Modded by the folks at The Shop in Tampa, Florida over the course of 6 months, the TMC-12X is a Tesla Model X Plaid that’s been outfitted to look like the time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 from Back To The Future. The car does 0-62MPH in about 2.4 seconds, and even makes
Because who needs autonomous vehicles when we can trust our lives to rat taxis, these are a couple videos of rescue pet rats Kronk and Kuzko demonstrating their driving skills while being taught by their owners how to steer their own little cars. It appears the car has three buttons:
Presumably determined to never get spun around by a red shell or banana peel again, this is a video of a dude cruising around in his homemade 19-tire go kart (I partiand a coffin-shaped gas tank right behind the seat). ULTRA TRACTION. Although most of those tires look like they’re
Because everybody uses their spare time differently (I have no spare time), this is a video of Youtuber Chris Makes Stuff constructing a hubless, electric penny farthing bike. The hubless design is cool, but the motorization is a must — pedaling is one of my least favorite part of riding
This is a video of a man using a milk crate on a rope in order to climb into his raised truck, towing the crate back into the cab behind him after lifting himself into the cockpit. It’s like a booster seat but for getting into a truck, and is
This is a video from the cabin of Ixonia, Wisconsin Amazon driver Alexander Evans’s truck when an Amtrak train cuts the vehicle in half right behind Alexander’s seat after crossing the tracks. This is why I always look both ways at train crossings, then turn around and go back home.
This is a video of Robert “Crazy Rocketman” Maddox (previously) riding the Rocket Board, a homemade rocket-powered skateboard he constructed. It’s pretty glorious. Also I love how he trusts his invention enough to not wear a helmet while one-handing the controls so he can selfie-stick himself with the other. Clearly,
This is a video of a cyclist swerving to avoid a car that blatantly turns right in front of him (I suspect that car does NOT have a ‘Share The Road’ bumper sticker attached) and crashing into the balloon display a worker is setting up. Did those balloons actually help