The Most DANGEROUS Tech

- Hey guys, I'm Austin and today we're going to take a look at some of the

most

dangerous

tech

nologies out there. This is a Tesla Model 3 and it is a very good car. What it is not is an autonomous car. While self-driving sensors have come a long way and continue to get better and better, it's still not ready for a full self-driving experience, something a lot of people should really take note of. There are several cases where people have been in serious accidents or outright killed because their cars collided with another person or someone collided with them and they simply weren't paying attention.

Although not completely autonomous, Autopilot is legitimately impressive

tech

nology, and especially when you combine it with Autopilot navigation, which allows you to enter GPS coordinates and the car will essentially take you there. It's great, but you can't fully trust it. Autopilot is therefore not yet ready for fully autonomous driving. Especially here, on a normal street, you don't really want to use it, do you? It's really intended for highways. There are now many people who think that fully autonomous driving is already here, and that is simply not true. There are now many cars that are getting closer, but the full autonomous driving experience is still a bit far away.

That said, what Tesla has here is one of the

most

advanced systems you can buy. If you look at the screen here, you can easily see the car in front of us and the cars next to us. He's actually pretty smart about it. Good, now it's vibrating, letting me know the turn signal is on. There is a car passing in front of me and it should be clear now, is it clear? It's clear and we're changing lanes. Okay, that's very good. A little scary, but it worked. So this is actually an incomplete place. If I'm driving right now, I'm not going to try to change lanes while I'm almost stopped and there are cars flying around, but hey, I'll try to pass.

Oh man, there are cars coming pretty fast this way. I can see them though. He's not doing anything too stupid. K, I see there is one more, oh God, oh God don't do that! No no no! Okay, (laughs) yeah, it was a bad idea. And that's what happens with these systems. They are auxiliary tools. They are not completely autonomous, are they? There are many things you can do, but if you don't pay attention, you'll be straight into a world of insurance claims, and maybe even worse. When we talk about

dangerous

technology, one of the things that has been circulating lately is 5G.

This one is, shall we say, controversial. There is now no doubt that we live in a world full of radio signals, cell towers, cell phones in your pocket and perhaps smart watches on your wrist. I mean there are absolutely these things around us every day, but the thing is, there's really no real evidence to show that this is actually harmful. However, today we are on the cusp of a new 5G network, which promises vastly improved speeds. I mean, if you look at these Samsung Galaxy Note 10s with 5G, you'll see speeds that are much faster than most people's home Internet connection.

And this certainly won't be the first or last phone we see. There are many 5G networks that will truly become ubiquitous in the coming years. Now, with the advent of 5G networks, people are once again asking: is 5G secure? (intense drum beat) Yes, it's safe. It's okay, don't worry about it. All it takes is a quick Google of 5G and dangerous 5G appears quickly. But the thing is, there's really no evidence to show that 5G is any more dangerous than all the wonderful networks that came before it. (bird screech) That seagull is really annoying. I think Seagull likes 5G.

Now, there is absolute truth in the fact that there is some danger when it comes to radiation; However, radiation is absolutely everywhere around us. Now, if you look at the electromagnetic spectrum, I mean, sure, things like X-rays and iodine type radiation are certainly not something you like, but 5G is nowhere near that. And in fact, even in visible lights in the spectrum, and I must say, I'm a big fan of visible light; I can't see anything without it. But there is simply no reason to fear 5G. It uses frequencies very similar to those of current W-Fi and cell towers.

Really, the most dangerous part of your smartphone is dying while taking a selfie, or a neck strain, or a general lack of self-respect after spending all day on Twitter. But I think it's probably more of a personal thing. (beep) Dude, is this a Note 7? - Yes, what are you doing? No, no friend. - No, okay - This is literally going to explode. - No, friend, friend, it's okay. It's the fan edition. It's the fan edition. - Oh. - Someone from South Korea. - Oh. Now Samsung is in the news right now for the slight problems that the Galaxy Fold has had.

