We wanna be a leader in apocalypse technology.
-Exactly. -It's so tough
That it's bulletproof to a handgun.
And why is that important to you that it be bulletproof?
'cause it's badass and super cool.
That's super cool but see, I like that answer.
-It's a good answer. -Do you want your truck
-To be bulletproof, or not? -Well, yeah, I guess
I guess I want my truck to be bulletproof, sure.
exactly.
tonight, on jay leno's garage:
When it comes to cars, there can be a lot of danger involved.
-Have a taste. -Woo-ha!
Is the reward really worth the risk?
-I believe I pooped. -This episode, we'll meet people
Who go way out of their comfort zone to break records...
if we can go 150 miles an hour,
That would be the world's fastest blind man.
-...Save lives... -This is probably
The most dangerous part of fighting a fire?
-It's one of 'em, for sure. -...And revolutionize vehicles.
it's gonna have rocket thrusters.
-Rocket thrusters? -Yes.
these heroes look danger in the face and laugh.
That's right, yeah, yeah, that's right.
They know without the risk,
There can be no reward.
hell yeah, everybody.
I'm here at tesla headquarters in hawthorne, california.
I'm just waiting for elon to show up.
He's got something to surprise me.
I don't know what it is, but this guy's always got
Something under his sleeve.
-Elon! -Hey.
as ceo of tesla, elon has transformed
The way we drive cars, bringing style,
Power, efficiency to the once uncool
Electric vehicle.
12 years ago, elon actually brought me
His very first electric roadster.
6,831 batteries.
-Is that what it is? -Yeah.
This car should be a very, very low maintenance car,
Because there are no tune-ups required, no oil changes.
-Right. -Because the fact that
You use regenerative braking, where you recapture
-The energy of motion through -right, right.
you actually wouldn't even wear out the brakes.
and, boy, has tesla come a long way since then.
Now with spacex, elon and team are actively working
On the colonization of mars.
Talk about being out of this world!
-Good to see you, my friend. -Good to see you.
well, you've outdone yourself again.
This is fantastic.
This is the new semi, correct?
-Yes, it's a tesla semi. -Right, right.
and we'll be starting a limited production
-Towards the end of this year. -All right.
and yeah, we think people are gonna be super excited
-To drive it. -And it's running right now?
-Uh, yeah, yeah. -I mean, if this was
A regular truck, we'd be talking like this!
-Yeah, yeah, exactly. -So, let me ask you
About noise!
Now, truckers are kinda like harley riders
And porsche 911 owners.
They conform to a certain type of deal.
How do you convince 'em that this is better
-Than what they have? -Uh, yeah, they should be
Way cheaper to operate.
So, if you're driving, you know, a rig across country,
The cost per mile matters a lot.
-Right. -It's fundamental.
And the cost of electricity is much lower than the cost
-Of diesel. -Well, sure, for most truckers,
The price of gas is the difference
Between making a profit and breaking even.
we think the cost per mile will be probably less than
-Half that of a diesel. -Wow, okay, okay.
yeah, so it's kind of a no-brainer
On a cost-per-mile basis, then the just in terms
Of fun to drive, it's the size of a semi,
But it's got the acceleration of a sports car.
-Right, right. -So, like let's say you're
Pulling a big load and you wanna get on the freeway,
It could be, you know, 80,000 pounds max gross
so, this this can pull 80,000 pounds?
-Oh yeah, absolutely. -Wow.
It can pull more than that, except that's the legal limit.
Well, you've got some new members of the family
Here as well I see some familiar faces.
-Yes. -My s is in here.
It's the top selling luxury car in america.
that's right, I think it still has
The fastest 0 to 60 of any car
Ever tested by motor trend.
that's why I bought it.
-Okay, then we go to this. -The model 3.
It has the highest satisfaction ratings, I think,
On consumer reports, of any car,
I don't know, maybe ever, I'm not sure,
But it's like high 90s or something.
-There's the model x. -And I don't know any kid
That doesn't go crazy and makes their parents
Buy this one because of the gull-wing doors.
We call them falcon wing doors because they
-Falcon wing doors. -Yeah, they actually actuate
On two hinges, so it can change the opening arc
According to what obstacles are around it.
and this is the y. Nobody's seen this yet, correct?
we've not yet started shipping the model y.
-Right, okay. -So the model y
Is essentially the suv version of the model 3.
If you prefer a midsize suv, you'd want the model y.
If you prefer a midsize sedan, then the model 3.
So, yeah, we got the sexy combination here.
But, making that sexy joke, it might be
-The hardest joke ever. -Explain what your sexy joke is.
actually, it's well there's the model s.
-Right. -The model 3,
Which, you know, on the internet can be taken to mean e.
-Okay. -But, it's cool it's e
-It's cool e. -Right.
