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There’s the rat race, and then there are these lab rats who learned to drive tiny cars. WIRED’s Matt Simon talked with neuroscientist Kelly Lambert about what her driving rodent experiment can teach us about neuroplasticity and learning new skills. Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and…

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There’s the rat race, and then there are these lab rats who learned to drive tiny cars. WIRED’s Matt Simon talked with neuroscientist Kelly Lambert about what her driving rodent experiment can teach us about neuroplasticity and learning new skills.

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62 Comments

  1. قرد

    November 2, 2019 at 1:52 am

    Everybody gangster till the rat start drivin.

  2. French- It-Up

    November 2, 2019 at 2:34 am

    Researcher reminds me of Leonard’s mom Beverly.

  3. Manas Yadav

    November 2, 2019 at 3:14 am

    No one :
    Literally no one :
    Kelly Lambert : I want rats to drive cars.

  4. Alex Vargas

    November 2, 2019 at 3:48 am

    Men now aren’t the only ones who are better driver’s than women.
    What a time to be alive.

  5. Zlatan

    November 2, 2019 at 5:12 am

    I would watch rats race.

  6. Marksman24444

    November 2, 2019 at 6:01 am

    Ah that rat looks like my little girl Tyrese who passed away a couple years ago.

  7. E. Regular

    November 2, 2019 at 6:28 am

    “What are we going to do today, Brain?”
    “The same thing we do every day, Pinky…”

    • knite_EL

      November 2, 2019 at 11:27 am

      “…TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!”

  8. danielle smith

    November 2, 2019 at 7:38 am

    Please please please do a mortician explains movie mortuary science . I’m a funeral director and for the short time I’ve done this I’m amazed at all the things they get wrong in movies now

  9. Cooking My Way

    November 2, 2019 at 10:29 am

    *This time when the Neuroscientist is also funny and entertaining and the interviewer is boring AF!*

  10. 0__0

    November 2, 2019 at 11:08 am

    i can’t find her paper on this subject (kelly lambert’s) any help will be very much appreciated…

  11. Jim Lee

    November 2, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    Next Best Uber Driver Of Year ——— Rat

  12. Senseless Inductor

    November 2, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    Well, this is a wonderful expansion to the findings of rat park. Now why does it just seem like common sense to some, and for others a revelation?

  13. STUCK IN A CAKE

    November 2, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    I don’t get why it’s so hard to understand, The Skaven Underempire just really like their doomwheels

  14. TriColoredTiger

    November 2, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    “What we found is that humanity is far, far worse then rats.”
    Garbage study and video.

  15. Connor Amlee

    November 2, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    Skill is stored in the rat

  16. saallison

    November 2, 2019 at 5:34 pm

    R.O.V. + R.O.U.S. = Armaggedon

  17. WiLL

    November 3, 2019 at 1:54 am

    WTF i never got Fruit Loops in school.

  18. Englandsbestlover

    November 3, 2019 at 3:40 am

    Tesla are investing in rat driving cars

  19. #WTFFD top 10 dinner ideas #WTFFD

    November 3, 2019 at 12:45 pm

    #WTFFD

  20. Yee ItsTanGo

    November 3, 2019 at 6:26 pm

    Disney land for rats or ghetto park 😬 also they have tiny hands and are overall tiny so I will not be wat hing this video in its entirety because I have answered the initial question. Thank you good day sir.

  21. Mycel

    November 3, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    ok, now build a race track and make them go fast! 😀

  22. kodaspaws

    November 3, 2019 at 11:03 pm

    Rats drive tiny cars because they don’t care about the environment. They should use transit.

  23. Rami Kattan

    November 4, 2019 at 3:33 am

    Elon Musk, your trick has been discovered, admit it… Teslas are just cars with rats inside the hood…

  24. Rundhille23 Pool

    November 4, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    Animated movies: write that down.

  25. Nyneva Kyte

    November 4, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    So yeah this is really cute and everything, but jesus how many times do they need to repeat this experiment before they absorb the concept that ALL animals thrive better in better conditions? This is at least the third version of this test that I’ve heard of, and I can barely understand why the first one was necessary. Is it because humans don’t like to remember they’re also animals?

  26. XTheNicksterX

    November 5, 2019 at 3:40 am

    I’d just put like 100 of them in the same room and let them crash into each other

  27. sharksa510

    November 5, 2019 at 5:34 am

    Fruit loops next ad LOOK SMART RATS EAT OUR FOOD

  28. FootballLab

    November 5, 2019 at 4:15 pm

    Imagine one of these rats cutting you of on a highway in the future

  29. BenLikezGoosebumps

    November 5, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    Imagine tiny roads for rats.

