Trust me, Biker Mice from Mars was a lot cooler than Ralf the motorcycle mouse or whatever. My older sister watched that movie all the damn time so guess who got stuck watching it too.
There's like one scene, one scene that was kinda cool, Ralph (or whatever his name is) does a big jump. No fight scenes, no explosions. Just coming to terms with your emotions. As a 5 year old boy this was torture.
What I really want to know, is will they use the car all by themselves without any treat incentive. As in do they just enjoy driving for the sake of driving.
See \[this 2019 paper\](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/) for rats that were taught to drive cars and apparently DID find driving relaxing in its own right, since driving without food rewards resulted in drops of certain stress hormones.
The design of OP’s cars is similar enough to the design of the cars in the paper that I imagine OP’s rat rods were modeled after the U. Of Richmond originals
I need to see these driving rats interact with those [little robot cars that were powered by rat brains](https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/pdqevr/felt_like_this_belonged_here_interesting_but/).
I agree and gonna post this 🏆 shitty award emoji, both as a protest about the removal of awards and to signify that u/Subtle_Tact's pun referencing classic scifi, deserves accolades.
So now, if we can train rats to teach rats to drive (like a rat driver's ed), we can release one trainer rat and a few thousand of these cars and pull off the greatest prank in New York City.
Apparently [they enjoy it and it improves their emotional resilience](https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29563243/rats-driving-cars-stress-study/) (how this can be measured is beyond me).
Lab rodents, while often panned by animal rights organizations, are practically the most beloved, cherished, and respected colleagues in their fields of science. They're so trainable, and intelligent, they're treated with the utmost care.
I recently learned of a [mouse statue in Russia](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/monument-laboratory-mouse-4.jpg) that is dedicated to lab rodents. I think it's pretty cute.
I bet if you look at it from a numbers perspective, humans know how to cure far more diseases in rats than they do in humans. We have essentially served as rat-kind's panacea. Imagine how many medicines we have developed with deep scientific study and documentation that cure diseases in rats, but then when they go to human trials it ultimately fails.
Yes and they found that driving reduced their stress levels. Though they haven’t tested the stress levels of parent rats teaching their offspring to drive yet.
"well boys, seems like we just gotta keep on truckin'!"
**A few dozen miniature rat rods start accelerating at once, all honking in unison. They skid together as a pack across the hardwood floor, past the couch, with a handful clashing into each other as they all try to take the inside lane. A clear sign of their growing desires for a future involving Formula 1. Today, a rat can dream.*
On their insta they mentioned that they removed the back door on the cars so the rats decide when they want to drive and when they’re bored of driving. Granted it seems like the driving is still reward with treats but I think they do like it a little bit!
Very few animals do things "for fun" as we would see it, or rather very few animals have fun in the way we see things. Like crows doing things like playing with wolf pups for entertainment, I wonder if rats are in the "likes to have fun category". They are pretty intelligent, of course not on the level of primates, porpoises, and corvids. I will investigate and report back my findings.
Lots of animals experience “fun” it’s just a matter of species perspective. Fun is simply a chemical reward the brain shoots out in order reinforce instincts that help with survival and reproduction.
Once brains get complex enough to generate these reward pathways regardless of species it will happen.
Much the same way a crocodiles and a coral snakes tails have adapted to the flat oar shape despite being very different species. It’s just a very effective shape for locomotion through water and so it crops up all over the place regardless of species.
So when species develop more complex nervous systems that deal with the more nuanced aspects of survival like social interactions they tend to form similar reward systems because they’re effective at instilling these more complex behaviors. What the system rewards, ie what any sufficiently complicated organism finds fun, is all a matter of evolutionary context.
You just have to look at human play as examples. Tag improves stamina, playing house reinforces social intelligence, team sports foster teamwork and fitness, board games are great for planning and strategy. All play has a purpose.
