Hot Wheels Tesla Cybertruck RC Speed Test [Can it really do 500 MPH scale speed?]
Hot Wheels claims the 1/64 scale RC of the Tesla Cybetruck can “reach up to 500 scale miles per hour.” It’s written on the product info on the original preorder website and also on Target’s product info. Knowing what some typical speeds are with our Hot Wheels ID portal, that seemed like a lofty boast. We put it to the test, but we did not get the results we expected.
500 miles per hour scale speed. let’s put it to the test in today’s video. to get a baseline of what a good speed normally is let’s use our hot wheels id portal and a few of straight track and a u-turn at the end. us. because they’re not radio-controlled, pretty close to the start, where they have 254. motosaurus,
246. gt hunter, 251. jurassic park jeep, 218. twin mill, average after 10 successful runs of 239 miles per hour. things are not looking good for the cybertruck. could it really be twice as fast as a traditional booster? let’s work out a method to measure its speed. we know a 1/64 scale one quarter mile is about 20 feet 8 inches
Long. that distance, we can catch the entire thing the number of video frames from our start, here where the cars enter the orange track, to our finish where the cybertruck hits the oil hazard from the total turbo takeover and it launches in the air. we’ll reset that every time, but it will be the best
Visual and audio queue of exactly when the cybertruck reached the finish line. okay. it took exactly two seconds (or sixty video frames )to go the scale quarter mile. let’s use this online scale speed calculator i found. genuinely shocked! that’s already more than twice as fast as some of the id cars right after
Coming out of the booster. it didn’t feel like it this time it only took 59 frames, which works out to be 457 miles per hour scale speed! at this point, i’m worried our calculation is off. now we didn’t plan on needing to measure the id cars going the scale quarter mile for comparison. i thought the id app speed would
Be accurate enough. now let’s take a look at a shot of an id car. we know that these track pieces are two feet long, it took for this car to go four sections (or eight feet) and still do a rough calculation. it took 23 frames (or about three-quarters of a second) to go 8 feet (or 96 inches). now it should be
Decelerating slightly, unlike the rc, but it will give us some kind of a check. and we get 455 miles per hour! wait! and this was the id car. so they were going about the same speed? so does that mean the id portal is way off? at this point, i had to stop the experiment and do some online research and contacted a friend
With a background in physics. what i learned is that multiplying the real speed times the scale (64 in this case) is a rudimentary way of calculating scale speed. it’s not very useful. there are more complicated ways to determine scale speed, depending on the application. like, if you were testing a model in
A wind tunnel, for example. all kinds of factors need to be considered, than just the size and distance. and it gets way over my head. so let’s resolve to say that the id way, so we can’t use that as a comparison. but because we’re getting speeds close to 500 miles per hour, that’s probably the technique hot
Wheels used when they made their claim. so let’s continue the test with the cybertruck in boost or “sport” mode and see if we can break whew! now that does seem faster. let’s check the tape. the cybertruck made it to 20 feet eight inches in exactly 45 frames (that’s a second and a half). 600 miles per hour! let’s
Run it one more time for good measure. this time pressing the forward joystick and the turbo button just to be sure looks like we shaved off a frame on the time. so pretty consistent really. it’s give or take a frame anyway, but that comes out to 614 miles per hour scale speed. now i’m no physicist, so let me know
In the comments if you can explain why the id portal speeds were calculated slower or what you think the scale speed should actually be if the cybertruck went a scale quarter mile in a second and a half. thanks for watching com and collected. we’ll see you in the next video.
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