ve never seen him so worked up. One of the most effective testimonials I can imagine when it comes to the intensity of an experience.
I remember watching a video about the "micro mouse" competition with tiny cars that navigate a maze. Their cars also have air fans to create enough grip to the ground for insane acceleration. Fun to see the same concept scaled-up to human size.
I think I love Tom's reaction after the car stops even more than the initial shout of amazement. It's almost like you can see his brain try to catch up processing everything that just happened xD
@@lfenrych I think the true limitation on top speed is lift. At a high enough speed and mass even a minor course deviation can send the vehicle screaming into the air like a piece of paper launched by a bottle rocket. It's why they put limiter plates on NASCAR vehicles, because breaking the 210mph barrier in a 3000lb plastic and steel cage puts you in the flight zone.
This is why even though the power of the big Mercs has gone insane over the last 20 years but the 0-60 is no faster than my old CL55 AMG - about 4 seconds cos you just cant get the tires to shove a heavy car faster than that.
@@DJR000Electric motors only apply proper braking force if the generated electricity is dumped into a load. If you just disconnect them, they will not do much in the way of braking at all.
Wow, a rollercoaster that was shutdown because it kept shattering peoples bones... And yes his scream from every angle was pure gold. Bravo to the team and everyone behind this amazing achievement!
@@JSSMVCJR2.1it is true. It's called Do Dodonpa at I think Fuji Q highland. As far as I know though they haven't finished their investigation yet as to why it's happening.
You've gotta admire Tom's commitment to covering so many different corms of transport. Most people with their own jetpack don't bother with cars or trains or elevators.
@@heathb4319 I had a bad feeling that someone was going to correct me on that one. :D But since we don't know when Tom recorded either of the videos, I was hoping that an estimate would suffice.
I was part of a formula student team during my bachelor's. The effort, and skills, required to build just a basic car that'll run a few KMs without breaking down is in itself a huge challenge. What these guys have built is absolutely amazing. ETH Zurich continues to be one of the top teams in formula student. And quite a few people actually join F1 teams from these student teams. The talent they have is amazing.
The amount of time spent on a project is directly proportional to the paleness of the engineers complexion 👻 These guys are almost transparent 😄 Obviously an all-consuming endeavor, which paid off! 🏆✨
@@SebWilkes That thing had such a high velocity over such a short amount of time that I think it skips acceleration being relevant and goes to the next time derivative of jerk. That's the measure that an accelerated rollercoaster makes you feel the most; it's so intense and your mind is just absolutely confused as to what is happening with jerk levels like that.
That looks like one hilarious ride - and I cannot even imagine the adrenaline-rush you'd get from that. Your pupils around 4:18 are a dead-giveaway of that.
My final, confirmed time was 0-100km/h in 1.398 seconds. If I want to beat the one-second mark, I need a warmer day, and to lose about 30kg!
:D
Nice
Did the Geforces Hurt your face?
I don't think losing 30kg is a very healthy option.
I also need to lose about 30kg, but for a different reason
I'm starting to see why Tom feels he doesn't have that many videos left in him - I thought he was retiring but it's more of a decreasing survival likelihood.
Next up "How deadly is a microwave? Part 2"
@@mickys8065 "I'm here at the rickety bridge of Timbuktu, which is suspended over a 150-metre drop. The locals here have let me have a go at crossing it."
@@mickys8065Too bad "Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?" is no longer a thing
@@glenngriffon8032 still love the airbag episode
@@glenngriffon8032 the hamster cryogenic video
Shoutout to the editor for making sure Tom's scream was in every shot of the car's acceleration
👍 👏
That probably wasn't too hard. The scream was probably audible on any recording that happened to take place at that moment within a 100 mile radius
@@CookingWithCows I don't think this is about difficulty. More just humor.
Certified storm trooper shout
@@claxvii177th6 Definitely a candidate for replacing the Wilhelm Scream.
I love that you don't turn every video into a 10 minute video. This one was awesome
Indeed, I hate when TH-camrs do that! 😠
felt like 20 minutes i had to skip the entire thing
understandable that you have an attention spam of a titktok user, the one above me
@@ProGenR exactly. cant even watch for 5 minutes, lmao. thats why i dont watch tiktok and shorts
@@ABek548 likewise mate
Props to the editor (and/or Tom) for knowing what the people want. Hearing Tom scream over and over again.
wait till we get a 1hr clean cut...
i could not stop laughing at that I almost cried
I noticed this too 😆 To hear Tom's "OOOOAAAAHH" over and over again made me giggle
seek god
@@paradiseexpress3639 no
The fact that Tom is driving has more shock value than the 0-100 in the title.
