DRYving A Convertible In The Rain? | MythBusters

so what's up with the umbrellas I'm planning to use them to paint a metaphorical picture I want you to imagine that you are having a midlife crisis and you run out and spend a bunch of your dough on a really nice

convertible sports car okay now further imagine that you're driving it down the street and it starts to rain what do you do you pull over and you put the top up aha that's where the fansite myth states that you might be wrong that instead of

wasting your time putting the top up that you should floor It Go as fast as you can because there is a speed at which you can drive that no rain will enter the driver's compartment sounds kind of unsafe to me sounds really fun

to test to me aerodynamics dangerous wet weather driving and a classic Urban

myth this is mythbuster country because viewers want to know if you've got the top down when it starts raining will putting your foot down keep

you dry so does this mean we get to drive a fancy car really fast in the rain we do but we are in sunny California and that presents a little bit of a problem I think just as we did in running in the

rain we're going to have to manufacture our own rain here it's a bit of a chore but I think we can handle that we still get to drive a really fancy car fast in the rain though right yes but slow down there Cowboy I think perhaps we ought to

take this model car and run some shop tests sprinkle some water at it look at it on high speed see if there's anything at all to this m and then we get to drive a really fancy car fast in the rain okay look we'll get some driving

lessons we'll wet down some tarmac we'll go out next thing and drive a fancy car all right all right so to keep rev head he and happy they Shel the shop tests in

favor of well the first thing on our agenda is to get some training in foul weather driving on wet roads and in lovely sunny California there's nothing better for that than a perfect sunny

day odd being the Boy Scouts that they are they came prepared to make their own oh made of rainbow look at that this is going to be fun that's the

bad weather so all we need now is a convertible car you've seen MythBusters before you know that generally when we have cars

they explode but not that one I don't think pretty Snappy I think I know what I want for Christmas this year

guiding the guys through their wet weather driving instruction is Brian Fraser Brian's the guy that trains anybody that drives an emergency vehicle

how to do it right that means police fire ambulances Brian's a guy there's that under steer you go a little bit of steering out you felt the catch

right if I had a car like that I wouldn't be letting Adam drive it harsh but given Adam's track record and current over caffeinated moves [Music]

fair I might have gotten the microphone wet there for a second despite Adam's best efforts the microphone still works and they get down to business well the surface is now wet we're going to lose

that cohesion between the tires and the concrete surface we're on a concrete pad out here [Applause] today hydroplaning can also be a Factor

if we got standing water ways to deal with this are get off the gas slow our speed down it's going to multiply any reaction that we do so you want to not be jerky in your

steering movements so just smoothing out your steering and backing off speed and keep you in control of the car the clearest difference between

driving on the wet ground versus the dry ground is that it's a lot slipperier oh sorry about that mostly this feels to me like getting a handle on where out of control is that's the

trick once you know where out of control is you can back off from it or you can sneak up to it without getting in too much danger try to get a flag straight down

out there you go I lost my hat we're just trying to get comfortable with this scenario so if we hit something unknown out there on the testing site we can recover safely and that's the key by

simply getting to grips with the car on a wet surface they can be sure they won't lose their heads at high speeds on the real

test which means they're licensed for wet weather science I keep losing my hat