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  1. Fun fact from an industry insider: in many cases, the automakers had already identified and designed solutions for the problems that IIHS testing would later bring to light. The automakers calculated that they would lose money if they implemented these changes, however, so it's a good thing that testing authorities like the IIHS called the public's attention to these issues, since otherwise they might have never gotten solved!
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  2. I really love this style. "Here's how it used to work when it was invented." "Here's how things have gotten much better." "Here's some issues today." "Here's how we can make it even better in the future!" I look forward to videos on all the topics YOU find interesting! We'll be here waiting for more.
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  3. The one thing that is often ignored in the US and leads to a ton of SUVs and trucks is that crash tests rarely involve persons outside the car. Yet cars crashing into pedestrians and cyclists at low speed is super common! Adipositas cars (SUVs) usually fare badly here.
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  4. Yesssss, more engineering of rudimentary objects! It's always cool seeing the little design changes and eureka moments that can lead to huge changes in products and objects that affect daily life.
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  5. As a fire engineer, I have to say: extremely well done! I liked your focus on stay put/shelter in place policies, that’s generally what we want people to do in the UK. However, as this is for an international audience, I’d like to touch on a few points: Know your building Get familiar with the plans and notices posted in YOUR building. Know and follow their advice. Know your escape routes. Know what to do when you hear the fire alarm go off. This goes for your home as well as your place of work. Don’t fight the fire Unless there is a very small fire, outdoors, on a calm day, you a) won’t be doing much with a fire extinguisher anyways and b) risk smoke inhalation, which has extremely dangerous short and long term effects. Stand up for your fire safety Make sure access and egress routes are clear. Talk to neighbours who block the hallways with unnecessary items. Don’t let people park illegally in fire lanes, not even for a few minutes. Demand that your buildings fire equipment is serviced regularly, make sure fire doors close well and close automatically. If your building managers refuse to do something, talk to your city’s fire department, they can conduct an inspection and enforce the fire code. Get involved Some cities have volunteer firefighters, others have other volunteer positions. If you want, get involved, they’ll be happy to welcome you.
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  6. I wish my city had safe cycling infrastructure. I feel like I'm risking my life everyday on my car commute.
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  7. 8:06 SQUIRREL! 🙂 Seriously, thank you for the insight on this. You didn't go into more depth about the recommendations you'd like to see for tyre testing, but if you did want to do a vid on that, I'd be in the audience for watching it. Have fun 🙂
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  8. I’m a civil engineer specialized in water resources and you did a fantastic job making such critical (yet mundane) infrastructure very interesting. Also great to see the actual manning’s equation when discussing open channel flow. Great work! I will definitely be subscribing.
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  9. I'm quite surprised how you don't mention EuroNCAP at all. It's what Europe has been using for deciding what kind of cars are safe, and which most likely mutually helped the US crash tests.
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  10. The tests from the IIHS focus on half of the equation : the injuries sustained by occupants of the car considered by the test. What is missing is: what is the potential damage to occupants of the other car? If you don't consider that side of the problem, then you could end up in a "race to the biggest, heaviest car", which would be terrible for other road users. Not only other cars, which won't be able to absorb the energy from being hit by a heavier car, but pedestrians and other road users. Those bigger cars are often higher, and offer poor visibility on their immediate surroundings. We would probably all be safer overall if that "other half of the problem" was considered by regulators.
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  11. thanks for spending 100s of hours testing and reviewing dash cameras...and then sharing your findings with us.
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  12. The production value on this is incredible. You strike a rare balance of both teaching me new things and also making a palatable video that I can watch while eating lunch. Keep it up bro
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  13. Now cover japan's insane power grid, half 50hz and half 60hz, which prevents load shifting and causes bottlenecks in the grid.
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  14. It still kinda blows my mind that you went from dashcam videos (which were good, they are why I bought my dashcam, and how I found you) to these absolutely awesome videos! I hope the algorithm pushes your videos like it should. Your channel could easily blow up. I hope it does. Keep up the good work!
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  15. The Best dash cam reviewer on YouTube
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  16. Oh boy I thought this channel was dead, glad to see you back!