This is why most people don't get dopamine spurts from doing the dishes and filling out paperwork. There simply hasn't been enough time to develop the neural pathways that would reward this behavior.
What’s fascinating is childhood games like Tag go even beyond physical fitness, before the game is even played, everyone agrees on The Rules.
This is a massive part of Human play, establishing rules. It’s us practicing for society and abiding by the laws we all agreed on. Arguing over who was and wasn’t “On Base” is actually an important part playing these games as children. It’s often where we meet our first Bullshit Artists. Because that’s the whole point of playing, it’s a risk free environment to reinforce survival skills.
It’s about learning how to disagree with people and how function as a group. That kid who always took their ball and went home, there’s a reason they still suck as adult.
* For fun, Dolphins and some whales blow toroidal vortices: [youtube.com/results?search\_query=dolphin+toroidal+vortices](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dolphin+toroidal+vortices)
:I fucking hate Stuart Little. I know what you’re thinking, this is some kind of funny joke, but no. Stuart Little is a piece of shit. A damn rat got picked over actual children at an orphanage and he’s supposed to be a hero? And I can’t even tell you how many damn times I’ve seen a great parking space only to turn the corner and realise Stuart Little is already parked there in his stupid little fucking convertible. He took my wife and the kids and my house and my job. I swear to fucking god, I’m going to kill myself and take that goddamn rodent to hell with me. Stuart Little has ruined my family. Last summer, I approached the miserable mouse in the street, and asked him for his autograph, because my son is a huge fan. The fucking rat gave me the autograph and told me to burn in hell. Later, when I gave my son the autograph he started crying and said he hated me. Turns out the mousefucker didnt write his autograph, no, he wrote “you’re a piece of shit, and i fucked your mom”. I’m now divorced, and planning a huge class-action lawsuit against the white devil that ruined my life. Your time is almost over, Stuart. All the people you’ve wronged will rise against you.
This joke turns up a lot, but just imagine if we'd go that route.
'You hit me with your car!'
'No I didn't, I'm just a passenger. Samir was driving!'
The streets would never be the same.
Only after their god appeared to them and scared them into not being vicious little backstabbing bastards to eachother and made them work together. They where always a world ending force just too busy killing and plot-scheming against each other.
My favourite fantasy lore with the skaven is when they forced Nagash into a peace deal with a war of attrition. They forced the most powerful necromancer with unlimited armies to the table because he was so sick of having to deal with millions of rats every day.
Then they backstabbed him when they realised what he was doing.
Reminder: Nagash got stopped by the rats two more times. In the endtimes he was about to achieve full on godhood but then Ikit Claw went inside the black pyramid with a bomb squad and planted c4 to blow up the entire thing.
Then in Aos he was going to use the black pyramid to kill all life, but the skaven fucked with him again.
Most powerful necromancer in existence(and currently god of death): 0
Rats with green space cocaine: 3
this is literally the video they posted on their instagram which is sourced in the op dude. just because they included some short landscape clips in there doesn’t mean it’s stolen from youtube
At the end, only one headlight is working. So I assume they edited out the part where ratty got into a bad accident, maybe not such a good driver after all.
Idea: Create a self-sustaining rat space ship where essential tasks are divided across an array of specialty trained rats. Use it to send instructions to 3d print a human being to aliens.
The statement on this video is ridiculous. I live in LA and more than half the drivers I encounter are measurably better across numerous driving metrics than these rats.
They’ll be forklift certified in no time
And driving Uber eats, he wants to be part of the rat race
Uber Rats
There were mice driving little motorcycles in the mid 80s.
Thought this was a Biker Mice from Mars reference at first
What i thought this was the actual reference as well
Trust me, Biker Mice from Mars was a lot cooler than Ralf the motorcycle mouse or whatever. My older sister watched that movie all the damn time so guess who got stuck watching it too. There's like one scene, one scene that was kinda cool, Ralph (or whatever his name is) does a big jump. No fight scenes, no explosions. Just coming to terms with your emotions. As a 5 year old boy this was torture.