-And then, the x. -X, right.
and then, the model y,
Which together spells "sexy."
-Oh, I see, okay. -Yes.
-It wasn't easy. -I won't make electric cars,
-If you don't write jokes. -I'm not saying it was
A great joke, but it was a hard one.
no, no, no, no.
-And of course, my favorite. -Yeah.
this is the one I'm waiting for.
-The new roadster. -Great looking car.
the new roadster will be a whole new platform.
-Right. -Ready to go for a little ride?
last year, chief designer franz von holzhausen
Took me for a hair-raising ride in this demo
Of the fastest accelerating streetcar I've ever been in!
we're gonna be kind of unfair, from a technology standpoint.
For example, it's gonna have an option to have
-Rocket thrusters. -Rocket thrusters?
yes, from spacex.
-All right. -Yeah.
and how does that work? See, I don't know
When you're kidding or when you're not now.
-No, in this case, I am serious. -You're gonna have
-Rocket thrusters. -Um, yes.
and what will provide the thrust?
-There's no fuel in the car. -No, we're gonna use
Ultra high pressure compressed air.
-Oh, I see, okay. -It's a cold gas thruster.
-Okay, all right. -The main thruster
Will be like behind the license plate,
So for acceleration,
It drops the license plate, and just and that
Behind the license plate is a rocket thruster.
It's like full-on james bond.
The base model will do 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds.
wow. Where is that cybertruck? Is that around here?
it's somewhere around here. Bring on the cybertruck!
Cue music!
you know, I saw it on tv, I saw it at the intro,
But nothing strikes you till you see it in person.
Back in November of 2019,
Elon made headlines, once again, when he revealed
This science-fiction-inspired machine.
Pickup truck buyers tend to be pretty conservative
In what they like it's "it needs to look like
A pickup truck," you know, that kind of thing,
And this doesn't look anything like a pickup truck.
But it immediately makes pickup trucks look old fashion.
well, I think there's a preconceived notion
Of what a pickup truck should be,
And I think that's something that we said,
"if we're gonna go bold, we need to do something
That breaks that norm."
Yeah, so, back here we have the vault.
-Okay. -Touch of a button.
-Just opens right up like magic. -Yeah, that's very cool.
-And a good size bed, yeah. -Yeah.
if you wanna mount like a missile launcher or something,
-You can do that. -Yeah, and close it then.
-And how strong is that? -You can walk on this thing.
-You can walk on it? -Yeah.
It's very strong, it's like so if you got
Some valuable cargo in the back, this will protect your cargo,
And secure it against being stolen.
So, it's, uh, pretty stout.
People of tesla!
More with elon in a little bit.
Right now, I got a flight to catch.
The los angeles county fire department introduced
Their aviation program way back in 1957
With just one helicopter.
Soon, helitack firefighters proved invaluable
During wildfires and rescue operations.
It takes not only skill,
But a great deal of bravery to even attempt
One of these risky missions.
-Hi, guys. -Hi, jay.
-Jay leno, sir. -Pat sprengel.
-Nice to meet you. -Senior pilot paul gottwig.
-Nice to meet you thank you. -Nice to meet you.
This is a pretty big unit, isn't it?
-Twin engine, right? -It's a t700-701d engine.
-Right. -1,700 horsepower
In a continuous operation, and then we can go
All the way up to 2,000 horsepower
-For a max contingency. -Per engine, or for two engines?
-Per engine, per engine. -Wow, okay.
I should get that in my car, that'd be all right, yeah.
How many missions a year do you guys fly?
so, typically we would do about 1,100 missions a year.
Obviously, you're out five, six times a day.
And what's the top speed of an aircraft like this?
193 knots is vne.
That's as fast as it can go, however,
Tank, waste, all the drag that we have on the aircraft,
We can get about 140 knots.
well, tell me about some of the missions
And some of the specialty equipment
-You have here. -You know, hoist rescue
-Is one of our primary jobs. -Oh, there you go right there.
We do that in all kinds of locations.
It never ceases to amaze me where people find themselves.
-Yeah. -The water tank, obviously,
Is one of our main missions, it's a 1,000-gallon water tank.
It has a snorkel, so we pull water out of any water source
That we're able to fit the aircraft.
Like a swimming pool, or something like that?
we have used swimming pools very often we try to get
A water source as close to the fire as possible.
are these overbuilt for firefighting?
Or is this just a standard military helicopter
That has been adapted to civilian use?
Well, that's the great thing about the uh-60 series aircraft,
Is they were built specifically for combat operations,
So they are very robust aircraft.
And it translates well to what we do,
Because we are very hard on our aircraft.
in l.A. County we cover close to 4,000 square miles,
So that's everything from offshore catalina 22 miles
Over water, all the way up to 10,000 feet.