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  17. as a tire and alignment guy for the past 25 yrs, I can appreciate all the upgrades in tire engineering and equipment to install them.....i have worked on Coats machines in the early 80s to Hunter machines of today and a lot of the technology has to do with TPMS, alloy and aluminum rims and very stiff and short sidewalls of tires...these weren't big issues in the 80s and 90s for mass tire installations...but as cars got lighter and materials weren't steel anymore, the equipment had to change with the designs...as a big truck alignment mechanic, I saw the differences in a 250 dollar tire and a 400 dollar Michelin and YES, there is a difference...the same goes with car tires and cheaper tires, you get what you pay for a lot of the times.....a video on worn tire testing would be a great idea because all new tires perform pretty well...it's the ones that are half worn and can't drive through a small puddle of water or a wet highway that are the ones to be concerned about...great video and i think you are just scratching the surface on what you can make videos about...thanks
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  18. Firefighter from the U.S. here. I love what you said near the end about the dangers of house fires next to highrise apartment fires. Houses built in the modern day are filled to the brim with synthetic materials, like plastics and foams. These building materials, while significantly cheaper, are also extremely dangerous in fires. When they burn, they give off extremely toxic byproducts, be it by smoke, or gas. Another thing that you touched on, but I really want to emphasize. ALWAYS SLEEP WITH YOUR DOOR CLOSED!!! This gives you waaayyy more time to react to your smoke alarms (assuming they work, of course (change the batteries when they ask you to, please!)) and either escape, or shelter in place effectively. Even those cheap and hollow interior residential doors can keep you safe from extreme heat or fire for several minutes.
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  19. I was involved in an accident like a month ago, and it was a small overlap type crash. I was riding in a small suv going to my home at around 50kph (30mph) when a drunk guy in a sedan hit me at around 140kph (~86mph), I was going uphill so the other car kind of slides under mine but still manage to impact like the test in your Honda fit. The floor of the car took the impact and broke one of the seat attachments, my car ended up like the shot at 16:41 but way worse in the underside, the A pillar actually held on pretty well leaving some space to not be absolutely crushed like in the test. Luckily, I only sustain minor damages with the worst things being that I broke a little bit of the lumbar area of the spine and broke my left foot, all recovering fine btw. Anyway cars are pretty safe nowadays, I also have an old Fiat with no safety features, so glad I wasn't driving it that day. Yours is too, just remember to wear your seatbelt, just don't crash that way 🤠 Sorry for my English, my first language is Spanish, Love your content, and keep it up!
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  20. I love these reviews and recommend this channel to anyone looking for a dash cam.This guy will assist and answer any questions you ask him.
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  21. Oh, yes! Technology Connections made a similar video regarding types of smoke alarms
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  22. 17:27 engineering an entire building to waterproof the first floor with watertight doors and reinforced windows Andrew Lam: "small details"
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  23. I really hope all of those "I would need a full video to explain" bits turn into their own videos! I'm definitely interested to learn more about these projects!!
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  24. 8:04 squirrel 🐿 on the upper right roof.
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  25. Thanks for your great review, we will have a firmware upgrade to support buffered parking mode in near future.
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  26. Of the fatal house fires I learn of locally, almost all of them have no working smoke detectors with about half of those having none at all. In over half of the 'non-working' cases, it was battery powered and the resident apparently removed the battery. In many other cases the battery was dead. To alleviate the intentional disarming and problems with dead batteries, newer building codes require interconnected grid-powered units with battery back-up, yet you get the same problem as people now simply remove or unplug the units. It is paramount that safety devices of all kinds preclude false alarms or people will find a way to disable them. There is a flaw in the photoelectric or optical detectors: they will alert over airborne dust as quickly as they do smoke. Based on where their sensitivity level is set, that can be an almost imperceptible amount of dust. I hope these new detectors can discriminate against that. And here's a closing thought: Christmas may be a long way off, but for those you know who have defeated their detectors now you know the perfect present for them, and one which shows how deeply you care.
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  27. 12:00 Actually, the test button is just as effective as an outlet tester because the way that the best button works is by shorting a resistor between the neutral and live, simulating a real ground fault.
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  28. My childhood hero and mentor was a nuclear physicist who was involved in the development of ionization alarms. I keep kicking myself for not becoming aware of the seriousness of the issue while he was still alive. That would have been an awesomely insightful discussion.