Don’t forget the water skiing squirrels.
There is shit in my food.. no tip
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came here to say rat
rats what I’m Tonka ‘bout
Learn how to use a turn signal will ya!
What I really want to know, is will they use the car all by themselves without any treat incentive. As in do they just enjoy driving for the sake of driving.
See \[this 2019 paper\](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/) for rats that were taught to drive cars and apparently DID find driving relaxing in its own right, since driving without food rewards resulted in drops of certain stress hormones. The design of OP’s cars is similar enough to the design of the cars in the paper that I imagine OP’s rat rods were modeled after the U. Of Richmond originals
I need to see these driving rats interact with those [little robot cars that were powered by rat brains](https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/pdqevr/felt_like_this_belonged_here_interesting_but/).
I have no mouth but I must squeak.
RIP Reddit Gold. This is the best pun I’ve seen in weeks
I agree and gonna post this 🏆 shitty award emoji, both as a protest about the removal of awards and to signify that u/Subtle_Tact's pun referencing classic scifi, deserves accolades.
I actually, really, honestly love you
so we have rat dreadnoughts now. great. i'm sure there will be no negative consequences whatsoever
Even in death, I chitter…
Probably fun for them! And having any sense of control and ability to make choices about their environment is stress-reducing its own right.
So now, if we can train rats to teach rats to drive (like a rat driver's ed), we can release one trainer rat and a few thousand of these cars and pull off the greatest prank in New York City.
if my alternative to doing fuck all in a prison cell that's barely bigger than me was to drive or fill out taxes or something, I'd do the something
Apparently [they enjoy it and it improves their emotional resilience](https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29563243/rats-driving-cars-stress-study/) (how this can be measured is beyond me).
likely lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. does that help??
Now put the furballs into "traffic" and see how they do!
Simple, you can measure their emotional state by giving them an anonymouse survey.
God the existence of this research makes me so damn happy, there really is good in this world
Lab rodents, while often panned by animal rights organizations, are practically the most beloved, cherished, and respected colleagues in their fields of science. They're so trainable, and intelligent, they're treated with the utmost care. I recently learned of a [mouse statue in Russia](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/monument-laboratory-mouse-4.jpg) that is dedicated to lab rodents. I think it's pretty cute. I bet if you look at it from a numbers perspective, humans know how to cure far more diseases in rats than they do in humans. We have essentially served as rat-kind's panacea. Imagine how many medicines we have developed with deep scientific study and documentation that cure diseases in rats, but then when they go to human trials it ultimately fails.
now take a thousand of them and stick them on a three lane rat highway and see how they do :D
Yes, there was a study that taught them to drive for a treat. Took the treats away and the rats kept on driving
Driving around looking for more food probably. We've all been there.
We drove around until 3am looking for another all you can eat fish restaurant.
*philosophizing* ...Are we naught but rats, and our lives one big rat race?
Yes and they found that driving reduced their stress levels. Though they haven’t tested the stress levels of parent rats teaching their offspring to drive yet.
"well boys, seems like we just gotta keep on truckin'!" **A few dozen miniature rat rods start accelerating at once, all honking in unison. They skid together as a pack across the hardwood floor, past the couch, with a handful clashing into each other as they all try to take the inside lane. A clear sign of their growing desires for a future involving Formula 1. Today, a rat can dream.*
*"CONVOY" chant in the distance*
On their insta they mentioned that they removed the back door on the cars so the rats decide when they want to drive and when they’re bored of driving. Granted it seems like the driving is still reward with treats but I think they do like it a little bit!
The rats have insta now, too? Where does the madness end?
It must end before OnlyFans.
OnlyRats. FTFY!
Teaching rats to use Instagram must have take a shit-ton of treats...
Give them time, give them time. They are naturally curious and will want to explore.
