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Anon likes bikes

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

No. No they are not.

Unless you're driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren't centred in a car, which is disorienting.

Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it's an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it.

Then there's the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver.

Driving a car is fucking hard. There's a reason you need to pass a test before they'll even let you practice.

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