Make the Homer car you cowards
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cars should be legally required to be fuck-ugly so people are less keen to buy them
Under Communism, every driver will be forced to own a Fiat Multipla.
That is absolutely hideous wtf.
It almost makes me appreciate the current breed of bland, uninspiring crossover SUVs. At least gray, amorphous blobs don't look actively repulsive.
Don't threaten me with a good time
I feel like people will still find a way to love them. Or they'd blame the woke agenda for making them ugly. But seriously, look at all the fucking ugly ass land yatchs on the road. We need to go back to the 90s with soft curves so that all the manly men get mad at how soft trucks/SUVs have gotten.
Most cars are hideous AF and people still love them, or at the very least cannot imagine a world without them.
Pre-radicalization me had a business idea that was just gas stations but for EVs. It was all well-intentioned, but it was proof even I couldn't imagine the reduced omnipresence of the automobile. Unfortunately as leftists we tend not be good salesmen, so many people subconsciously DO prefer walkable cities even if they aren't aware they are. To Americans, walkability is je ne sais quoi they like about European and Asian cities, but will short-circuit when you're told its because cars are not a priority. To them, it's alien. I'm not saying this to bash on them, since I was in this group before but moreso point out that Americans and Canadians might be more open to this than one may think, here's a study showing that Americans generally prefer walkable cities.
I miss when sport-class was sharp and angular and original muscle-class looked like gorgeously chrome-detailed angels of the empty blacktops
Cars should be legally required to look cool but only the state owned taxi company can buy them
We just discovered the most optimal shape for cars. It's not surprising everything looks similar.
Anyway death to cars, unlimited car-icide on cars.
It's going to get worse.
I really like this mock up but the Chevy PedestrianKiller will clearly come out ~2030 and not 2070. By 2070 APCs will have street legal versions.
Modern cars mostly (disregarding) look the same because they're made to be safer and have crumple zones, right?
It's actually more for aerodynamics and efficiency. This is why all cars have started to look really similar. The best shape for a car won't change because physics so there's not a lot of room for artistic flair.
It's really funny they care about aerodynamics so much because the mileage on some of these cars is just truly awful. We could have cool looking cars that aren't aerodynamic but they wouldn't be as good at crushing pavement and plowing children..
they don't really care that much, just enough to hit the legal bare minimum to keep making bigger SUVs than last year. If they actually cared about efficiency we'd all be driving these.
I think a more realistic idea of what everyone would be driving if everyone actually cared about maximum efficiency would be the 1st generation Honda Insight, a car famous in the hypermiling community for its efficiency.
I disagree that aerodynamics optimization is the reason that a lot of cars have started to look for the same. Here are 3 highly aerodynamic cars that have been explicitly optimized for aerodynamics, each with their own unique flair:
1st generation Honda Insight
1st generation Tesla Model 3
5th generation Toyota Prius
It's impossible to confuse one of these cars for each other. Automakers absolutely can make gorgeous and distinct looking cars without compromising aerodynamics, they simply choose not to.
It's impossible to confuse one of these cars for each other.
You say that but my partner seems to be entirely incapable of telling the difference, even here. All cars are just "an car" to her. Kind of awesome in a strange way. It's like vehicular face-blindness.
I started training my wife so she could recognize cop cars sooner. My weaponized autism is literally noticing a cop car from a blurry vibe 2 miles down the highway.
SAFETY IS BORING
On a more serious note, they could at least give them interesting patterns or something, right?
SAFETY IS BORING
More like Dirt_Owlon, amirite?
On a more serious note, they could at least give them interesting patterns or something, right?
I feel like they try this for rich people cars, but I hate them 90+% of the time lol
That's because rich people have no imagination and can't art to save themselves.
they could at least give them interesting patterns or something, right?
Manufacturers can offer all the options and decorations they want but as long as most people are slaves to resale value, most cars will be boring and inoffensive. It's much easier to find a buyer for a black or white car than it is for a pink car.
thicc A-pillars and that ugly ass slope up the bottom of the window line from front to the back so you can't see shit are supposedly safety features, yeah.
I just want my little apple car so I can drive to worm in peace
If they are at least cheap and reliable then it's at least acceptable. However, besides from boring and fugly these new monstrosity are also chocked full of proprietary parts and software that are impossible to fix and is a privacy nightmare.
The best part of Cyberpunk 2077 is that every car is ugly and useless. Just a completely accurate prediction of the future.
I think that's just design convergence. It's not like Ladas and Yugos were statues of Lenin on wheels or anything. Cars look like cars because car is a very good shape for a car.
Its design convergence in response to strict safety & environmental regulations. There aren’t that many designs that will meet all of the constraints. For example, more effort to improve side overlap collisions requires beefier A-pillars.
Though it is changing a bit with the introduction of EVs which don’t need all the transmission and other components running under the floorboards.
Hot take, we might be better off if cars were less safe because people might drive more safely. Kind of like how rugby is safer than American football because they don’t wear helmets and lots of pads.
the safety improvements in cars for a long time were about protecting you from the other maniacs on the road, not from yourself. i could be convinced that lane assist and things like it cause complacency, but we should have seatbelts and crumple zones
we might be better off if cars were less safe because people might drive more safely
We tried that, though, and people did not drive more safely.
I WANT MY LENIN CAR:
I just like a boring and simple Honda or Corolla. Granted, I spent enough time looking cool biking up to 4 hours a day cause my mountain bike was more reliable around suburbs and country roads than the buses.
I just like a boring and simple Honda or Corolla.
I agree with both you and op.
There are some cool cars still. They’re just very expensive.
Though, the Honda E is relatively affordable
That Lexus landrover lookin thing belongs in the trash
They're also fuckin stupidly designed.
Hey engineers, hey dipshits, why the fuck aren't headlight covers just designed to like, pop open from the front? My brother just had to change his headlights and it involved taking a bunch of screws off so that he could pop off the back of the wheel well and then get into the headlight casing from behind and it was a massive pain in the ass. Every fucking component on every car is blocked off by layers of unnecessary bullshit
We had the Dome Zero in the 70s, then cowards didn't make cars look like that
Being hit from behind by this on my bicycle and simply getting scooped up, rolling over the top and then drop off the back unharmed and upright, albeit entirely confused
I love those US cars from the 1950s, that you can still see a ton of in Cuba because of the embargo. I realize they're tanks, but they do look incredible. Like why don't they take those sick frames, and mash it / engineer it on a modern car model.
Cause those things are death traps for the inhabitants. Cars look ugly as shit due to safety reasons for the people inside of them and like half of them are actively detrimental to everybody not-in-that-car
They're death traps because they don't have shit like crumple zones, they're asking why don't they just make them look cool but still design them with things like that