Wait, why is that shocking? He was driving in some other videos I think
more like the fact that anybody is driving/in it
It was self driving, he was just strapped in there
@@triangle_cat I think he didnt have a driving license for quite a long time.
I remember him crashing the backwards car
"faster than any roller coaster launch, besides one in Japan that's closed because it kept shattering people's bones" well now I want to know the story of that
Okay well the story is that in Japan, there's a roller coaster that kept shattering people's bones. Because of that, it's currently shut down and not doing any bone shattering.
They should open it again and just keep a fleet of gurneys and ambulances parked at the exit for the passengers’/victims’ convenience
@@RowdyBrian17It's called the Do-Dodonpa and it's in Fuji-Q Highland which is just at the foot of Mt Fuji.
It's a roller coaster called Do-Dodonpa. It's in Fuji-Q highland and it's a compressed air launced coaster.
I've been there right before they closed it, and I can confirm my neck didn't have a good time.
I literally just saw Tom at six flags in New Jersey casually riding rides by himself. This guy is a LEGEND!
Edit: *CONFIRMED* He emailed me back!! I was on the same roller coaster ride as TOM FREAKING SCOTT! Thank you so much for the reply Tom you are the man stay well with everything going on in the world!
congrats dude
Which ride was it and why was it Kingda Ka
@@natemcnutt953 it was nitro
@@natemcnutt953 it was nitro. He was 2 rows behind me
It was nitro!
I love how despite Toms geeky demeanour, he constantly ends up in adrenaline junky situations
His CV!
- Adventure to Arctic with Astronaut roommate
- Red Arrows back seater
- Unsuccessful pirate (tragic end to Captain Tom)
One day I’ll open TH-cam and see a video of Tom in Space…& that would feel normal.
@@North_West1 He's already had freefall and acceleration training...
Because he is becoming a adrenaline junkie himself.
More like „because of“
@@North_West1"One day I’ll open TH-cam and see a video of Tom in Space" - The logical next step after -the sandwich- garlic bread.
For those who are wondering about the Roller Coaster mentioned at 2:36, it's called Do-Dodonpa and is/was located at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Japan. It had a pneumatic launch system, and until 2016 featured a 49m tophat. The tophat was replaced and in 2017 it re-opened with a 39,7m diameter vertical loop.
Before it's closing in 2021 it was able to reach 0-180km/h (111.8 mph) in 1,56 seconds, which when averaged out is around 0-100 in 0.86 seconds. It was manufactured by S&S Worldwide.
thx!
we need the return of captain obvious!
@@teddyboragina6437 np!
this guy knows his roller coasters
I don't think I ever realized that Do-Dodonpa was capable of doing that. Wild.
The car is cool and all, butt Tom making fun of Hammond still gotta be my favorite part 😂
Where?
Hammond and Flintoff.
@@PhilippStadler About Hammod's track record in going really fast then crashing. Which is twice, but still.
@@PhilippStadler1:12 ☺️
@@PhilippStadler 1:12
I love your genuine reactions there, Tom! Just sitting in dismay for like 8 seconds before going "WHAT!?" is the most cromulent response to that experience I can imagine!
Thanks for a great new word in my lexicon.
(Had to look it up though...).
"There is quite a history of floppy-haired British TV presenters getting into high speed vehicles and ending up in hospital" - not only is Tom taking a dig at Hammond, Rimac know all too well this history personally. Brilliant!
Don't forget the rocket car
You left out the ORANGUTAN and Captn Slow.
What about Hammond and the orange rocket car. Watch that crash it's insane.
I think Tom was taking a dig about Vampire dragster not the Rimac on Swiss mountain.
yes and capn slow being to slow to get on the brakes in a norwegian tunnel
putting the parking lot directly down range of this test is a real statement of trust in the safety systems
Personally I think they should have ended with a ramp. THEN the parking lot.
@@pseudocoder78 I support this idea
@@pseudocoder78 a looping. then the ramp
Came here to say this
you said it@@jrenema
I love that the whole point isn't to build a fast car, it's to just have a cool project for engineering students to tackle.
Its a very good example that I know a lot of Universities here in Australia could learn from. They might even be able to achieve something like this if they didn't spend so much money on marketing.
