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This too, how are people able to afford these new contemporary black and white 2M homes all of a sudden and 1M townhomes where you can high five neighbor?

TooOlfForThisIsh TooOlfForThisIsh M Mark Antony

I Dont Be Trynna Pocket Watch But When Yall Find Out Let Me Know.Too

Because I Thought I Was Doing Well For Myself Finacially But My Math Still Aint Mathing Right To Add Up.
 
It is not just from my own personal experience.

Big cars are a major problem for pedestrians...


Mix bad drivers, with poor traffic control, lack of public transit, Americans bad aggressive driving, and large cars, you have a recipe for a ton of deaths.

People driving smaller cars on a large scale will save a lot of lives and probably drive down gas demand.

I understand the convenience arguments, but I don't accept them because it would be better for the country on a macro level of people weren't in these vehicles in the scale we have now

Makes that new Hummer EV even more terrifying

It's way too big to be that fast. 3 second 0-60 at 9000 pounds :emoji_grimacing:



 
Bring back the Subaru brat and Mitsubishi mighty max.

Ban altimas. The drivers are menaces.

That hummer is 🗑️, bet it’s top 10 least reliable vehicles soon.

That’s my 2cents on the subject.
 
Bring back the Subaru brat and Mitsubishi mighty max.

Ban altimas. The drivers are menaces.

That hummer is 🗑️, bet it’s top 10 least reliable vehicles soon.

That’s my 2cents on the subject.

Altimas are a staple with rental cars now. Hence why you see so many.
 
The overall weight of most EVs is going to exceed that of a normal car. By a lot.

I’m not totally hip to the advancements in battery technology but obviously they will need to figure it out. Heavier car means more wear on roads, more wear on tires, more tire waste and so on.
 
The overall weight of most EVs is going to exceed that of a normal car. By a lot.

I’m not totally hip to the advancements in battery technology but obviously they will need to figure it out. Heavier car means more wear on roads, more wear on tires, more tire waste and so on.

That’s true - design has a lot to do with it too though - and many of these large vehicles have high square front ends. That can be deadly for a pedestrian and they’re not safer. Modern cars that pass the best safety tests (think brands like Volvo) don’t have that sort of shape.

It’s also not aerodynamic so it’s odd that EV makers would pay attention to that.
 
That’s true - design has a lot to do with it too though - and many of these large vehicles have high square front ends. That can be deadly for a pedestrian and they’re not safer. Modern cars that pass the best safety tests (think brands like Volvo) don’t have that sort of shape.

It’s also not aerodynamic so it’s odd that EV makers would pay attention to that.
It's always been my assumption that pedestrians are not taken into account during safety testing, and that what matters to car makers is safety for drivers and passengers.
 
It's always been my assumption that pedestrians are not taken into account during safety testing, and that what matters to car makers is safety for drivers and passengers.
No, that’s actually exactly wrong. Much of the bloated look of modern cars has to do with pedestrian safety regulations.


When you combine that with rollover safety regs on the B and C pillar, you get high seated passengers with much less visibility through the windows. That necessitated the now ubiquitous cameras.

Driving has really become a “by wire” exercise where instrumentation replaces direct sensory feedback. The driver is isolated from the transmission, from direct sight, and largely from a lot of road feedback. My wife’s 2017 A4 is so much more comfortable to operate, but it hardly feels like driving compared to my (manual) 2002 3 series.

When we eventually buy a house, I want to garage my M3 and buy something more practical to daily, and I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it’ll likely just be a rolling robot and not a car as I learned how to drive.
 
This constant characterizations of Universities as liberal playgrounds doesn’t really reconcile with either the Math departments I’ve been in nor the business schools my wife has taught in.

And if the finger is so heavily on the scale, how do they explain the current make-up of matriculating and graduating students.

It’s all so incredibly tiring. White people’s obsession with reverse racism is just. So. Tiring.
 
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