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In this episode, which is personally among my favorites, Adam and Jamie test out the age-old movie myth: Can a pursuing car be stopped by road spikes, a smokescreen, or an oil slick?
Road Spikes: Not really. Although the tires were often punctured by the road spikes, the tires didn't deflate because the spikes were stuck in the holes they had made, which allowed the car to keep driving.
Smokescreen: It's iffy. Although the test eventually worked out, it was proven that the person using the smokescreen would have had to be pretty well prepared first, because you'd need an airtight car and/or a gas mask so as not to have the smoke sucked into your own vehicle.
Oil Slick: Maybe. The pursuit car lost control when it hit the oil slick, and was forced to slow down, but it didn't spin out spectacularly like you see in the movies. Sadly.
In addition, Adam and Jamie each devised a mechanism to try to divert the car. Adam developed a rig that deployed and dropped a parachute onto the pursuit car, to try to blind them. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way, the car simply drove around the parachute. Jamie, however developed a set of spikes. See the video above.
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