TBF most of the money come form outside of the uni, often from sponsoring of some kind of engineering company, Fundraising is one of many parts of running a formula student team@@matthewphillips9083
Formula SAE and SAE Baja are projects a decent number of Universities tackle, but it isn't something all universities handle
yea fs@@matthewphillips9083
and this ain't cool ?......this is practically an inferno of a project. do you know how many people would pay to do that.
I love that these guys are using the ground suction technique that has been used now for many years by competitors in the "mini maze-solving robot" competitions. They compete to solve a maze as quickly as possible, and eventually pure friction became the limiting factor so they started putting tiny fans in the base, to literally suck on the ground. Now all the robots do it because you can't win without it.
Tom went from suspense to terror to disbelief faster then he could process it
Tom-dot-exe has stopped working, please wait....
based pfp
need a 1hr clean cut version...
*than
well, actually in 1.398 seconds
tom's reaction was absolutely priceless tbh
WHAT?????!!!!!!
I can't tell if the car is making a high-pitched gear whine, or Tom is screaming inside his helmet.
@@robinbennett5994 i think it's an mixture of both
Just drama for the cam.
I almost fell laughing 🤣
when he screamed "WHAT" after launch I felt that. The sheer panic in Tom's eyes is like I've never seen before. So genuine.
I don't think anything can prepare you for that experience
Maybe not so much panic, but most certainly an insane level of adrenaline.
He obviously wanted to say WTF 😂😂😂
I really admire how raw the footage of your reactions to experiences like this are.
On one hand seeing a few seconds if you catching your breath and looking stunned certainly helps to get across the gravity of an experience like this, but also for those of us who have been watching you for years, since our adolescence, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's come to admire you a great deal; and seeing you have these unpolished and candid reactions makes you seem more like everyone else and reminds me that one day I could be as great a man as Tom Scott just by continuing to make decisions I can stand behind and be proud of!
As a fellow Formula Student member, I absolutely love seeing these proyects and teams receive the recognition they deserve. What AMZ has built is an incredible feat of engineering given the team is for the most part composed of engineering students.
Formula Student is the best engineering project you could get into when studying your degree
This project will remove evry free second of your life and you will love it.
Can we get the Spongebob remixes out already plz? 😂
@@BoonBreyne ah, good old Shokolade at 6am on the campsite...
Literally came here to say this. Formula Student launched my carrier, helped to connect with passionate engineers and found a lot of joy in it,while learning a lot. If you are a university student, don't hesitate to join you local team, it will be the best decision you can make.
So stressful but so fun.
4:11 Tom hits the go button
4:13 Tom hits the stop button
4:23 Toms mind catches up with his body
love how the go button and stop button are 5x times shorter away from each other than it took for Tom's brain to catch up.
No matter how fast the body travels, the soul travels at the speed of a camel.
Technically, Tom doesn't hit the stop button. The car does that, because Tom can't possibly muster the executive function to do it.
@@loklan1 I think it's more about acceleration, but I see what you mean
Yea, they said the machine shuts its self off as soon as it reaches 100kph.
Tom: Im scared of modest roller coasters
Also Tom: Today I'm breaking the sound barrier in a toaster on wheels
that toaster has half a technical university behind it.
I'd trust them with my life, because they trust theirs with it.
@@GeorgeTsiros well i never said it was a bad toaster
He's overcome his fear of rollercoasters
@@SioGG Thanks to the toaster no doubt
@@stefevr I think I would too, but maybe develop a fear of toasters in the process
Tom: “I’m not allowed to drive this large passenger transport vehicle, thank you for letting me sit behind the wheel.”
Also Tom: “zero to one hundred kilometres per hour in under a second.”
I love how all his emotions and reactions were staggered over the next 10 seconds because his brain was almost catching up with everything haha. Absolutely incredible bit of engineering.
Almost like his soul got left behind at the starting line and it took that long for it to catch back up.
His body arrived 10 sec sooner than his brain:)
@@Eyes0penNoFear 🤣
I just assumed his brain was going “mustn’t swear, mustn’t swear”
Tom before: I am terrified of rollercoasters.
Tom now: I will now proceed to go from 0 to 100 in less than a second.
Rollercoaster fear isn't so much about the speed, but about the height and the potential fall. I wouldn't go near a rollercoaster, but I wouldn't have a problem trying out this car.
