Reading this is just so incredibly infuriating. Seriously, fuck the US auto industry. And that includes anyone who is stupid enough to buy this kind of monstrosity. This car is a fricking...
Reading this is just so incredibly infuriating. Seriously, fuck the US auto industry. And that includes anyone who is stupid enough to buy this kind of monstrosity. This car is a fricking murdermobile! There are literally zero engineering reasons to have that grill that high and to obscure that much of the road; the car is tall enough you could easily fit the engine under the seats! And that is before we talk about how much pollution it generates.
For anyone who thinks that regulation doesn't work, they need to see this giant gaping and obvious example of what happens when we don't regulate the products sold on the market.
Not just the US marques. Here in the UK too our roads are blighted with ugly, dangerous, oversized SUVs. They're too big for our roads and they're always driven so imperiously that as another road...
Not just the US marques. Here in the UK too our roads are blighted with ugly, dangerous, oversized SUVs. They're too big for our roads and they're always driven so imperiously that as another road user - and especially as a cyclist - you tend to think they'd sooner have you in the ditch than give you an inch more tarmac.
That depends on what engineering is, and the car is. If its just a tool made for transport then "no". If it's on the other hand a product - the absolutely there is. That doesn't make it right or...
That depends on what engineering is, and the car is. If its just a tool made for transport then "no". If it's on the other hand a product - the absolutely there is. That doesn't make it right or good, just about as right and good as pouring sugar in to white bread, or sexying up a brand aimed at young men, or all the other ways a product is made for sale, not use.
It's a good thing Escalades don' seem to sell as an extremely high amount of the market, at least in my area (maybe in richer areas?). If people are buying bigger, more dangerous, scarier vehicles...
It's a good thing Escalades don' seem to sell as an extremely high amount of the market, at least in my area (maybe in richer areas?).
If people are buying bigger, more dangerous, scarier vehicles because they feel unsafe driving, they'll need the tech to feel safe, which means they'll buy the next version. They won't go to a smaller car when, statistically, smaller cars lose in the crash with their Escalade (or other SUV). It's probably a part of a cycle.
I've always looked at vehicle design as a curiosity; the stylistic trends that come and go parallel the fashion industry in some ways. I'm not a truck owner (nor am I in the market for one) so I...
I've always looked at vehicle design as a curiosity; the stylistic trends that come and go parallel the fashion industry in some ways. I'm not a truck owner (nor am I in the market for one) so I wasn't aware of this new movement toward huge, explicitly aggressive truck hoods that completely blind drivers to what's in their immediate path until I read this other recent article posted on Tildes. Now I'm starting to think this is more than just a style, it's actively immoral design. That embedded photo of a little kid standing in front of it made my stomach churn. I feel like anyone who would willingly purchase one of these monstrosities must be some sort of sadist.
I think we have to be careful to not chalk stuff up to malicious intent when just reactive short-sightedness can do. I can see the charm sitting in something that basically is its own world,...
I think we have to be careful to not chalk stuff up to malicious intent when just reactive short-sightedness can do.
I can see the charm sitting in something that basically is its own world, isolating me from the world outside and ensuring that whatever the outcome I wont be the one hurt unless I smash in to a freight train. A roadbased space ship of a car.
The logic in the article: that there are all these sensors and gadgets and gizmos providing what would previously have been solved by using your eyes must sound so awesome and obvious in a high-gloss purchaser pamphlet - so comforting. "Haptic signals" squished in to the car seat? I can see how that could sell trucks. First hooking me with the gizmo angle, and then with the reassuring "will give you better control and overview of the road when backing out" - without never really mentioning that the only reason its needed is because I can't see anything.
I wonder, and this is basically just a hipshot without any form of further thinking, if the size of the car - the need for some ideal of control - also ties together with a sensation of a larger loss of control in the world in general?
Reading this is just so incredibly infuriating. Seriously, fuck the US auto industry. And that includes anyone who is stupid enough to buy this kind of monstrosity. This car is a fricking murdermobile! There are literally zero engineering reasons to have that grill that high and to obscure that much of the road; the car is tall enough you could easily fit the engine under the seats! And that is before we talk about how much pollution it generates.
For anyone who thinks that regulation doesn't work, they need to see this giant gaping and obvious example of what happens when we don't regulate the products sold on the market.
Not just the US marques. Here in the UK too our roads are blighted with ugly, dangerous, oversized SUVs. They're too big for our roads and they're always driven so imperiously that as another road user - and especially as a cyclist - you tend to think they'd sooner have you in the ditch than give you an inch more tarmac.
That depends on what engineering is, and the car is. If its just a tool made for transport then "no". If it's on the other hand a product - the absolutely there is. That doesn't make it right or good, just about as right and good as pouring sugar in to white bread, or sexying up a brand aimed at young men, or all the other ways a product is made for sale, not use.
It's a good thing Escalades don' seem to sell as an extremely high amount of the market, at least in my area (maybe in richer areas?).
If people are buying bigger, more dangerous, scarier vehicles because they feel unsafe driving, they'll need the tech to feel safe, which means they'll buy the next version. They won't go to a smaller car when, statistically, smaller cars lose in the crash with their Escalade (or other SUV). It's probably a part of a cycle.
I've always looked at vehicle design as a curiosity; the stylistic trends that come and go parallel the fashion industry in some ways. I'm not a truck owner (nor am I in the market for one) so I wasn't aware of this new movement toward huge, explicitly aggressive truck hoods that completely blind drivers to what's in their immediate path until I read this other recent article posted on Tildes. Now I'm starting to think this is more than just a style, it's actively immoral design. That embedded photo of a little kid standing in front of it made my stomach churn. I feel like anyone who would willingly purchase one of these monstrosities must be some sort of sadist.
I think we have to be careful to not chalk stuff up to malicious intent when just reactive short-sightedness can do.
I can see the charm sitting in something that basically is its own world, isolating me from the world outside and ensuring that whatever the outcome I wont be the one hurt unless I smash in to a freight train. A roadbased space ship of a car.
The logic in the article: that there are all these sensors and gadgets and gizmos providing what would previously have been solved by using your eyes must sound so awesome and obvious in a high-gloss purchaser pamphlet - so comforting. "Haptic signals" squished in to the car seat? I can see how that could sell trucks. First hooking me with the gizmo angle, and then with the reassuring "will give you better control and overview of the road when backing out" - without never really mentioning that the only reason its needed is because I can't see anything.
I wonder, and this is basically just a hipshot without any form of further thinking, if the size of the car - the need for some ideal of control - also ties together with a sensation of a larger loss of control in the world in general?