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The Autobahn

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Season 1 : Ep. 2|45:55|

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Imagine a super-highway designed for speed, thousands of miles of roadway unhindered by limits of any kind where drivers can go as fast as their Porsches will carry them. Hide Description

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Season:Episode	Title	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
Season 1
18	Dredging	44:48	08/03/2005
17	Snow	44:24	12/10/2006
16	The Pig	44:22	11/27/2007
15	The Lumberyard	44:38	11/30/2005
14	Nuts	45:02	08/02/2006
13	Barbarian Battle Tech	44:19	03/04/2007
12	Copper	44:44	09/13/2006
11	Failed Inventions	44:34	12/10/2003
10	Deep Sea Salvage	44:24	03/14/2007
9	The World's Biggest Machines	44:42	05/14/2002
7	Tea	44:28	12/13/2006
6	Ben Franklin Tech	44:45	05/25/2006
5	Corn	45:02	11/19/2007
4	Heavy Metals	45:24	06/14/2006
3	Extreme Aircraft	45:36	08/25/2004
2	The Autobahn	45:55	09/17/2002
1	The Manhattan Project	45:54	06/04/2002

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-	Garage Gadgets - Garage Door	Video Clip	03:12	02/01/2007
-	Garage Gadgets - Weed Whacker	Video Clip	03:09	02/01/2007
-	Garage Gadgets - Rake	Video Clip	02:09	02/01/2007
-	Garage Gadgets - Barbeque	Video Clip	03:42	02/01/2007
-	Environmental Tech: Carbon Sequestration	Video Clip	03:32	01/24/2007
-	Battle Gear - Medieval Armor Making	Video Clip	03:28	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Wheel	Video Clip	01:38	01/15/2007
-	Valentines Day - History of Chocolate	Video Clip	02:21	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Light Bulb	Video Clip	03:19	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Television	Video Clip	02:49	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Battery	Video Clip	05:31	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Computers	Video Clip	04:07	01/15/2007
-	Great Inventions - Car	Video Clip	03:55	01/15/2007
-	Digi Tech - MP3 and iPod	Video Clip	05:03	01/15/2007
-	Valentines Day - How Chocolate is Made	Video Clip	02:53	01/15/2007

12 days ago

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yeah because you can stop yourself from hydroplaning if you're used to speeding... right have fun in the ditch or the hospital See 7 other replies

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Or a Florida plate ;) See 7 other replies

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i would like to see some highways where we could drive as fast as our car's would go! that would be cool

2 months ago

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Some of the sound effects while they're driving down the autobahn in the beginning of the film is of a motorcycle or formula 1-style car... Did anyone else notice that?

2 months ago

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You know, for the longest time, I was struggling to understand why gas mileage lowered so dramatically with higher speeds. Drag. I feel like a total idiot for leaving it out of the equation. I've even mentioned drag in another debate on hulu (regarding the amount of fuel necessary for a vehicle to escape lunar orbit), and for some reason I just never even thought about it otherwise. Duh. Thank you Serge and Jeebus. See 6 other replies

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Here's the issue - cars in the US aren't made for safety at speed in any environment. Cars destined for Germany's Autobahn are a totally different breed. It also doesn't help that DRIVERS in the US aren't able to cope with such speeds. High quality Driver's Education should be MANDATORY in school, and you should be required to get a very high grade in that class in order to be able to drive, *especially* on highways. I'd say that anyone could be able to get a license for street use, but highways and interstates should be restricted use only (IE, to those with the proper education and skill). See 7 other replies

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The "sweet spot" the speed at which a vehicle, plane, car, boat, gets the best fuel economy is completely dependent upon the individual vehicle and varies greatly, since gearing, engine, and many other factors are involved. If you're getting maximum efficiency around 45mph you must be running very low ratio gearing, most modern automobiles have their sweet spots between 60 and 80 mph. See 6 other replies

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