Also, you're in control of the car but not a roller coaster
he never did the 0-100 in under a sec !!!! ????????????? häääää
1.4sec is NOT "less than a sec" !!!
super brain....
@@rockdemon4485arguably not a plus.
@@livolas This car seems way more unsafe than a coaster which is a fixed guideway
I am a team lead for a rocketry team in Canada and ETH Zurich has an absolutely cracked rocketry team as well, flying higher than anyone else and building absolutely incredible vehicles. It's not surprising they have an elite formula car team as well. What that one guy said about "our goal isn't to build cars it is to build engineers" is absolutely true, and its something I bring to my rocketry team every day. Really well done to all the students working on this
Well i would just go for the Kaboom in case of rockets :)
What a lovely thing to say. You're a cool person :)
are you part of RockETS?
I would die to get the insight you have and use that for a valid opinion on what Elecrron and Starship really mean, in terms of achievement and chances to get there. Mist be another worldview, having a sophisticated engineering standpoint.
@@Fannystark007 come study engineering :D you will learn alot
I love that the car (being electric) is so quiet that you can hear his scream during the launch.
Little did we know the car IS loud and he just screams unhumanly loud
Tom is now one of the few people to have been both on a hovercraft and on a -reverse- hovercraft.
would like to see him try to serve drinks on this one.
@@mralistair737 The glass gets there fast, but the drink mostly stays at the start line...
suckercraft
@@Haeldayeah, that thing literally sucks... Sorry, couldn't resist
revohcraft
The biggest shock here was the not-so-subtle dig at Richard Hammond. That was low-key vicious.
And funny :)
It's the British thing to do
"...floppy haired British presenters..." 🤣🤣🤣
Does Freddie Flintoff count as “floppy-haired”? I figured he was referencing more than one here 😬
Nah not vicious, all in jest. And not just Richard Hammond either
Tom Scott is now officially 0.2 seconds younger than all of us
i don’t think time dilation is gonna be that large at this scale
@@peepeepoopoomachine well i´m sure he feels like he is^^
That offsets a little bit of the accelerated ageing Tom underwent on the Rollercoaster video 😱😱😱
If you ask me, he was like "I'm too old for this s817t! " 😀
As per his own statement he aged five secons in one
... so i guess he is older than all of us
I LOVE how Tom took a jab at both Richard AND James with that line!
FSAE is the best thing that’s ever happened in my life. My team is disgustingly far from what they’re doing but it’s still a hell of a challenge to build a car with just students. Mad respect to those folks and hope that we can aspire to be like them. - MUR Motorsports Engineer
Good luck with your career in motorsports! Our electronics program in high school did a total conversion of an 80's Pontiac from gas to full electric and it was one of the hardest projects I worked on.
FSAE makes the best engineers for any industry, not just motorsports.
Same for me. I learned so much during my 4 years of FSAE, more than any class could ever teach. Now I’m doing my dream job as an F1 engineer! If are an aspiring engineer and you have the chance to join a student team (doesn’t have to be race cars), please take it!
Same here!! Wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
Not FSAE but i took part in creating a hill climb prototype as a student project last year (as an aero engineer), the amount of experience and skill i gained in that single year is invaluable and it was the most gratifying thing being able to drive it in Assetto Corsa with our simulation results and seeing it actually be fast.
If you get the opportunity to do something like that, do it and give it your all cause you might not get another opportunity
It is really rare to see Tom Scott scared by something he does, but the look in his eyes as he slows down and stops looks like genuine fear to me.
He could barely control his breathing. That must have been some serious adrenaline.
He's playing it up
Nothing genuine about him.
@@jlaursonhe's so pretentious
Trust me he is not playing it up. Going that fast that quickly is absolutely crazy... When my friend pressed the tesla 3 all the way down people very offten scream. And its like 300% slower than this...@@adammontgomery7980
1:13 HAMMOND!
The car acceleration felt like a remote controlled toy.
When they replayed it from different angles all I kept hearing was the “Aaaaagh” from Tom as he hit the throttle,I watched it over and over and couldn’t stop laughing…😂😂😂😂 Brilliant job all around…
1:10 That absolutely killed me. Such a well delivered line.
loved that cheeky shoutout to his more car-centered british colleagues!
that was hilarious xD
Hammond?