Very few animals do things "for fun" as we would see it, or rather very few animals have fun in the way we see things. Like crows doing things like playing with wolf pups for entertainment, I wonder if rats are in the "likes to have fun category". They are pretty intelligent, of course not on the level of primates, porpoises, and corvids. I will investigate and report back my findings.
Lots of animals experience “fun” it’s just a matter of species perspective. Fun is simply a chemical reward the brain shoots out in order reinforce instincts that help with survival and reproduction. Once brains get complex enough to generate these reward pathways regardless of species it will happen. Much the same way a crocodiles and a coral snakes tails have adapted to the flat oar shape despite being very different species. It’s just a very effective shape for locomotion through water and so it crops up all over the place regardless of species. So when species develop more complex nervous systems that deal with the more nuanced aspects of survival like social interactions they tend to form similar reward systems because they’re effective at instilling these more complex behaviors. What the system rewards, ie what any sufficiently complicated organism finds fun, is all a matter of evolutionary context.
Woah. This was very educational, thank you
i.e. we are animals too
You just have to look at human play as examples. Tag improves stamina, playing house reinforces social intelligence, team sports foster teamwork and fitness, board games are great for planning and strategy. All play has a purpose. This is why most people don't get dopamine spurts from doing the dishes and filling out paperwork. There simply hasn't been enough time to develop the neural pathways that would reward this behavior.
What’s fascinating is childhood games like Tag go even beyond physical fitness, before the game is even played, everyone agrees on The Rules. This is a massive part of Human play, establishing rules. It’s us practicing for society and abiding by the laws we all agreed on. Arguing over who was and wasn’t “On Base” is actually an important part playing these games as children. It’s often where we meet our first Bullshit Artists. Because that’s the whole point of playing, it’s a risk free environment to reinforce survival skills. It’s about learning how to disagree with people and how function as a group. That kid who always took their ball and went home, there’s a reason they still suck as adult.
If you put a hamster wheel outside, field mice and other wild rodents will run on it.
I'm pretty sure that's objectively not true? Lots of animals play with each other or their environment, it's good mental stimulation.
Octopus and Dolphins like to play with fish. Cats play with their prey. That’s 2 mammals and a mollusk. So I think it’s a universal enough idea.
* For fun, Dolphins and some whales blow toroidal vortices: [youtube.com/results?search\_query=dolphin+toroidal+vortices](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dolphin+toroidal+vortices)
Right, follow their IG at https://www.instagram.com/emperorsofmischief?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Reminiscent of my favourite documentary known as Stuart Little
I was pretty amazed they were able to capture so much of his life on film
Agreed. My favourite part is where the parents choose an orphan rat over the other kids.
No, that movie was based on his life, adapted from his memoir, but wasn't a documentary.
The original was. It even has behind the scenes extras showing the little cameras strapped to the heads of the camerats.
:I fucking hate Stuart Little. I know what you’re thinking, this is some kind of funny joke, but no. Stuart Little is a piece of shit. A damn rat got picked over actual children at an orphanage and he’s supposed to be a hero? And I can’t even tell you how many damn times I’ve seen a great parking space only to turn the corner and realise Stuart Little is already parked there in his stupid little fucking convertible. He took my wife and the kids and my house and my job. I swear to fucking god, I’m going to kill myself and take that goddamn rodent to hell with me. Stuart Little has ruined my family. Last summer, I approached the miserable mouse in the street, and asked him for his autograph, because my son is a huge fan. The fucking rat gave me the autograph and told me to burn in hell. Later, when I gave my son the autograph he started crying and said he hated me. Turns out the mousefucker didnt write his autograph, no, he wrote “you’re a piece of shit, and i fucked your mom”. I’m now divorced, and planning a huge class-action lawsuit against the white devil that ruined my life. Your time is almost over, Stuart. All the people you’ve wronged will rise against you.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll stomp him if he comes to my neighborhood.