-Okay. -So, there's a wide variety
Of missions there when you include weather.
You might get snow, you might get rain,
You might get fog and they're flying missions
-24 hours a day too. -So we're one of the few
Operators that you'll see on the fires at night.
on wildland fires, a lot of times we can get
The upper hand at night too, when the winds die down
and easier to spot, I imagine, too.
easier to spot, easier to see.
A little bit more dynamic for the pilot, for sure.
is it safe to say this is probably the most dangerous
Part of fighting a fire,
Is the helicopter and the water drop and all that?
it's one of them, for sure, definitely the most dynamic.
-We're gonna take this up now? -Yeah, let's get somebody wet.
Cool! Let's get somebody wet.
This is my seat here?
Kinda like flying economy.
okay, we have liftoff, here we go.
-Now let's clear right. -Now let's clear right.
now let's clear left.
That was good, stabilizers coming up.
it's such a strange sensation to
To go almost all the way over 180 degrees like this.
I can't imagine doing this
With flames, and smoke, and every other thing.
This is probably the most perfect day to do this,
And it's still kind of scary.
These huge doggie dishes are known as pumpkins,
And each one holds 6,000 gallons of water.
the fire department actually has water sources just like this one
Strategically placed all over l.A. County.
Wow, it's amazing how fast it picks up
1,000 gallons of water.
we're now ready to go do our water drop very cool.
-And our water is in front. -Got the drop location in sight.
It's funny to me, the the aircraft doesn't feel
Any heavier, but you know, you just took on 8,000 pounds.
But obviously, the pilot can feel it.
It's a game called "scare the comedian."
Very popular with firefighters.
drop area looks clear.
A little right to left drift.
wow, that's pretty crazy.
You can't tell on the aircraft here
When the drop happened.
we're preparing to land.
Coming in for landing, I'm gonna switch seats,
So I can hang out the side.
Apparently this was not dangerous enough.
Back in a flash!
Coming up:
-Mom! -The cars of rob riggle's life.
-Have you ever had a jag? -No.
You're not gonna have this one either.
And I hit the road with elon musk.
we're pushing the envelope.
We wanna be a leader in apocalypse technology.
all right, here we go.
-Yes, sir. -I'm in a firehawk helicopter,
Learning how the los angeles county fire department
Fights those horrific wildfires.
And now, I get to be the spotter.
Okay, coming in you're right overhead.
Snorkel coming down.
Okay, we're in.
Pumping water.
so, you're just eyes for the pilot making sure
We're staying right inside the middle of that water source.
Damn, that is pumping.
All right, coming up.
we are up.
so, you're sticking your head out the window, jay,
And when you see that water come out,
You let him know, "water away."
and there's my smartass producer david.
Can't we soak him?
you never ever wanna drop water on anybody.
You can seriously injure somebody
With the amount of weight that's coming down.
three, two, one now.
-Water's away. -Here we go.
Direct hit!
Coming back around for...
you got lucky this time, college boy.
Wow, it's a pretty amazing day. I know for you guys,
This is your job, but for me, this is a bucket list item.
This is one of the most amazing days.
Thank you so much for what you do, thank you.
Yeah! Very cool!
And now it's time for: This is your automotive life.
I'm talking with comedian and marine rob riggle.
That's right, before embarking
On his comedy career,
Rob served with the marines for 23 years,
Attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Oh, and he also played this colonel in a commercial.
When rob's not busy acting, you can find him
Hosting holey moley on abc,
Or on his new show, rob riggle: Global investigator.
Now, rob was born April 21st, 1970.
-Louisville, kentucky. -That's correct.
bob and sandy were your parents.
-That's right. -You came home from the hospital
In what kind of car?
I believe it was a 1969 chevy impala.
chevy impala, okay so tell me about
That first ride home from the hospital.
-What was the car like? -Well, if memory serves,
Jay, the shocks were had a lot of cush.
really? Wow, you yeah, good memory.
-I believe I pooped. -Yeah, this is probably
More information than I wanted to know.
We're gonna move forward now to some other cars in your life.
Let's see if this sound sounds familiar.
Can we start the car?
Okay, the fact that it was hard to start
-Yeah? -"ugh, ugh," the struggle.
The struggle is what I remember.
right, right could we have the car speak please?
come on, that's a mid-'70s chrysler,
-If I ever heard one. -That's correct.
-Yes? -Yes, yes.
This isn't the exact one you had, but it's as close
As we could get let's lift the door
And show rob your automotive life.
Back in the '70s, owning this chrysler fifth avenue
Was a sign your family was prospering.
Power windows, power seats,
Chrysler's rich corinthian leather,
Meant you were driving on easy street.
Oh, and check out those groovy fender skirts.