@@diegobert4033exactly
"HAMMOND!!"@@diegobert4033
It’s so weird to think I know some of the people working on this car. I’ve played board games with them, watched them down Magerquark and dedicate themselves to the project (even in lectures lol). These people truly deserve a ton of respect for their achievements
I love it when people I know do amazing things. It reminds me that people can be fantastic.
Well now, what games did you play :)
@@michaeltang6290probably chess
Bonz
@fuwilliam schwör 👑
The statement of their mission was very expiring "Our mission is not to build racecars, it's to build up engineers" - Thank you for sharing!
_in_spiring, I conjecture?
@@RossReedstrom I dunno; if it leaves them-out-of-breath, it could be EXpiring.
Inspiring, is what I am thinking.
Hopefully it's just to train engineers, cause of all the stuff Tom has ever shown, this is the least inspiring , and that includes staring at toast for 2 hours and the rainy cart ride. It's electric for 2 seconds. It's not difficult to do with big motors, big batteries and not having to worry about anything having time to get hot. The only thing neat about it is the ground suction, but even that is nothing new and something any engineer ought to be familiar with. it's how industrial printers got over not enough friction for paper to move through them fast enough 30 years ago. I'm more inspired by the "Power Racing Series" where you have to take a powerwheels kids toy and $500 and compete in actual races for 15 minutes and a 75 minute endurance race.
@@johngaltline9933 if it's not difficult to do, you do it. i bet with your immense intellect and incredible understanding of engineering, you could do it
4:16 the look on Tom's face... pure adrenaline, excitement, and terror all just plastered into the same figure
"Our mission is not to build race cars, it is to build up engineers."
Absolutely love it.
Trouble is it's Switzerland. Having built their engineers, they're then told that there's a whole ton of laws that stop them having fun with their newly minted talents. Want to go fast-ish on the road? No. Want to build a dedicated racetrack on which to race it? Sorry, no. Want to make something noisy? Again, no. Want to wash it on the driveway on a Sunday morning? Sorry, no, not even that. Want to flush the toilet after 10pm having just designed it? Probably no. Want to emit a particle of smoke grilling some Gruyere at the party celebrating having built something? Again, probably no. Etc.... Want to have a firing range where the bullets are passing over a motorway? Surprisingly, yes!
That last one is another Tom Scott vid, though the "safety" case for the range does rather assume that all ammunition is equal, and you never ever get a partially dud round that doesn't achieve the expected muzzle velocity.
Im actually more impressed by how incredibly quick it stopped
I'm impressed by how much they trust the brakes to not fail while facing the run path directly into several parked cars.
The suction fans do 70% to 80% of the job to keep the car on the ground as much as possible without having to make it heavier and thus harder to stop its momentum. This technique is used in competitive RC racecars in very small tracks to keep the cars on the ground while they run at incredibly high speeds. The grip from the tires is just there to add as much friction as possible.
The world record from 0-100-0 for both kmh and mph looks beatable by that car.
@@Lonech It's a combination of the electric engine cutting off and brakes. The gears are no longer getting power so that means the brakes don't have to do that much at all. Plus with it being fairly lightweight, it's not a lot of force to begin with.
You are seriously more impressed by the light weight car braking with the already built in traction increases rather than it going 0-100 in under 1s with a driver in it??????
Love the subtle Richard Hammond reference at 1:17
Hammond catching strays
Not really sure about the "subtle" part tho :D
That sqeuence from 4:10-4:24 is pure gold. Tom's reaction is priceless
Props to the editors for letting us hear tom's fearful shriek multiple times, high quality
What I came here to say. Cheeky video editors is one reason I like TH-camrs so much!
Another one… another one… another one
Wow, you out-accelerated the Hamster, Captain Slow, and the Oaf. Well done, Tom!
The repetition of Tom screaming for all the different angles is a hilarious editing choice.
we need a 1hr clean cut version
2:37 A rollercoaster did WHAT now?! I couldn't even begin to imagine having to ride a crazy rollercoaster, let alone having my bones broken all while attempting to hold on for dear life.
What did my boy Hammond do to get called out like that? 🤣
I was thinking the same thing and had flashbacks like Vietnam
He crashed, thought that was very clear
Clarkson too. Only once(GT-R) afaik tho.
Be a "blithering idiot" in the words of Clarkson
I don’t get it either since we all know he is American.
Thank you so much editors! That was Tom's best scream ever, and you made sure it was well featured 🤣
The editors are the true heroes on TH-cam
Much love to the editors ❤
So it's safe to say that Tom has gone faster from 0-100 than Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen ever have.
