03-15-2017, 06:08 PM
(03-15-2017, 04:24 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I do remember being 14, which I turned the year 2000 (yeah, I know), and being able to tell what decade a car was made just by looking at it, and being eager to see what the next decades styles would bring. Apparently the answer, 17 years later, is absolutely nothing.
Although, to be honest, I am pretty sure wind tunnels and computer-modeling software have a lot to do with it as well. Not to mention the old issues of standardized frames and other parts.
Looking forward, I remain hopeful that things like electric and driverless cars, which afford the opportunity to radically change things like motor and steering wheel placement, will allow for more radical changes in body styles. On the other hand, I think we are past the glorious heyday of the automobile as status signifier/symbol of freedom/ubiquitous asset.
1. Cars are just a boat anchor when it comes to actually living. You have to maintain it, you have to pay taxes on it, and of course you have to drive it in shitty places.
2. Holy fuck, man. Why not leave the driving to mass transit? I did that in Houston and it really reduces stress levels. The hell with assorted <excuses here for stupid mind numbing driving whatever vehicles>.
3. Here's what I want. I want mass transit to take me where I want to go. Rags is a lazy fuck who hates paying attention driving. CUE, INTP desire to decouple from "reality". I want to get from point X to point Z without having to pay attention to boring other vehicles/road conditions/shitty billboards./
4. Electric cars are just fucking shit, man. Just bring the trolleys/passenger rail back and I'll be content, OK?
5. Rags thinks cars are a fucking boat anchor wrt true freedom, OK?
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