  30. Winengku Sasmito

    November 6, 2019 at 2:00 am

    2020 We will have UBER RAT

  31. Wer Nau

    November 7, 2019 at 11:42 am

    Prequel to the Planet of the Rats!

  32. Saksham Singh

    November 7, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    Next level:; rat as moving bomb

  33. Juan Manuel Penaloza

    November 7, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    I’ve heard of Rat Rods but this is ridiculous.

  34. g4m3r

    November 8, 2019 at 5:33 am

    rat driver driving an uber thats what i want the test to go on next 🤞😬

  35. IronCascade

    November 8, 2019 at 6:41 am

    The next step is teaching driver rats to fly little tiny quadcopters.

  36. Andrew Julianto

    November 8, 2019 at 8:27 am

    1980’s people: we may have flying cars in the future

    2019 scientist: we succesfully make rat drive a car

  37. Peter Nguyen

    November 10, 2019 at 12:43 am

    New York taxi drivers…. they come for your job.

  38. огромная эрекция

    November 10, 2019 at 2:52 am

    That’s nothing, in America, rats run country.

  39. trytrustinmejc

    November 10, 2019 at 3:37 am

    Gives new meaning to rat race now

  40. mando vitsl

    November 10, 2019 at 4:05 am

    Got New York shook

  41. Nicolas Cabrales

    November 10, 2019 at 4:21 am

    I expect uber will be employing rats in the next 3 or 4 years. They are teaching the rats to video login they driving nights and complaining about how hard is their job

  42. Emilio Carver

    November 10, 2019 at 6:16 am

    Just imagine the future, rats driving around in small cars and hoverboards. Can’t wait

  43. Emilio Carver

    November 10, 2019 at 6:21 am

    GTA 6 have rats driving cars around

  44. Emilio Carver

    November 10, 2019 at 6:24 am

    There won’t be a robot take over there will be a rat takeover I swear y’all have to watch your backs

  45. Ash j

    November 10, 2019 at 11:58 am

    Thay are really smart. I had some a pets…so cute 🙂

  46. frank x

    November 10, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    I finally know why those aliens had me driving aound in a little flying saucer for weeks!

  47. William Weinberg

    November 10, 2019 at 5:44 pm

    first skynet…. now i have to worry about rats…. rats 🙁

  48. TJ G

    November 10, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    At first I thought the driving rats was the most impressive part of the study but what is really special is the environment the rats were brought up in that made the difference on their ability to drive

  49. waflmlk

    November 10, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    How didn’t the scientists build tiny doomwheels for the rats to drive around yet?

  50. Charles Uwakwe

    November 10, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    That moment when your uber pulls up, and a rat is you driver.

  51. fleiteh

    November 10, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    I feel like 80% of people have the same amount of skill behind the wheel as those rats do. Should study their brains instead.

  52. GREATEST

    November 10, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    Why cant everyone on the road drive like rats?

  53. Chris Candelaria

    November 10, 2019 at 11:59 pm

    Journalist: “So whats next for these cute, smart, driving rats? Rat race cars?”
    Scientist: “We’re going to cut their skulls open to look at their brains for neuroplasticity.”

  54. Renato Antelo

    November 11, 2019 at 12:13 am

    Amazing

  55. urmaker

    November 11, 2019 at 12:46 am

    When a rat drives better than most the people in your city….

  56. Reth Tard

    November 11, 2019 at 12:47 am

    The real question is:
    Are the male rats better at driving than female rats?

    Maybe it is too obvious to ask the question? lol

  57. AnteConfig

    November 11, 2019 at 2:01 am

    They should have 2 bars. One for driving forward and the other for driving backward. And if the want to turn then they would have to place their hand somewhere on that bar and maybe controlling speed should be about how much they bend the bar.

    Maybe all the steering and the gas should be controlled by a smartphone. So the rats would have to look at the screen decipher the symbols and touch the screen in order to drive the car.

  58. freewilliam93

    November 11, 2019 at 3:43 am

    One day the wrong fruit loops will be given to the rats and boom secret of nim meets mad max.

  59. noooddle

    November 11, 2019 at 4:41 am

    I never thought I would search YouTube for Rat Road Rage, until I saw this video.

  60. Schrodinger's Cat

    November 11, 2019 at 5:50 am

    explain to me why I’ve never heard that rats are driving tiny cars

  61. Schrodinger's Cat

    November 11, 2019 at 5:58 am

    today frootloops. tomorrow crack cocaine.
    rats smuggling drugs across the border!
    NEXT ON SICK SAD WORLD

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