I woulds love to see Tom in an actual Formula 1 car, but they may not let him do it. It takes years to be able to drive one.
Now we need to get Tom in an F1 car
wow, good point!!!
@@Jwats96 That's true, maybe he's got a ride in one of those lined up for a future video.
@@Zerbeyactually, there's been multiple novice drivers who have driven F1 cars
I just want to say, I am immensely impressed that you got in there and did that for yourself. I love seeing the stuff you get up and try out in your videos, but this one is next level.
Swiss guy: We need to build up engineers.
Other Swiss guy: Let's build a vehicle that breaks the world record.
Narrator: They are the same Swiss guy.
Well people have many needs
They both seem to have succeeded.
If you want to make an omelette, you have to break some eggheads.
Japanese rollercoaster engineers: Let's build a rollercoaster that breaks _people_.
I loved the editing choice of having Chiara's explanation of the process over Tom's actual experience - it felt like very good preparation for hs viewers!
4:15 Let's just take a moment to appreciate that this is probably the closest we've seen Tom come to cursing (aside from the roller coaster vid I think but IIRC he wasn't trying) and he still didn't. That takes dedication
That's exactly what I thought😂
I knew he wanted to cuss but stopped himself.
He definitely earned my respect there.
He did curse when he burned his hand in the Tom Scott Plus blacksmithing video. He bleeped it out though.
I've known he was a true professional when he was doing a stand-up comedy routine about emojis, someone bumped a glass, and he immediately paused for an edit break and picked up right where he left off. And it wasn't until it was pointed out afterward that he noticed it. He just automatically does these things. And that's why he's so damn good at it!
Very sad to think this era of Tom Scott videos will end someday soon but I hope Tom very much enjoys his rest for what must be a very heavy schedule
Holy heck, that thing didn't accelerate, it moved the earth around it 😮
everytime this car launches a tiny tsunami starts at the other side of the globe 😅
It came to them in a dream. That's what being a scientist is all about.
you saying the car created warp bubble? and did warp jump
@@andybrice2711 And these are the different lengths of wire they used to build it.
it's insane. when it drives it looks like the human-sized car equivalent of the acceleration of toy cars
4:21 Strong contender for best Tom Scott reaction ever
*W H A T*
It takes off so fast it looks like an RC car.
1:13
I love a good Richard Hamster reference.
"Our mission is not to build race cars, but to build up engineers." - engineer after building a literal race car
Not a legal one though!
@@florahibernica Orignally it was, but this one is no longer legal for any FS(AE) competition. Often the teams and students use the "last years or older car" for testing and development of ideas, like this one where several mastertheses were published with it as a test bed (according to ETH, I'm not affiliated).
@@florahibernica Not street-legal perhaps, but neither are many other racecars. You could drive this on a closed track.
Formula Student is a design competition, where only students are allowed to work on the car's design and later on the car itself.
Of course you want to be the best team on the grid, but the main goal is to gain knowledge and to use what you've learned in the university on a real group project.
Therefore many car manufacturers are happy to give you a quite good job after you finished studying.
Sometimes you build a race car by accident. It happens to the best of us.
The fact that there's just a camera tripod and a car parked at the end of the track is a lot of confidence in the automatic shut down. No padding, no sand pit, just cold hard metal...
I am quite sure that except the automatic shutdown they're relying on the fact that energy amount in the accumulators won't be powering the motor for more then maybe 10 meters after the mark.
2009: Tom emulates the Top Gear style in Breaking the News
2022: Tom drives a go-kart backwards round a racetrack
2023: Tom does 0-100 in less than 1 second
He's really come full circle, hasn't he?
Actually 1.398 seconds, but 2023 is not over yet
2024: Tom flies to space in a SpaceX modified Tesla
Where is the go cart video
Don't forget the Hampster line of floppy-haired British presenters in cars that go fast...
Now all he need to do is get into a crash and go full Richard Hammond.
My cousin took me for a ride in a Tesla model S and floored it on an empty road from a standstill. I'm usually able to keep my wits about me and I wasn't tense at all prior, but the g-force seemed to pull the scream out of my lungs. I couldn't help it, and it was just shy of 3 seconds of acceleration.
Here, Tom accelerates twice as quickly for half the time, and his scream sounded exactly like mine.