And we have a surprise for you as well.
-Oh yeah? -Yeah. Is this the car?
-Mom! -Rob,
This is your mom.
-Hello. -Hello.
-Good to see you. -Good to see you.
-Hi. -Now, you have not seen him
Since you left the hospital that day
In 1970.
-Yeah. -You turned out well.
-Yeah, he turned out very well. -Yeah, how did you get her
-To come out to california? -Well, it's it's it's
-It took a lot. -It's good to see you.
-Well, I -I like that you shake hands.
-We shake hands. -I like
I like that you shake hands with your mother.
-Hello, sandy. -"hey, nice to meet you "
-Well, that's a real marine. -Mother.
-Ma'am ma'am. -Ma'am yes, ma'am.
I think you should say, "ma'am."
all right, so this is a true story.
-Right. -Cut to 1975.
-I'm young. -Right, five years old.
five years old, and I'm standing in the front seat,
Which is what people did in the '70s.
right, now they'd call child services,
-And you would be arrested. -Yes, I would.
and we're driving through a milgram's parking lot
Milgram's is a grocery store and I don't know why or how,
I just know that my mom somehow pulled
-The steering wheel off -it came off?
off the column, with and I distinctly remember
Like wire still going into the hollow column,
And she pulled it off, and when it came off,
The car's still rolling, and we're in a parking lot.
And the string of curse words that flowed from her
A cornucopia of cusswords and at five years old,
Even I recognized the beauty and the tapestry
-Of what I was witnessing. -Right, sure, sure.
I had never been so shocked in my life, 'cause I
We're rolling, and she's holding the steering wheel like this,
And she screamed at the top of her lungs,
And jammed the steering wheel back onto the column,
And I don't know how I think it literally
Just fused onto it it just went "err"
From your anger alone, and it got back onto the column,
And she was able to steer and regain control of the car.
-And we drove home. -And then, you just drove home?
yeah, we never talked about it again.
-Right, it never came up. -Never, no.
-For years. -It's just that kind
-Of a family. -For years and then in therapy
-It came out, in therapy. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you have your first experience
-In a car like this? -Uh-huh.
-Oh, okay. -Really?
I'm kidding, kidding, it's just a little
-It's for tv. -It's just a joke.
-It's tv. -Uh-huh.
all right, so are we ready to move on to the next car
-In your automotive life? -Absolutely.
all right, good, let's get mom on
That trailways bus, get her back to kansas city.
-I came on a plane. -I know, you come on a plane,
Leave on a bus that's the way show business is, baby.
You wait here I'll be with mom.
-All right love you, mom! -This is
-This an age-appropriate date. -That still makes me a cougar.
coming up: Rob let's loose.
-Yee-ha! -I am curious and interested
In what I'm investigating I'm just really bad at it.
not that interested enough to do it well.
And more from elon.
it's so tough that it's bulletproof to a handgun.
and why is that important to you that it be bulletproof?
'cause it's badass.
let's take it for a drive.
Don't mind me, I'm just driving elon musk around
In tesla's new cybertruck.
Ugh, this job is the worst, isn't it?
I mean, it feels very much like any other tesla.
You've got instant acceleration.
The greenhouse is fabulous.
I love how open it appears to be.
And how close is this to what it will look like
-In production? -At tesla, we always wanna have
The production car be better than the show car.
Like it always drove me crazy when manufacturers
Would show come out with this cool-looking show car,
And then the actual production car would be way worse.
-Right, right. -And you're like, "man,
You got us all excited about this sweet-looking car,
And then the production was not it was terrible."
We won't do show cars that aren't real.
So, I think we got the proportions here
-Pretty close. -What would you change on
When it finally reaches production,
-What do you think you would do? -We're five percent too big,
And if we just take all the proportions
And drop them by about five percent
oh, that oh, you mean all the way around?
yeah, so it's gotta fit in a normal garage.
-Right. -Yeah, and there's like
There's lots of little details that people wouldn't necessarily
Pick up consciously, just improving visibility.
Having the glass like this is actually quite hard,
-Because it's so sloped. -Is that a special kind
-Of glass, is that different? -Oh, yeah.
-Than normal windshield glass? -Um, we are going to be using,
Um, effectively
A form of armored glass for the car.
And the door panels of the car
Are a 300 series stainless steel,
And it's so tough that it's bulletproof to a handgun.
and why is that important to you that it be bulletproof?
-I mean -'cause it's badass.
-Well yeah. -Super cool.
that's super cool see, I like that answer, it's a good answer.
I mean, do you want your truck to be bulletproof or not?
well, yeah, I guess I do, I guess I want my truck
-To be bulletproof, sure. -Yeah, exactly.
'cause, you know, 'cause you never know.
When the apocalypse comes,
You should be glad it's built for you.