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  29. Hey man love the content and want you to succeed! I've always wondered what went into my apartment to keep me safe from fires and often thought about how I might need to jump out the window and onto the tree someday to escape one. Well maybe that's not quite what I need to be prepared to do after watching your video. :-) Thanks again!
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  30. they just still use the old design just in other markets. Example: renault sells old european dacias with current 1 star ratings as renault in latam.
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  31. i don't even research dash cams anymore, I always just wait for your reviews
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  32. I'm pretty sure there IS government pressure, which is exactly why 100s if not 1000s of buildings are currently being re-clad.
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  33.  @Lam  Where i live you can easily get the dual version (Ionisation and photoelectric). And even the tripple version with additional Carbon Monoxide detection. Personally that is the best option.
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  34. As an engineer, This is really interesting to learn what goes behind making everyday objects perform better. Nice video!
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  35. I can imagine you driving around with 5 cameras mounted all the time.
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  36. Truly amazing the amount of time you dedicated to this is incredible. I also loved your detailed animations and even quick but still visible mathematical explanations. You also gave me some really cool japan visit ideas once I eventually can do that. I might suggest in the future though that maybe you try to collaborate with other creators to save you time on your hard work. I could see that you looked at practical engineering's video but maybe it might be a good idea for you to reach out for experts to explain topics to you instead of trying to understand it by reading (and losing those 8 hours for the math part/animation and everything). That hard work definitely paid off in the quality of this video just an idea to try to save you time but it's not necessary if you can't or prefer not to make your videos that way.
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  37. There should be an asterisk in your video around the @11:50 when you say "not only does this detect wiring faults". The truth is that it only detects MOST wiring faults. It will not detect, for example, a swapped neutral/ground. It will also not detect a high resistance neutral. Klein explicitly list the swapped neutral/ground situation in relatively fine print in their instructions for the RT210 under "Conditions NOT indicated"...among other places.
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  38. Masterfully put together, another great video, so glad you released it! Im European and we have EuroNCAP in place of IIHS and they constantly change their tests, the latest one is highly focusing on other road users like bikers or pedestrians . It relegated a ton of previously highly rated cars into low or non existant score since they lack safery festures to avoid hitting external third parties. I believe this is the only way to improve safety in our cars and thats a good thing! Keep the fascinating topics and videos coming !
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  39. I never knew about those round of corners in the socket wrench and the frequency distribution of the tire noise. Super interesting! For many everyday objects you never really stop and appreciate the design and engineering and just overal cleverness that went into it. Hope to see many more of these kind of videos!
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  40. Easily the best video on stormwater infrastructure I’ve ever seen. You really made a boring topic EXTREMELY interesting. Shoutout to all civil engineers that do amazing work that nobody takes the time to appreciate.
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  41. glad to see a new video from you!!
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  42. Awesome video Andrew, and well done on the re-branding. I've been a sub of the dash cam reviews for years but these documentaries are fascinating! Would love a video on how useful the new safety features are in cars these days. Seems like manufacturers are adding more and more - lane keep assist, adaptive speed cruise control, safe exit assist etc etc
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  43. the "vintage" tread worked well on dirt (more fitting for the time) and is still used on knobbies
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  44. Best dash cam reviewer out there.
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  45. Nevermind the camera. How about a round of applause for how often and quickly the OP responds to the comments. Well done! (No need to respond to this comment, unless you want reinforce what I've already said.)
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  46. I absolutely love your videos! Some of the best, most interesting deep dives out there on these kinds of topics. Please keep making these videos!
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  47. I'm a fire sprinkler designer who has designed systems for a dozen and a half high rises. I absolutely appreciate this video! High rises absolutely are safer than most other buildings due to the large number of extra requirements, even just for the fire sprinkler system itself. Thanks for helping educate the general public on such an important topic!! You've got a new subscriber. Also, shout out to Seneca College in Toronto for my education.
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  48. i have been using a viofo for 2 years now, has cleared me of 1 crash so far, and it is very sleek and not too noticeable.
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  49. Have both optical (photo electric) and ionizing smoke detectors, CO and natural gas detectors, co2 and ABC extinguishers installed on every floor in my house, we have an escape plan, was in a building fire when I was a teenager, was a volunteer firefighter in my 20s. Thanks for the testing
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  50. It's super hard to understand what is said when the music volume is the same as the voice level. The music is super distracting.
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