Jack Your Car Up With Exhaust

Here’s the idea: You attach a hose to the exhaust pipe of your car, which inflates a balloon that can lift a three-ton vehicle 18 inches and hold it for as long as 45 minutes. The utility is obvious: You can change a tire or even help extract a stranded car from mud or deep snow without the use of a flimsy traditional car jack.

We have an issue, however: Let’s make sure that balloon holds, as having a car collapse unexpectedly as you receive a face-full of tailpipe emissions would not be fun. Also, as with any balloon, it must surely be possible to over-inflate it, right?

Also, a regular jack — which, honestly, does not take a degree in nuclear physics to operate — will work even if the car’s battery is dead.

Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car With a Toxic Balloon (Gizmodo)