We wanna be a leader in apocalypse technology.
exactly.
There's your spacex headquarters right there.
yeah, yeah, the boring company tunnel starts just there
Next to the spacex parking garage.
oh, is that right? How how long is that tunnel?
uh, that's about a mile and a half.
the boring company is another one of elon's innovative ideas.
He envisions a tunnel system designed specifically
For electric vehicles to help alleviate
The overflow of traffic above the ground.
I wonder, we might be able to take the cybertruck through it.
That would be kinda nuts. Do you wanna do that?
can we take the cybertruck through it?
maybe. This'll be quite interesting
To see if we can actually fit it down there.
let's try it, that's what I say.
-Yeah, life's an adventure. -Right.
buckle up, folks, it's time
To assess & caress with donald osborne.
Well, this episode is all about risk versus reward.
For example, I'm wearing my traditional blue denim.
No risk at all.
Donald is wearing pants made
From obviously plaid stamps you used to get
From buying lucky strike cigarettes
Back in the '60s.
-Possible risk. -And the reward?
I don't know what the reward is.
-There you are. -But we have three cars here
That really are about risk and reward.
-Tell us what we have. -Today, we've got
A 1981 cadillac seville elegante 864,
A 2012 fisker karma,
And a 1963 studebaker lark wagonaire.
-Where do you wanna start? -Uh, why don't we start
With the lark.
The designers had the great idea
That, you know, how can we augment
The practicality of a station wagon?
What do families do with their station wagons?
They use it for carrying people and also things.
And that's the practicality also of a pickup,
So they thought, "let's combine the two,"
Putting this sliding roof in the back
So that you had the utility of a station wagon
And the utility of a pickup truck all in one.
it still seems like a pretty good idea.
Why wasn't it more popular?
these are manual.
So you really this should have been
An automatic retracting roof,
So it's not the handiest thing for going out shopping
Or even to the local lumberyard.
a mechanical one is exactly what elon musk is doing
On the cybertruck.
There are also problems on some of them with leaks
And, of course, when you have an opening like this,
That's fairly common.
The survival rate of these cars is really low,
So to see one is really a treat.
The risk of this was fairly great.
The reward could have been great
If only things had been going better for studebaker
On a business point of view.
Let's take a look at the cadillac.
In the late '70s, there was a big push
For improving fuel economy.
Small cars and big cars.
And, of course, nobody wanted
To give up the idea of a big v8 engine
In a car like this cadillac seville,
So engineers came up with the idea
Of canceling out cylinders when you didn't need them,
At low speeds, at stoplights,
Things like that, and so that's why this car wears
These wonderful badges "8-6-4."
So when you needed all the power,
It ran on all eight cylinders;
When you needed a little less, on six;
And then, finally, on four cylinders.
well, it does make sense
Because once you're going 50 or 60 miles an hour,
You only need the four cylinders to keep it going at that speed.
it's quite similar to technology that we see today.
There were these electronic solenoids
That deactivated the valves for the cylinders,
Depending on how many you wanted to deactivate.
it was a little ahead of its time.
As I remember, the trouble was,
You know, cadillac was the standard.
And when you stepped on a cadillac, effortless power.
As it deactivated:
It just didn't sound cadillac.
there were some problems with the electronics.
The fisker karma.
This is one of the first
Of the electric-gasoline hybrid cars.
A company started by henrik fisker,
Who was a former bmw top executive.
-And aston martin. -And aston martin, yes.
I love the look of this car.
Well, that's the big selling point.
Henrik is an amazing designer.
I think it was let down by the mechanicals.
It was basically a four-cylinder engine
Hooked to a hybrid drivetrain
Which gave you maybe 22 miles electric
And then you're back to the gas.
The trouble with the fisker, it promised more
Than it delivered.
This roof is a good example.
This is a solar panel.
And I remember arguing with people at the time.
"as you go down the road,
The solar panel charges the car so you can keep going."
I go, "no, this isn't enough to drive the fan."
It takes a lot of solar power to power a battery.
All right, so, which of these three cars
Do you think has performed the best
In terms of the market in the last five years?
to me, the one that holds the greatest appeal
Is the studebaker because it's so unusual.
So you're going west with the studebaker.
-That's correct. -Excellent.
coming up, we'll find out if I've chosen the right car.
And, later...
Going into the tunnel.
We don't even know if it'll fit.
We're pushing the envelope.
a trip into the future with elon musk.
Just my luck, this is when the earthquake happens.
-What has trouser man chosen? -Trouser man speaketh.Ne.
Five years ago, you could have bought
One of these wagonaires, if you could find one,
For about $16,000.
Now it would be about $19,000.
The fisker, about five years ago,
One might have sold for about $55,000.