You can see that the adrenaline was released from his adrenal glands when he takes off but it doesn't reach his brain until after he stops because that's how fast the car went. That's so insane from a biological standpoint as well!
Yup, that's what caught me too. He's standing still for about three seconds when you can see the adrenaline affecting his eyes. That thing must be absolutely crazy to experience yourself.
The truly amazing thing is that after a few goes, his brain will just shrug.
@@boratsagdiyev5679that was not the look of fear of joy... It was the face of pure overwhelming adrenaline and mortality
Nice observation!
You notice how hard and deep breaths he has to take after.. His heart is beating at a crazy pace as well.
+ 3 g’s.
Great video! Putting a camera right in front of Tom's face while he was driving was a brilliant idea. Seeing his real-time reaction gave me far more of a sense of the speed the car was moving than I got from actually seeing the car move or even from the POV camera.
I'm just as impressed with however they mounted that GoPro. My suction cup wouldn't have held up.
Can't believe how quickly Tom went from fearing roller-coasters to going on a full on bobsleigh to... this. As someone who fears roller-coasters, I'm not sure how much money I'd accept to do all 3 of these things, especially Olympic bobsleighing.
I was scared of roller coasters for a lot of years. And what cured it was a single front row seat ride in the fastest/biggest roller coaster in my region. It was so scary it scared me straight and they never bothered me since. I think it was just so intense it went backwards and just nothing seemed that bad compared
I don't like rollercoasters because of the height, but fast acceleration is fun! (though of course the levels of G here would be painful for anything more than a couple seconds)
@@MijinLaw I don't know what the top speed is on that thing is, but if you accelerate to that speed quickly the G's would lower because you're at that speed, making the G not that painful because it wouldn't've been more than a second. (source: Title)
@@PushingGG Sure. The part in the brackets was just because, if I say I like acceleration, inevitably someone would have replied with "That amount of acceleration would kill you within N minutes" or whatever.
Not even passing out under insane G force made Tom freak out like that before. I’ve never seen him so worked up. One of the most effective testimonials I can imagine when it comes to the intensity of an experience.
No 'insane' g force, it is just 2 g
@@jibinsebastianishere not what I was saying.
@@jibinsebastianishere actually 2.7g, not really too much still
@@MRtecno98 nope 2.03 g
I remember watching a video about the "micro mouse" competition with tiny cars that navigate a maze. Their cars also have air fans to create enough grip to the ground for insane acceleration. Fun to see the same concept scaled-up to human size.
I was thinking the same thing.
f1 team brabham had this for a few races in the 70s before it was deemed illegal, search for brabham fan car
I think I love Tom's reaction after the car stops even more than the initial shout of amazement. It's almost like you can see his brain try to catch up processing everything that just happened xD
1:25 poor Richard Hammond hahahhaha
Electric motors are no joke when it comes to torque. The limiting factor for acceleration is always the tyres
If I remember correctly wasn't the limiting factor on top speed also tyres mostly?
@@Z38_US air resistance is the main limitation on top speed.
@@Z38_US anything to do with top speed and acceleration often have the biggest problem of resistance: tyres and aero. bottleneck here is mostly tyres.
@@lfenrych I think the true limitation on top speed is lift. At a high enough speed and mass even a minor course deviation can send the vehicle screaming into the air like a piece of paper launched by a bottle rocket. It's why they put limiter plates on NASCAR vehicles, because breaking the 210mph barrier in a 3000lb plastic and steel cage puts you in the flight zone.
This is why even though the power of the big Mercs has gone insane over the last 20 years but the 0-60 is no faster than my old CL55 AMG - about 4 seconds cos you just cant get the tires to shove a heavy car faster than that.
I like how they were so confident Tom will execute this flawlessly, that they parked the car 50 meters straight in front of the braking zone.
The car would automatically shut down when it reaches 100km/h, they are really confident with their contraption more like 😅
@@ak_norathe power shuts off but it was still up to Tom to apply the brakes
@@mxhddrElectric cars do not work the same. As soon as the power cuts off, the motors cause friction which equals auto braking
@@DJR000Electric motors only apply proper braking force if the generated electricity is dumped into a load. If you just disconnect them, they will not do much in the way of braking at all.
What about the pump that sucks air up from underneath? Isn't it meant to increase traction too?
That face cam POV with the people behind him quickly zooming away looked like one of those starship hyperdrive launches from sci-fi 😂
Punch it, Chewey!
