Agreed. As a car guy, I genuinely hate how most roads are setup in the US. We could be doing so much better to keep drivers focused and safe, but they just copy-paste more giant grids into hellscapes because it doesn’t require any thought or creativity.
That’s actually another really good point: North American stroads have to be so fucking tedious for people who actually want to get something out of their cars. It’s the same shit everywhere so there’s nothing to see, you go just fast enough for your $100,000 car to be totaled if someone sneezes at you but not enough for it to be fun, you’re constantly in danger thanks to the poor design, and it’s you and a goddamn thousand people trying to get to Paunch Burger.
Imagine you had a high-end gaming PC and the only way to use it was to play cheap asset flips. I’m not saying we make roads into racetracks when the normies are gone; rather, I’m saying holy shit, the roads in well-designed urban places are so much more interesting and beautiful to drive in.
Whenever I see a really nice car stuck in traffic my heart breaks a little. It deserves better than creeping along because some idiot can’t zipper merge.
I rarely use cruise control and the closest thing to traction control I have is a limited slip differential. All analog dials and a basic-ass double DIN radio that just functions as Bluetooth for the rare call.
I want my input to go straight to the wheels and I would rather die by my own hand than let a company’s negligence do it for me.
Agreed. As a car guy, I genuinely hate how most roads are setup in the US. We could be doing so much better to keep drivers focused and safe, but they just copy-paste more giant grids into hellscapes because it doesn’t require any thought or creativity.
That’s actually another really good point: North American stroads have to be so fucking tedious for people who actually want to get something out of their cars. It’s the same shit everywhere so there’s nothing to see, you go just fast enough for your $100,000 car to be totaled if someone sneezes at you but not enough for it to be fun, you’re constantly in danger thanks to the poor design, and it’s you and a goddamn thousand people trying to get to Paunch Burger.
Imagine you had a high-end gaming PC and the only way to use it was to play cheap asset flips. I’m not saying we make roads into racetracks when the normies are gone; rather, I’m saying holy shit, the roads in well-designed urban places are so much more interesting and beautiful to drive in.
Whenever I see a really nice car stuck in traffic my heart breaks a little. It deserves better than creeping along because some idiot can’t zipper merge.
And the advances they make like lane keeping and auto cruise control just make people even less aware of what they’re doing.
They’re not building cars to be driven anymore. They’re building them to sit in traffic.
I rarely use cruise control and the closest thing to traction control I have is a limited slip differential. All analog dials and a basic-ass double DIN radio that just functions as Bluetooth for the rare call.
I want my input to go straight to the wheels and I would rather die by my own hand than let a company’s negligence do it for me.