I am an adult.
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Yes, this means the new USPS trucks are about what the fronts of anything big should look like. Including the very visible position of the driver.image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV
This mail truck is cute, but I think it will be annoying to have to keep shooing people who will sit on it like a bench when you park it away.
I guess if you start it up they might go?
Do electric cars have a start up sound?
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@futurebird In the south, of course, there are people actively trying to do worse. Because, you know.
This has perplexed me for years, not only on safety but style as well... I can only guess that somebody saw a truck in the shop with its engine out and thought "Hey, that looks pretty snazzy. I want my truck to look like it's partly disassembled, too."
It looks like it is trying to fly...
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This is very cute but I think the snow we get when we do get snow (which isn't often, but still) well it would eat this little car.
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I am an adult. I’m short, yes, but this is ridiculous. The hood on this truck is higher than my shoulder. It forms in 90° angle with the ground. hideous! There’s no way they could see me in the crosswalk.
They were double parked. Even with the engine off it felt unsafe to walk in front of this thing. I would be so embarrassed to drive a car like this if I were not … plowing snow?
I don't often draw people but this car inspired me to make a sketch I hope I can render into something worth showing some day.
Basically, a group of kids and adults are running across the crosswalk with ice cream, and pinwheels from NYC street fair. They are looking at each other and having a wonderful time.
Meanwhile, in the dim narrow window of the car, the driver leans forward frowning, straining, looking down to try to see what's going on right in front of them.
Life is passing you by.
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I don't often draw people but this car inspired me to make a sketch I hope I can render into something worth showing some day.
Basically, a group of kids and adults are running across the crosswalk with ice cream, and pinwheels from NYC street fair. They are looking at each other and having a wonderful time.
Meanwhile, in the dim narrow window of the car, the driver leans forward frowning, straining, looking down to try to see what's going on right in front of them.
Life is passing you by.
The windows are tinted, or at least shaded, the car is so tall and high you can hardly see. The car is sound insulated and there is even noise canceling so nothing from the outside world can reach you in there.
And maybe the computer will drive for you sometimes too. It's like you never left your house. The world cannot touch you. You are alone.
Do we ever talk about how cars make people lonely?
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The windows are tinted, or at least shaded, the car is so tall and high you can hardly see. The car is sound insulated and there is even noise canceling so nothing from the outside world can reach you in there.
And maybe the computer will drive for you sometimes too. It's like you never left your house. The world cannot touch you. You are alone.
Do we ever talk about how cars make people lonely?
@futurebird@sauropods.win I've thought about this a lot since I got here.
Everyone is going around in private rooms that turn the people around you into obstacles in your way and reduce most daily interactions to a beep meaning "out of my way!", as opposed to "good morning, excuse me, may I?" in public transport.
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The windows are tinted, or at least shaded, the car is so tall and high you can hardly see. The car is sound insulated and there is even noise canceling so nothing from the outside world can reach you in there.
And maybe the computer will drive for you sometimes too. It's like you never left your house. The world cannot touch you. You are alone.
Do we ever talk about how cars make people lonely?
Are these people really so fragile they need to be packed in a padded box like brittle bone China just to drive to the store? Would a summer breeze knock you over? Would the shouts of children at the playground shatter your ears? Is the sunlight on a bright summer day too bright for your eyes?
Is life too much for you?
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I've thought about this a lot since I got here.
Everyone is going around in private rooms that turn the people around you into obstacles in your way and reduce most daily interactions to a beep meaning "out of my way!", as opposed to "good morning, excuse me, may I?" in public transport.
Of course people feel isolated and lonely.@mzedp@plasmatrap.comhttps://youtu.be/e_oWmY_mkCA
amazingly the people at this car company were so car-brained that they filmed this whole ad without realising that they were saying exactly that.
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@mzedp@plasmatrap.comhttps://youtu.be/e_oWmY_mkCA
amazingly the people at this car company were so car-brained that they filmed this whole ad without realising that they were saying exactly that.
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Are these people really so fragile they need to be packed in a padded box like brittle bone China just to drive to the store? Would a summer breeze knock you over? Would the shouts of children at the playground shatter your ears? Is the sunlight on a bright summer day too bright for your eyes?
Is life too much for you?
Many of those oversized cars have a camera to see what's in front of the driver.
But soon or later the screen will start to show ads instead of the road, until the driver will pay for a subscription to the service…
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Many of those oversized cars have a camera to see what's in front of the driver.
But soon or later the screen will start to show ads instead of the road, until the driver will pay for a subscription to the service…
People talk about "screen time" but looking at a screen to see something that you ought to be able to see by, well, looking right at it with your eyes is a new level of unreality.
