Is that new reality going to end up being a shinier version of Office Space for everyone, everywhere, forever?
If so you can keep all that shit.
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Menstruation sucks and anything I can do to make their lives easier makes my life easier.
But that’s because I’m the man: The man with a good attitude towards menstruation
Thirteen also can’t be divided evenly and is widely considered bad luck.
As a man living with three menstruating women I learned very quickly how to count to 28 on three different cycles.
Car bumpers are usually able to take a 5-10 mph crash without more than cosmetic damage. But that's only if the bumpers hit each other. The fuckoff huge trucks have their bumpers up where the tailgate is, which will crumple the lid an maybe fuck up your frame which can total a car even in a light impact
A low CoG helps, for sure. But if the car is twice as heavy everything that holds the car off the road needs to be twice as strong to handle it. And then there's still inertia to deal with, especially when turning or braking.
And then to get the same amount of performance out of it they need to make it incredibly overpowered, and then sell it to people who have no business driving something that can go 0-60 in four seconds.
I checked to see if there were any EV sports cars because having handling like that would be amazing, but the ones that aren't hypercars are all just special trims on base model cars.
I think you're right about that, and I also don't think car designers actually care anymore. I see all kinds of vehicles with huge C pillars - like that Camry you rented - and a lot of them have dented bumpers like they backed into something they couldn't see.
Car companies don't fix the designs, though. They just add more features like BLIS and proximity sensors that beep at you when you're too close to something. This helps, sure, but it also reinforces the idea that drivers don't need to actually look around them.
With our aging population, we'll have even more people who can't physically turn to see what's around them. And because these folks also have trouble getting into and out of cars of normal height, they buy CUVs which have even worse visibility.
They claim the C stands for "compact" but I like yours better.
Normal SUVs are so huge one that's the size of a house is considered "compact."
I remember being excited about the "hot hatch styling" of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 until I found out it's actually the size of an SUV.
Also, it will probably be twice as heavy as my GTI. That will be super great for handling, I'm sure.
Then again, normal people don't buy those things and the fact that I don't like this will ensure it's a hit
I'm of the opinion that putting small cars way up in the air as CUVs ruins the driving so much it makes people worse drivers.
Or maybe it's just that every CUV I see driving acts like they don't know where they are or what they're doing.
Spice might be like mycelium on Arrakis.