But beyond something like a foldable phone, the real PR disaster was the Galaxy Note 7. I still find it uncomfortable to hold. But seriously, this was a huge PR disaster, right? I mean, you're talking about a huge flagship phone whose battery was literally on fire. And as you'll see in a lot of these other types of dangerous technological things that we're talking about, batteries, they're dangerous. Sometimes they catch fire, right? I mean even simple batteries. I don't know if you remember the Boeing 787. When it first came out with the Dreamliner, there were issues where the lithium-ion batteries on board would randomly catch fire.

You know, it's not a big deal when you're at 40,000 feet and very little oxygen and planes, air disasters. Even Apple had problems. With older MacBook Pros being recalled due to battery issues, some airlines are outright banning MacBook Pros right now. In September 2016, Samsung began officially retiring its Note 7. They were now very clear on how to get this phone out of people's hands. Not only were they offering a trade-in for another Samsung phone or getting free credit for another device on carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile, but when people weren't already doing that, they were trying to break these things.

So at one point a software update was shipped that would limit the battery charge to just 20 to 30 percent. They were literally excluded from the network. I mean, people treated this like a legit bomb. (Bomb explodes) Now Samsung was finally able to solve the problem by putting a much, much smaller battery inside the Note and re-releasing it as the fan edition, but the damage was already done at that point. Although if you're curious what the fan edition was and a little more about the Note 7, we did a whole video on this a couple of years ago when it first came out.

Oh, should I get the fire extinguisher? Just in case? - Maybe we need it. Another dangerous technology is USB Killer. Now don't let appearances fool you. Sure, on the surface this looks like a normal small USB drive, but it serves a much more nefarious purpose than that. It will legitimately kill your laptop. Basically, this uses a series of capacitors, so when you insert it into a device, it starts charging those capacitors, and then it turns around and discharges all that power directly into the USB port at about 240 volts, which for a long time systems It's enough to kill them.

So it depends on what you connect it to, and some manufacturers have realized this and built in protections to prevent that energy from spreading and killing everything it touches, but on many devices at least it will. it kills the USB port it is on, or may even kill the entire system. In fact, a college student recently got in trouble for using this on over 60 computers on his college campus, totaling over $50,000 in damage, and currently, because he committed so much vandalism with this thing, he may go to prison. for up to fifteen years. Now, it's obviously not illegal to use a USB Killer on your own device, but this is like killing something, right?

I mean, using a USB cable and plugging it in is no different than turning a baseball bat into a laptop or something. It can kill you as easily as, I don't know, a fire extinguisher, a hammer, or water. This is a laptop we recently had at Mystery Tech, and Ken partially killed it with water, so let's see if the USB Killer still has it. Normally I would feel really bad about this because we know how powerful it is, but this laptop is essentially half dead anyway. So are you ready? - Yes. - A firewall is used to access... (click) - It's instant, man!

Oh, oh, oh, okay, maybe he's not dead, but he's not okay. Let's move on, before Dangerous Tech turns into how, oh man, it's really hot at the bottom too. Let's return this and continue Mystery Tech with Dangerous Tech, whatever it's called. Set yourself in 2015. Vine still exists, everyone is playing The Witcher 3, and the Hoverboard is new. Oh. So you can imagine that after a fun day riding your shiny new Hoverboard, you plug it in and discover that the battery starts to smell a little funny. Smoke starts to fill the room and you realize your awesome new toy is on fire!

So when they started coming out, there was a flood of different clones on the market. And some of them were completely safe and fun, but many others used very sketchy batteries that could legitimately burn. All it takes with lithium ion batteries is that the chemistry isn't right, maybe they were too hot, maybe they weren't sealed the right way, whatever the case may be, they can and will catch fire. , especially when you consider that if you look at a Hoverboard, this is obviously a newer and much safer model, it's a big device and it has a huge battery inside.

With that kind of power, it is absolutely flammable if quality control is not done correctly. There were some horrible incidents where people would literally ride them and they would just catch on fire. Like it literally caught fire while you were riding it. You look down, your feet are on fire, your Hoverboard is on fire, your life is on fire and you don't even have a USB to make you feel better about your life.