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Don’t Slow Down

Originally published by "dbarker" on 2006-10-22 15:21:00Z

Jeep drives across water: This is a really fun video from Top Gear showing a couple (normally land-bound) vehicles running across water.

The theory is that if your rotating gear has big enough lugs and you keep them spinning fast enough, you’ll essentially skip across the water. Crazy thing is, it really does work exactly like that.

Via Metafilter.