Hot Wheels was one of those all-time classic toys. The original cars were tiny versions of real models like the Chevy Camaro, and you could build tracks to make them do crazy stunts, all driven by gravity. But were those stunts really impossible? It turns out some are indeed possible but maybe not recommended.
Check this out: A human gets in an oversize toy car to go down a track. At the bottom there is a vertical loop to do a full 360. If you were building this in real life (please don’t!), you wouldn’t do it by trial and error the way we used to assemble those orange track
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