The car stopping challenge winners

Yea it was a bullsh*t solution.

Original? Give me a break, either you use a wall or a net, the ways of slowing things down isn't rocket science anymore, you have just a few options.

The net was elegant, the pop up drag wall was overly complicated and just a bad design, the heft of having to deploy that thing anywhere alone would make it a deal breaker, the judges were rigging it for the obvious reason, they needed a woman in the final.

I thought Amy's team would loose. I think building a wall to stop cars isn't the best idea. Isn't it that gap that the wall forms when it deploys that stops the car, seems cars and trucks of different sizes would react differently. The biggest draw back in the net deign is durability. How would the net itself hold up with vehicles driving over it day in and day out before it was deployed. It would be no good if the net itself got shredded.

I thought the net was much better, it just seemed like a smoother and safer stop than hitting a wall. Y'all are right, it kinda seems this show is rigged just to cause the most drama, lol.

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I think redeployment should have been a criteria. Tom's net could be reset in a matter of minutes by one person. Amy's "innovative and original" wall weighed more than 400 lbs. and broke into pieces that would take several strongmen to reassemble.

Tom's big mistake was not stepping up his designs earlier to be team leader more often. Amy had led more teams and I think that was considered.

I totally agree. The blue team's design was everything Tom said it was (complicated, and tried to engineer it to be cutesy), and if the judges were considering "innovative" as a crucial point, then they shouldn't have chosen Tom's design in the first place as the runner-up blueprint, and shouldn't have used the "lack-of-originality" thing against him.

Re-deployment, reliability, cost, and the amount of damage caused to the vehicle and the passengers is way more important than being "original, and outside the box".

In a real-life scenario I'm sure than most would choose Tom's design by a mile. Besides, any repairs to the system would be way faster and cheaper whereas the other one would be a nightmare and it wouldn't be an automatic mechanism at all to re-deploy it.

Like other posters pointed out: why didn't they show the differences in the results? Why didn't they congratulate Tom on being a really good leader and handling Dan to give his best unlike any other team-leader who pretty much gave up? Was their decision based only to have a woman in the final? Did they think Amy and Corey had to be in the final challenge because they were "more deserving" than Tom (she's been 4 times team-leader and Corey's been on the winning team all the time)? The car-against-the-wall isn't all that innovative, they just did a complicated device to show-off

I didn't like Amy's attitude and criticism on Tom's design, and loved his rebuttal. Ingenuity only goes so far and realizing when to go simple instead of complicated and expensive only to look smart is silly (wasn't that what they criticized about Andrew's design last week? that he should have kept things simple with a linear system? I liked Andrew's idea more, at least on paper and thought that the pancake thing was too simple and not really original IMHO).

I am really disappointed because Eric and Tom were robbed in this one. If it was a tie according to the judges, why not eliminate one contestant from each team?

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