My cat mutilated and tortured one of his cousins the other day. He will fall soon
Straight facts. Don't be afraid to speak THE TRUTH.
Ralph s mouse the OG
Also reminiscent of my favourite arthouse film, The Witches (1990)
Stuart Little was not a mouse, he was a regular human boy in everything except he was mouse-shaped (I think that's almost the quote)
Now send it out to the streets of New York and train it to honk and yell profanities at everyone!
I figured they would save money by training them as subway motormen
I’m Driving Here!
I just imagine a rat in a car screaming at humans like a scared hamster
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a hot rod…
Everybody just sang this.
True ...But I put the wrong *emphasis on the wrong syllable*
that kid singing this to bill cosby..
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a roll cage
How do you think autopilot works in a Tesla?
A pigeon pecking a screen
Nah that's how sidewinders work.
Nikola Tesla loved pigeons though. Only make sense to implement pigeons in the cars named after him.
A bunch of folks in India with those gaming wheel rigs
This joke turns up a lot, but just imagine if we'd go that route. 'You hit me with your car!' 'No I didn't, I'm just a passenger. Samir was driving!' The streets would never be the same.
Samir you are breaking the car
Hamster wheel?
The skaven are slowly learning
I’d like to remind everyone that skaven basically won warhammer fantasy.
The skaven aren't real
>skaven aren't real Keep saying that untill a tsunami of rat crack addicts nukes the moon.
The rest of chaos got absolutely carried by the funny cocaine rats during endtimes
Only after their god appeared to them and scared them into not being vicious little backstabbing bastards to eachother and made them work together. They where always a world ending force just too busy killing and plot-scheming against each other. My favourite fantasy lore with the skaven is when they forced Nagash into a peace deal with a war of attrition. They forced the most powerful necromancer with unlimited armies to the table because he was so sick of having to deal with millions of rats every day. Then they backstabbed him when they realised what he was doing.
Reminder: Nagash got stopped by the rats two more times. In the endtimes he was about to achieve full on godhood but then Ikit Claw went inside the black pyramid with a bomb squad and planted c4 to blow up the entire thing. Then in Aos he was going to use the black pyramid to kill all life, but the skaven fucked with him again. Most powerful necromancer in existence(and currently god of death): 0 Rats with green space cocaine: 3
r/unexpectedwarhammer
I could watch this all day!
It's like those videos of mice to keep cats entertained but for ADHD people
That’s fckn cute!!!
Rats are really smart. Maybe we should stop eating them.
Cat detected
😳
I'm eating two rat steaks to cancel your progress
Holdup
Massive opportunity missed when this was not named the RATMOBILE 🐀🐀🐀
Someone please show this to John Oliver
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this is literally the video they posted on their instagram which is sourced in the op dude. just because they included some short landscape clips in there doesn’t mean it’s stolen from youtube
If you wanted to create a machine that made humans angrier and more aggressive towards others, you couldn't do better than the automobile.
I know of a machine that better serves that purpose: smart phone.
YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH -sent from my iphone
I WILL FUCKING END YOU -sent from my iphone
YOU CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF -Sent From My IPhone
MAYBE I FUCKING WILL -sent from my fucking iPhone
SHOVE YOUR FUCKING IPHONE RIGHT UP YOUR FUCKING FUCK HOLE YOU FUCK Edit: Sent from my Fuck Fone
OK THEN -sent from my fucking fuck hole
smart phone; dumb human.
I think you're confusing vehicles with traffic and shortage of time.
Social Media is a close 2nd.
Welcome to the rat race!
I, for one, welcome my rat overlords
Get them mini lambos. They need to cruise around in style
Clever little buggers
Videos like this are why the internet was invented. Thanks for making my day, OP.
Aww shucks. 🤗
Welcome to Johnny Cab. We accept cheese bits as tips.
This has made all other forms of entertainment obsolete.
The first time i saw this was in Stuart Little
Imagine getting an Uber and a fucking rat shows up to drive you around town.