Today, it'd be about $41,000.
It's gone down a bit in price.
The cadillac, five years ago,
It would be about $7,500.
Today, it'd be about $10,500.
For an example like this, probably quite a bit more.
The sweepstakes winner of appreciation
Is the cadillac seville.
By what, $1,500?
it's not dollars.
It's percentage.
this all explains the plaid trousers.
And we're back with more of this is your automotive life.
All right, we just had the tearful reunion
With your mother who you hadn't seen
Since leaving the hospital in 1970.
-It was great seeing her again. -Yeah, great seeing her.
really great seeing her, thank you for that.
I'm thinking she's probably in phoenix by now.
It's about a four-day bus ride.
We're ready for our next vehicle.
Start it up.
-Oh, yeah. -All right, all right.
Could we hear the vehicle speak, please?
-I know exactly what that is. -You do?
I know exactly what that is, yeah.
-Oh, there it is! -The hummer,
But the military hummer.
That's the real one.
This high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle,
Or humvee, was developed in the 1980s
And was highly visible
In the american military operation
In the persian gulf war.
This mighty beast has a 6.5-liter v8 engine,
205 horsepower, and is still used
By our military today.
no, I could tell when it turned on
-It had that low purr. -It's not that loud
Because then the enemy would...
be able to spot you and find you a lot easier.
-The horn is very weak, too. -You joined the marine corps
In 1990, and you're still in the marine corps, aren't you?
well, I retired in 2013 after 23 years.
But I remember rolling through kosovo
On many a patrol in humvees.
And we were shot at on several occasions.
glad you came home safe, and I want to thank you
-For your service. -Absolutely.
now we have one vehicle left.
Well, I think it's kind of a dream vehicle.
You'll see what I'm talking about.
-Come on. -All right.
you know those tv shows where they find a veteran
And they give him a brand-new car?
-Yeah. Yeah? -This isn't one of those, no.
No, this isn't even close to that.
But what we're gonna do is let you take it for a ride.
okay! That's good.
Then we'll snatch the dream away.
Grab a corner, I think you'll like this.
Let's pull it back.
oh.
Oh, yeah!
yeah, jaguar f-type.
The jaguar f-type r coupe
Is their latest english sports car,
With a supercharged v8 engine that supplies
A whopping 550 horsepower to all four wheels.
And like all jaguars, it's beautifully designed.
-Nice-looking car, isn't it? -It's gorgeous!
Look at that.
I love the grille on these things.
-Look at that. -Have you ever had a jag?
-No. -Okay, well, this will
Continue the tradition.
You're not gonna have this one either,
But you get to drive it.
And that's a start.
Ha-ha!
Pulls nicely, doesn't it?
driving this is a joy.
-This is really nice. -They're nice cars.
They really are, it rides beautifully.
what's the first car you bought
When you had a few bucks in your pocket
After being in show business?
It took a long time, it really did.
It happened about eight years ago.
And I'm a family man, so I couldn't justify this.
So I bought a bmw 535i...
-Very nice. -...And I still own it today,
And I still drive it today.
I think I'm due for a for another car.
well, maybe this will be the car for you.
if I ever did go sports car, this would be the one.
there you go, there you go, could happen.
That midlife crisis should be kicking in...
-Any minute now. -...I'm saying within the hour.
-You're almost 50 now, right? -Yes.
Ooh, yeah.
talk about turning over the odometer.
-Yeah, I know. -That's the one.
add another 20 there.
You're doing just fine, though.
I'm doing all right, can't complain, can't complain.
You can put your foot on it a little bit.
Have a taste.
Yee-ha!
Now I first, I guess, really became
Aware of you on the daily show.
-How'd you get that gig? -Well, it was
Right after Saturday night live.
now you were on that for one season.
yeah, one season.
And they didn't renew my contract.
Nice way of saying they fired me.
Somehow, I got invited in to do the daily show.
I read with jon.
I felt like I screwed it up.
And they came in, and I thought they were gonna
Give me a handshake and a "thank you."
And they didn't.
They said, "hey, we really
We like you, and we would like for you to join the show
-If you're interested." -oh, that's great.
You know, I screamed something,
Probably a curse word, and...
You know, I kind of was at my wits' end.
I was broke, I had a child,
And I needed to provide for my family.
Had I not gotten the gig, no one really knows it,
But had I not gotten the gig,
I was going to go back on active duty in the marines
Because, you know, I had to provide.
Now was there any time when you were 19
You thought about doing this before you went in the marines?
yeah, I was I was always a fan of comedy my whole life.
I grew up loving it.
And I was a theater and film major in college,
And I knew there was something in me
That always wanted to do it and try it.
But I also wanted to serve and do that as well.
You know, when you graduate from university of kansas
Or the university of anywhere as a theater major,
You're gonna be a waiter for a long time.
