There is a general thought among the car owner community that it is possible to open locked car door with nothing but a tennis ball.
The idea behind it is to make a hole in a tennis ball and place it over the keyhole of the car, then with one strike squeezing the tennis ball hard the air pressure will unlock the car door.
This method is often presented as a simple trick in different online videos but the effectiveness of this technique are highly questionable. Car locks were designed to resist these simple methods and most modern cars use electronic systems that would not be influenced by air pressure.
This story gained so much traffic that Discovery Channel MythBusters did a whole episode on this subject and after few tests they found that this technique is not working!
This highlights an important lesson that it doesn’t mater how viral it becomes before believing anything you see on YouTube It’s important to double check it.
This is especially true for any online videos which have become very popular as anyone can make a video and post whatever they want without being held accountable for if its true.