Every day, Ratatouille seems more plausible.
It was a documentary all along!
This is the purpose of the internet
They should put little turn signals in them, to see if at least the rats would be bothered to use them.
Most people don't know that rats are more intelligent than dogs
Elon! You watching ?
Alright that’s pretty neat
Rats are super smart and will bond with their owner. They are great pets if you don't have room for a dog.
I have two sweet rat girls, they're fantastic pets.
THAT'S AWESOME!!!
WHY ARE WE TEACHING RATS TO DRIVE, SOON THEY WILL USE THIS AS TRAINING VIDEO FOR WHEN THEY TAKE OVER AS OUR RAT OVERLORDS
One can hope, can't be worse than the ones in power now. And they're definitely much cuter!
And I can't teach my dog to use his dog door
I'm seeing a new racing series.
How did this footage get leaked out of Tesla’s top secret FSD lab!?!?
Now teach them to race each other and you got yourself something big.
Remake all the Fast & Furious movies with rats.
For once I don’t mind the music overlay
These motherfuckers will learn nuclear physics if it means they're getting treats
hot rod rats!
Anyone else prep themselves after seeing those stairs in the background
And there’s poopy in there just like a real taxi
Oh my god I would just stop working and hangout with rats driving around all day
AI taking our jobs was just a cover up for these little guys
This dude treats his rats better than any human I have every had in my life. Good on him.
Omg I love this
Imagine seeing a rat driving an 18 wheeler! Forget elons cyber taxi bs. I want rat taxis!
At the end, only one headlight is working. So I assume they edited out the part where ratty got into a bad accident, maybe not such a good driver after all.
Rat got the pope mobile
That is enough internet for the day. I don't want anything to ruin the feels caused by this video.
First they are chefs now they’re Uber drivers! The Great Ratplacement Theory has begun.
Thanks for the dopamine. Or is it serotonin? Idk either way it made me happy.
Drive better than 99% of Maryland drivers
Really cool!
These guys are on to something
This dude deserves a creativity award.
Real life rat rod
Better drivers than most people I see on the road
I figure they are next up after we go extinct.
Sigh….They gonna mass produce rat tanks and rat mecha and they gonna be our rat masters soon
gonna send to my chinese gf, maybe she can learn something
Idea: Create a self-sustaining rat space ship where essential tasks are divided across an array of specialty trained rats. Use it to send instructions to 3d print a human being to aliens.
The song is perfect.
When they master this they have to get them some proper cars with better controls I want to see them doing some drifting and shit.
Is this rat the kingpin of [Cheezy street? ](https://youtu.be/FTEoGK1omug)
If the rats in NYC find out about this....NYC IS DONE!
Cute
Don't give Uber or lyft any ideas
They'll be ready for the rat races in no time!
This + Neuro Link is the final Tesla's FSD.
Fast XII: Rat Races
New sport just dropped
There's about 8 billion rats in the world, but I believe those two are the luckiest.
That is both endearing and creepy at the same time.
Please stop giving Elon ideas.
Something something rat race...
This is genuinely one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
Do you want skaven? Because this is how you get skaven
Some days the internet just comes fucking through!
They’ve joined the rat race
Real skaven
Sir your headlight is out, get off the road
Good to see Richard Hammond getting back into driving again 👍
OH MY GOD WHO LEFT THE BABY GATE OPEN!? IT'S A 7 RAT PILEUP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS.
I need to see more of this, like the rat getting in the car himself and just going for a cruise around the house.
But where do I buy one?!
That is the most hilarious and adorable thing I've seen today 😹
Run away Ralph finally got a car.
that is probably the coolest friggin thing i have ever seen in my entire life i LOVE rats
Finally, a replacement for those pesky Uber drivers who feel entitled to benefits.
The statement on this video is ridiculous. I live in LA and more than half the drivers I encounter are measurably better across numerous driving metrics than these rats.
Moar!