Or I had my pilot's license,
So I got a guaranteed flight contract
With the marine corps, so I thought,
"well, maybe I'll be top gun."
"maybe I'll be top gun," that's realistic, yeah.
So what are you doing now? Are you on a show?
Are you doing a film? What are you doing?
uh, actually, I got a lot of television things happening.
That's where it is now, isn't it?
it feels like it, so I've been very lucky.
Holey moley, which is on abc,
We're shooting a second season of that.
And, then, I have a show on discovery channel
Called rob riggle: Global investigator.
oh, wow, global investigator, that sounds...
-What are you investigating? -Mysteries.
So basically, I took indiana jones
And I mixed him with the pink panther,
So I'm kind of a blundering investigator.
-That sounds funny. -It is!
I am curious and interested in what I'm investigating,
-I'm just really bad at it. -Right, right.
Not that interested enough to do it well, but interested.
Yeah, yeah. That sounds funny.
I think it's doing well, and I hope people enjoy it.
well, rob, thank you for sharing
Your automotive life with us.
I appreciate this.
A lot of fun, my friend, thank you.
-Thank you, man. -Appreciate it.
Coming up, a blind man drives a car really fast!
So this'll make you the world's fastest
Unassisted blind man in an automobile.
-That's correct. -All right.
We're here at spaceport
In truth or consequences, new mexico.
We're literally in the middle of nowhere.
I'm with a man who has an amazing story.
His name is dan parker.
Dan is 50 years old, professional race driver,
And a drag racing champion.
This is your car right here.
Tell us about what happened.
You were the 2005 world champion.
yeah, I'm the 2005 american drag racing league
Pro nitrous world champion,
And we were testing a new motor combination.
On March 31st, 2012,
On the first full pass at the eight-mile mark,
At 175 miles an hour, the car made
A hard right turn into the wall.
Went over the wall, tumbled, broke in half.
I woke two weeks later from an induced coma
To find out my brain swole,
Compressed my optic nerve and killed it.
-I'm 100% blind for life. -Wow.
I've never heard of any other racer going blind,
You know, especially from something like I went through.
I accepted the fact as a racer
I might come home beaten up or in a box.
I never imagined I'd come home blind.
oh, man, but that didn't stop you.
I had about six months of deep depression,
And one night in a dream, I had a dream that I could race again,
So I started designing and building a motorcycle.
Ten months later, in 2013, I became the first blind man
To race bonneville in '14 and return
And set the fim class record.
okay, now getting on a motorcycle
When you're blind seems, I hate to say dumber,
But dumber than getting back in a car when you're blind.
-What kind of motorcycle? -It's a three-wheel motorcycle
To take the balance out of the equation.
It has a 70cc two-stroke aprilia.
And my fim class record is 62.05 miles per hour.
okay. Then you decide to get back into the car.
This is a car you built yourself, isn't it?
yes, with a lot of help of volunteers and friends.
But at the very beginning,
I think people thought I was prank calling them
When I would call and tell them what I was trying to do.
right, okay. So what do we have here?
It looks like a 2007, 2008, 2009?
yeah, 2008 corvette.
I bought it as a flood car,
Had no motor and no interior in it,
With the sole purpose of building it
And becoming the world's fastest blind man.
building a car as a blind man, how did that work?
I have to figure out adaptive techniques.
With measuring, I still run my milling machine and lathe.
I have a talkbox hooked to my caliper
So I can machine something within a thousandth of an inch.
And so I've been hands-on in building this car,
Not just sitting on the sidelines.
and what do you want to do?
What do you want to do with this car?
What's the record you want to try to get?
mike newman in England has been 200.4 miles an hour
With human assistance.
So my goal eventually is to become
The world's fastest blind man,
But to do it with no human assistance,
Solely relying on my custom guidance system
That gives me audible feedback so I know how to stay on course.
now it's kind of windy out here today.
Do you think because of this wind
It'll keep you from hitting 200 miles an hour?
yeah, realistically, today, we don't think
We got 200 in the books, you know.
If we could go 140, 150 miles an hour, we'll be happy.
and that'll still give you a record, won't it?
yes, that'll be the world's fastest
Unassisted blind man.
all right, I see a lot of equipment you wouldn't see
In the standard corvette, obviously.
-Are you running on pump fuel? -C16, high octane.
high-octane racing gas, okay.
-14:1 compression. -Wow, okay.
And you're making about 570 horse.
All right, well, that sounds like it can do the job.
-Yeah. -It's amazing
You built the motor, you built the car.
Can I go for a ride with you first
And you show me how all the electronics work,
And then you'll try and set the record, eh?
-Let's do it. -Give it a shot.
you can drop it.
dan's car is equipped with a second set of controls
For the passenger seat, but I'll be letting him drive.
