Pulling up behind a Cybertruck and a DeLorean has truly been the double rainbow of my day.
https://subium.com/profile/katieherrmann.bsky.social/post/3l2dgr4g6oo2u
it makes the delorean look practical.
i drive a 20+ year old car, and it 99% of the time, it is the smallest vehicle in parking lot or on the road. by comparison, i am one of the larger adult sons (6’ ~250 lb) in the parking lot or on the road, and i don’t feel cramped in the car. it is batshit how huge everything else on the road is, including the current year versions of the thing i drive. vehicles that barely fit into parking spaces and are always crowding over. they have to be navigated around and i must always give way like they’re a container cargo ship maneuvering a narrow shipping lane, because they might not see my little tug from their vantage on the weather deck.
not to mention the trucks, sized similar to the commercial ones i saw in japan that were hauling 4 tons of gravel down the highway. except in the states, they are just hauling one american to the food box for their hourly sugar blaster with extra mayo-cheese sauce.
The carbrain insecurity arms race is why every vehicle on the road seems required to be larger and larger with each incarnation. No carbrain wants to be in the littler vehicle.
When the “Swiss Army Knife” could fit in a pocket and still be useful was replaced by a “Gerber/Leatherman Multitool” that has to be carried in a case on a belt because its bigger than a smart phone.
if it’s in my pocket, how can I show it off as an aspect of my identity
where tf are you getting your giant multitools or tiny smartphones? every multitool i’ve ever had was pocketable and smaller than every smartphone i’ve had
i never got one but i think the belt thing is more about weight because some people don’t like the uneven torque (besides larping and the 2% of facilities workers where the convenience matters)
90% joke comment, comrade.
But I have seen some pretty bulky Swiss Army knives and awkwardly large multitools over the years.
it’s partly this, but it’s also EPA regulations that basically allow these cars to be bigger. The larger their footprint, the lower their gas mileage has to be. Automakers can make a large, low mileage car (easily hitting the gas mileage requirement) without being penalized per sale.
The
answer to that would be slash and burn deregulation, but better regulations that didn’t allow that kind of bullshit upward trajectory would obviously be better.
Two bad overpriced cars but a least the DeLorean looks cool
An iconic bad car next to an iconic car that’s bad.
Early 90s car graphics (left) Vs late 90s car graphics.
I finally saw my first cyvertruck irl, I can’t wait to see how it copes with a harsh winter full of road salt. I fully expect it to dissolve into a pile of rust before next april
Obscuring the license plate of the cybertruck
Kill the R*dditor in your head.
What’s wrong with obscuring license plates? People on the internet are weird and have a long history of going way overboard when it comes to stuff like this.
This place is getting exhausting with all the tryhard edgy commentary…
“In the 2020s we’re gonna have flying cars”
the double rainbow of my day
haha EPIC WINNING! like a BAWWSS
