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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

The slowest common denominator decides how much man you are heh

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Alternative opinion:
Car companies should stop making normal cars and instead only make hardcore vehicles. I'm talking race cars that are challenging and uncomfortable to drive.
manual only, aggressive clutches, loud gears, stiff suspension, non-adjustable seat, no heat, no ac, no radio, etc.

Then while they're making this change we expand the shit out of mass transport and infrastructure!

I can assure you that nobody wants to daily drive my race car. lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I want all of those things. I can assure you, I want to drive a V8 loud as fuck, manual thick clutched, wide tired, non AC, non radio, rear wheel drive, fucking street menace of a vehicle.

But I also want an absolute rehaul of our infrastructure to include high speed rail for the entire country, and comprehensive pricing that is subsidized by the government with my tax money and provided for free if I need it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I want all of those things. I can assure you, I want to drive a V8 loud as fuck, manual thick clutched, wide tired, non AC, non radio, rear wheel drive, fucking street menace of a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you understand that I'm perfectly okay with this and if you posted this to be ironic or snarky... You just made my dick hard and that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you understand that I'm perfectly okay with this

Thanks, cap, I noticed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and you and i are the 0.1% lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

... Me too but make it electric to blow the doors off Maseratis from the lights.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

lol front car is Trauma B

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I feel like a more accurate (though much less catchy) name for this community would be !fuckcarcentricsociety. Cars are awesome! They're fun to drive, feats of engineering, and in the right conditions like a rollercoaster without tracks. They just fucking suck when they're practically required to live. I'm as big a proponent for public transit, you shouldn't need a car to get to your job or grocery store, but you can't look at something like F1 and say that's not exhilarating.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Something that NotJustBikes brings up in one of their videos is that the Netherlands' incredibly bike- and public transit-oriented infrastructure makes driving a car (for those who want or need it) much more pleasant as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not even car centric in the US or you would have way more roundabouts instead of traffic lights.

I don't know what the US is, but it's shitty for everyone, including cars. The difference is, that cars are comfortable to sit in, but the actual driving is a nightmare compared to Europe. (And walking half a mile in the summer sun from the car to the stadium on a concrete parking lot should be attributed to car centric infrastructure too).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

That's simply the paradox of car-centric design: It also sucks for cars. The only way to actually make driving better is to provide viable alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (16 children)

but you can’t look at something like F1 and say that’s not exhilarating.

strong disagree. perhaps in the 60s and 70s - before we understood that ICE was spewing carbon dioxide and ruining the ecosystem sure.

Today? F1 is a fucking travesty - rich assholes burning crazy amounts of fuel to speed around in circles taking more from future generations every fucking lap.

If it were all electric powered by renewable resources harvested nearby I'd have less of an issue, but anything combusting is a giant middle finger to your own children. "Sorry skippy, even we knew, we still didn't give a fuck to stop the silly games."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Today? F1 is a fucking travesty - rich assholes burning crazy amounts of fuel to speed around in circles taking more from future generations every fucking lap.

While I don't disagree that spectating races is boring, the amount of CO2 those put out pale in comparison to commutator traffic or the container ships running bunker fuel. We could have EV races and if each manufacturer entered their base models, could help with adoption. We could also make the ICE races run biogas(methane from antibiotic digesters) or biodiesel(tractor pulls could easily adopt that with only a small lowering of performance that all the tractors would share).

but anything combusting is a giant middle finger to your own children.

All consumption is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Container ships are some of the most efficient things on the planet. Per person f1 has insane output

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But are all the things they transport necessary? Is it necessary for them to burn bunker fuel? Fuel so dirty, they aren't allowed to burn it near the ports and have to switch to diesel. There's some effort to design sail container ships, but how much plastic shit or Fast Fashion shit do we need?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh certainly not. But they're certainly still much more worth it overall than an f1 race. I mean, I do have more extremist environment takes. I think fast fashion should be banned and most plastics too just outright

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone who has a big guilty pleasure for sports/performance cars and racing in general, this comic actually explains really well how I'm able to reconcile that with my dislike of car-centric infrastructure and wishing for better public transportation: without other means for getting around cities for people who don't care much about cars (i.e. most people), everyone will be forced to use cars for basic transport, meaning really clogged highways and traffic jams that directly affect you and your fancy sports car's enjoyment.

Conversely, if infrastructure was more accommodating for bikes, trains and buses to make them more viable, most people would use them, leaving the streets and highways freer for you to have fun driving your sports car the way it was meant to, instead of being stuck in traffic jams most of the time.

I just wish most people who are into cars realized this, instead of raving about how "they want to take away our cars!" and fellating Andrew Tate and other shitheads.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Why aren't sport cars rented instead of sold? Only place you can really use them is the race track.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lots of racetracks sell packages like this, pay $$ to take out a certain car or groups of cars. But for lots of people it's just as much about the tuning/improving of their own car as it is about the driving.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 children)

While I can afford it, I intentionally have the smallest, most efficient vehicle I can possibly get away with owning while still meeting my mandatory social requirement of having a vehicle.

Due to a lack of public transportation, it is required. There’s no other practical means I can use to do the 45 minute commute to work, short of perhaps buying a motorcycle which puts me at risk due to the predominance of huge SUVs. I’ve considered an E bike, but we don’t even have sidewalks on this route.

I just can’t swallow investing in something that either sits outside or sits in traffic. I don’t use half of what that little four banger is capable of.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love the groceries in the front seat because there's no room anywhere else.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How I felt last week in my busted up 350k miles shitbox when there was a Lamborghini and Ferrari beside me crawling through traffic. Even once we were out of gridlock their average speed was probably the exact same as mine. My car costs probably 500 dollars and there's cost literally a 1000 times more than that. Made me feel good. Also made me feel like ramming them just because

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As it turns out, road speed is limited by laws, safety and traffic, not the HP of your car engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

At least in my state, traffic tends to be the only inhibitor

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's what I tell people. The reality of driving sucks. You might be in love with your fantasy of a 500 HP beast, but

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

1969 and it is still relevant.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The groceries in the passenger seat are a nice touch, because of course there's gonna be no trunk space.

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