Eh, I'm sure it'll be fine.
Uh, yeah?
Tell us about the technology in the car.
Tell us how you're able to accomplish this.
a friend of mine, patrick johnson,
An engineer at boeing phantom works,
Built me this guided system
That gives me audible feedback.
So it has a gyro in it, gpses,
I've got inertia switches,
And it can do calculations or predictions
To know where I'm at ahead of myself.
I'm able to correct my steering with the audible feedback.
right. Oh, that's amazing.
And you hear audible beeps left and right,
-Is that how it works? -No, it's actually saying,
"straight, right, right, right, straight."
oh, that's saying, "straight, straight, straight."
I got it, okay.
For a minute, I thought it was the diaphragm in the fuel pump.
I'm going, "what's that noise?"
that's what I'm hearing the whole time.
straight, straight, straight,
Left, straight, straight.
do people think it's kind of crazy,
A blind man going 200 miles an hour?
it was tough getting people to accept it,
But now a lot more people are on board.
-I'm a racer. -Well, now, we're gonna try
The high-speed run on your own.
So this will make you the world's fastest
Unassisted blind man in an automobile?
-That's correct. -All right.
I'd say let's see what happens,
But that would be inappropriate.
I'm out here at the end of the track.
This is about 2.5 miles.
straight, straight, straight, left.
Straight, straight, straight, straight, left, straight.
Straight, straight, straight, straight, straight.
I can hear the car coming now.
take over, take over stopping.
straight, straight, straight.
whoa.
Patrick, how fast did I go?
Hell yeah, everybody.
how'd it feel?
What kind of speed did you hit?
-152 miles an hour. -152, very good.
Very good, so that's still a record, isn't it?
-Yes, sir. -Oh, that's great.
all right, coming out.
got it?
Jay.
-Who is this? -It's jay, remember me?
Boy, they break a record, they forget who you are.
Ten minutes ago, "oh, man..."
-Oh, this is jay leno! -Oh, hey, that's right!
Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right.
Nice job, nice job.
Well, I'm sorry we didn't hit 200,
But 152 is pretty damn good.
it felt awesome to run 152 miles an hour
With zero human assistance.
It's amazing.
You don't realize how fast you're going
Because you don't have the visual, you know,
You don't have cones going by or trees
Or whatever it is at the drag strip.
And there's so much concentration going on
That you're oblivious to just about everything else.
anyway, congratulations,
I'm glad you set a record today, my friend.
-Thank you, brother. -Good to see you.
All right, very good.
that's awesome, man, that's awesome.
very cool.
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I'm trying out tesla's new space-age pickup
Called the cybertruck.
it'd be quite interesting to see
If we can actually fit it down there.
now elon has dared me to take it through
The boring company's test tunnel
Right under los angeles.
all right, so this is the first time
Cybertruck has ever been inside a boring company tunnel.
we don't even know if it'll fit.
We're pushing the envelope.
let's see, how are we?
I think you're you're looking good on this side.
okay, here we go.
Going into the tunnel.
that's it. Going pretty good.
-Here we go. -Yeah.
wow, cool tunnel.
What is that on the side?
this is steel-reinforced concrete.
-Oh, okay. -Yeah.
You can go faster.
We're in a tunnel under l.A.
that's very cool.
You don't want to break down in here.
well, this is a test tunnel,
So there'd be parallel tunnels
For, you know, any kind of, like, production situation,
So there'd be many tunnels, and then you'd have doors
In between the tunnels, and you'd also have,
Like, alcoves and that kind of thing
Where people could exit or do whatever is needed.
wow, look how far that is.
Just my luck, this is when the earthquake happens.
Oh, actually, tunnels are safer
Than the ground in an earthquake.
Tunnels are safer than the ground?
think of earthquakes
Are like waves on the surface,
And if you let's say there's a
There's a hurricane, you'd rather be in a submarine
-Than a ship. -Well, that's true.
now, normally, this would be on autopilot,
So you wouldn't need to drive at all.
so the idea being, you drive your tesla down here,
Put it on autopilot, and it would take you
-Through the tunnel. -Yeah.
So this is the elevator.
-Oh, the elevator takes us up? -Yeah.
oh, very cool.
We get right to here.
And just stop, where, right about here?
wow, we just barely fit.
Here we go.
Hopefully we don't catch on anything on the way up.
-It's hilarious. -Yeah.
How crazy is this?
-And just go forward? -Yeah.
elon, thank you very much.
This is kind of a bucket list thing
To get a glimpse of the future,
And you're doing it, my friend.
With the boring machine, and going through the tunnel
In this car, it's very cool.
I hope the next 12 years is as good
-As the last 12 have been. -Well, thanks.