From Autoblog: Video: Mythbusters tests the square wheel theory

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Mythbuster tests square wheels

The Mythbusters have finally tackled the long-unanswered question, “Why don’t cars have square wheels?”

What’s that? You’ve never wondered why? Neither have we, because it’s freaking obvious. But equally obvious is how awesome it would be to test out a square-wheeled vehicle anyway, which is exactly what the Mythbusters guys did, using an older Ford F-Series pickup.

While the full episode is not available online, you can get the gist of the segment by watching the eight clips Discovery has posted, which we’ve conveniently organized for your viewing pleasure below.

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From The UberReview: Adam Savage Describes How Credit Card Companies Shot Down RFID Episode

Uh oh… man, I don’t wanna carry around my credit cards anymore!  At least not the ones with RFID!

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Here is something that you might not know. Mythbusters had planned to air an episode on how “hackable and trackable” RFID chips are – it never saw the light of day. What happened was this: calls were made to arrange a meeting with someone at Texas Instruments and when the meeting was scheduled to happen a bunch of legal heavies from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover explained that showing the episode would be a really, really bad idea.

So the episode never happened and Mythbusters won’t be examining any RFID-related myths anytime soon.

I’ve got to admit that I am finding myself curious. It isn’t like the Mythbusters episode was going to show people how to defraud their credit card company – so the card companies’ objections more likely stemmed from other aspects of RFID that they might be uncomfortable with customers finding out about.

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From Gizmodo: MythBusters Was Banned from Talking About RFID Chips Because Credit Card Companies Are Little Weenies

Boo!!! MythBusters stopped?! Inconceivable! Grow a pair credit card companies!!

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RFID chips are super cool because those little buggers can beam things wirelessly. The guys at Mythbusters totally thought so too and wanted to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips were. Sounds amazing! Everyone would’ve learned more about the technology that’s invisibly invading our lines. But, nope. Credit Card companies banned ’em. More »



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