Hitting the Buffers

Gareth Mitchell looks at our need for speed in different areas of modern life and asks what is stopping us from getting faster

Hitting the Buffers - The Human Body

Gareth is put through his paces at the Human Performance Laboratory at Bath University to find out whether his body is built for speed. Will human records stop being broken?

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Hitting the Buffers - Transport

Gareth travels to El Mirage dry lake bed in the Californian desert, where 'hot rodding' was born, and looks at the early-20th century movement that expressed a love of speed.

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