I'm surprised nobody talks about the part about how hard it brakes and the forces involved.
at 4:10
this thing is so light, they probably could have used some standard sportscar breaks for that @@autohmae
R-r-r-redline!
Hahaha, such a visceral scream. I love it. Then the WHAT? WHAT? This was so fun to see.
"Quite a history of floppy-haired British presenters getting into high-speed vehicles and ending up in hospital" - HAMMMONDDD!!!
Wow, a rollercoaster that was shutdown because it kept shattering peoples bones... And yes his scream from every angle was pure gold. Bravo to the team and everyone behind this amazing achievement!
Japanese are generally slight people with thinner bones. Probably middle aged women beginning osteoporosis.
I'm hearing "future Tom Scott vid"
Is that true though? Are there any evidence behind the claim?
@@JSSMVCJR2.1it is true. It's called Do Dodonpa at I think Fuji Q highland. As far as I know though they haven't finished their investigation yet as to why it's happening.
look up Do-Dodonpa at Fuji-Q Highlands. It's all very well documented! @@JSSMVCJR2.1
The repeated takes of Tom screaming really make this. Mad respect for dedication to the craft, Tom. ;)
Love the Richard Hammond reference.
Old Tom: I'm afraid of riding on roller coasters.
New Tom: I have the need, the need for speed.
wasn't Tom2 a different Tom?
You've gotta admire Tom's commitment to covering so many different corms of transport. Most people with their own jetpack don't bother with cars or trains or elevators.
My favourite corm of transport is trains. I like trains.
From "I have a fear of rollercoasters" to "I drove a car that accelerates faster than rollercoasters" in 16 months flat. Not bad!
That would be 16.274 months sir. :)
@@heathb4319 I had a bad feeling that someone was going to correct me on that one. :D
But since we don't know when Tom recorded either of the videos, I was hoping that an estimate would suffice.
I appreciate that they included Tom's screaming with each replay of the run.
I was part of a formula student team during my bachelor's. The effort, and skills, required to build just a basic car that'll run a few KMs without breaking down is in itself a huge challenge.
What these guys have built is absolutely amazing. ETH Zurich continues to be one of the top teams in formula student. And quite a few people actually join F1 teams from these student teams. The talent they have is amazing.
The sound Tom made is now part of his legacy.
This and the roller coasters
At this point that's just "violent teleportation".
The amount of time spent on a project is directly proportional to the paleness of the engineers complexion 👻
These guys are almost transparent 😄 Obviously an all-consuming endeavor, which paid off! 🏆✨
Tom Scott is that one guy you know who keeps talking about the crazy things he claims to have done, except he has videos on TH-cam to back that up
Never have I appreciated Tom's expressive eyes more than in this video! At least 10 emotions flashing by as fast as the car!
Fun fact about dragsters.
The exhaust is angles upwards because it supplies a non trivial amount of ground pressure!
the look in your eyes was WILD
Tom's cry of surprise/exhilaration is now my ring tone. One day, I'm sure it will surpass the Wilhelm scrream
So it shall be done.
It will add to the canon of Tom Scott vapes and xfpt and Tom Scott tries hot sauce
I love that you can see the moment Tom catches himself from swearing profusely😅
It would have been fully earned.
I think he did, the audio is just blanked out. You can see the "F***" in his expression and how his head moves
Hearing Tom scream each time it played from a different angle was priceless!
I wonder what his heart rate got up to.
we need a 1hr cleancut...
1:13 This is definitely a reference to Richard Hammond and his unfortunate habit of crashing cars.
Speed really is the purest drug there is. the look on Tom's face really says it all. glad you go to experience that!
not speed; acceleration
@@SebWilkes That thing had such a high velocity over such a short amount of time that I think it skips acceleration being relevant and goes to the next time derivative of jerk. That's the measure that an accelerated rollercoaster makes you feel the most; it's so intense and your mind is just absolutely confused as to what is happening with jerk levels like that.
*adrenaline
You really do quickly get comfortable with acceleration though and want something faster
Currently I'm travelling at the speed of around 1500 km/h around the axis of the earth but I wouldn't call myself an addict
That looks like one hilarious ride - and I cannot even imagine the adrenaline-rush you'd get from that. Your pupils around 4:18 are a dead-giveaway of that.
the literal definition of "things just went 0 to 100 real quick"
Love the little jab at Richard Hammond
Tom's reaction to watching that car pull off, and knowing he's going in there next is priceless