Sometimes, a car video comes along that’s so bizarre we can’t help but share it with our readers. Jumping a burning car into a frozen lake? We covered it. A functioning “digital” clock comprised of real cars? Covered that too, and don’t get us started on all the bonkers contraptions we’ve seen from the Garage 54 team. Through it all, we’ve never seen a car dropped on a massive trampoline. Until now.
We suspect many of you are already familiar with Mark Rober and his YouTube channel. It’s filled with all kinds of cool science-related content, and this trampoline exhibition is no exception. Admittedly, there’s nothing terribly scientific about dropping a car from a tower onto a trampoline. Getting the car to actually bounce, however, required all kinds of scientific number crunching to build a trampoline that could handle such a feat.
To that end, Rober worked with friends to create the mother of all trampolines. The process…