Will people allow themselves to be sealed off from the world so completely that *nothing* is experienced directly?
(That said, rear-view cameras are kind of awesome, but this tech has only really been developed so much because of the poor sight-lines of what passes for car design.)
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Are these people really so fragile they need to be packed in a padded box like brittle bone China just to drive to the store? Would a summer breeze knock you over? Would the shouts of children at the playground shatter your ears? Is the sunlight on a bright summer day too bright for your eyes?
Is life too much for you?
FYI, here's a Mercedes Benz video ad from 1990 that might answer some of your questions.
Designed to be openly racist, too, down to its very core (note the attitudes shown in every mini-event; the sound design; how the locals get pictured). It's title is "Willkommen zu Hause" (Welcome Home), and it is set in – Tunesia.
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People talk about "screen time" but looking at a screen to see something that you ought to be able to see by, well, looking right at it with your eyes is a new level of unreality.
Will people allow themselves to be sealed off from the world so completely that *nothing* is experienced directly?
(That said, rear-view cameras are kind of awesome, but this tech has only really been developed so much because of the poor sight-lines of what passes for car design.)
People WANT to live in Matrix pods.
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FYI, here's a Mercedes Benz video ad from 1990 that might answer some of your questions.
Designed to be openly racist, too, down to its very core (note the attitudes shown in every mini-event; the sound design; how the locals get pictured). It's title is "Willkommen zu Hause" (Welcome Home), and it is set in – Tunesia.
I understand from the way it's put together I'm supposed to sympathize with the guy but I just watched thinking "wow what a huge asshole" the whole time.
And the ad is racist, but in that way where if you discuss it eventually someone will ask "but how is it racist? he just wants quiet?" and you will feel so exhausted by the question you just let the whole thing go.
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People WANT to live in Matrix pods.
Oddly enough it's the same people who have been talking about their fear of pods and being forced to eat soy who have put themselves in literal isolation pods.
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I understand from the way it's put together I'm supposed to sympathize with the guy but I just watched thinking "wow what a huge asshole" the whole time.
And the ad is racist, but in that way where if you discuss it eventually someone will ask "but how is it racist? he just wants quiet?" and you will feel so exhausted by the question you just let the whole thing go.
@futurebird @katzenberger at least now you could directly compare it to some of those god-awful Loop earplugs ads which at least are just, like, random children you don't see making a noise in a supermarket. "Other cultures disgust me" is a TAKE.
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@futurebird @katzenberger at least now you could directly compare it to some of those god-awful Loop earplugs ads which at least are just, like, random children you don't see making a noise in a supermarket. "Other cultures disgust me" is a TAKE.
I haven't seen those ads. And for the record I love noise canceling headphones and earbuds.
Riding the subway without all the rumbles is amazing.
But, sometimes noise canceling can go too far. I often do a zoom call with my friend in Brooklyn to work on our writing. She has a lot of birds.
Zoom cuts out all of the birdsongs so I couldn't understand what she was talking about.
It also cuts out #picatheCat 's dynamic songs too. Robbing the world of her little voice.
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I understand from the way it's put together I'm supposed to sympathize with the guy but I just watched thinking "wow what a huge asshole" the whole time.
And the ad is racist, but in that way where if you discuss it eventually someone will ask "but how is it racist? he just wants quiet?" and you will feel so exhausted by the question you just let the whole thing go.
Most of the German comments under the video are along the lines of "this is like every average Western European city today", etc.
The car enables you to say "get off my land" wherever you choose to. Even abroad. Utter denial and distortion of reality, but on wheels.
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Most of the German comments under the video are along the lines of "this is like every average Western European city today", etc.
The car enables you to say "get off my land" wherever you choose to. Even abroad. Utter denial and distortion of reality, but on wheels.
"this is like every average Western European city today"
This is what real cities have always been since the dawn of time and if you don't like it? You don't really like cities ... or civilization.
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Are these people really so fragile they need to be packed in a padded box like brittle bone China just to drive to the store? Would a summer breeze knock you over? Would the shouts of children at the playground shatter your ears? Is the sunlight on a bright summer day too bright for your eyes?
Is life too much for you?
@futurebird I really like to shield myself from other humans, so I get that part, but I don't like to kill them. For shopping a cargo bike, sunglasses and hearing protection are fine. But for the transport of tools and family I like something bigger.
The funky thing is that it's virtually impossible to buy a vehicle that's doing what I want that isn't also designed to murder humans.
Why do even electric vehicles have the 'FU just die' fronts??
I blame the ads of the evil oligarchs for this.
