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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?
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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?
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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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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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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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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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…
@GustavinoBevilacqua @futurebird
Most of them have a 360 degree camera system now.
It's got cameras in the grill, tailgate and side-view mirrors and shows everything around the vehicle. Especially handy for connecting trailers.
The system turns on automatically once put into reverse, but there's also a button to turn it on as needed at low speed.
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@zeppe @zero no, quello che hai linkato tu è
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Driver
il mio è
https://archive.org/details/STUNTS_VGA
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@zeppe @zero io giocavo con https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)
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@ZekuZelalem thanks for that honesty, I've got a hunch that they've been stoking the fires for this for a long time.
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@MamaLake I'll be frank with you, I'm not as informed on Meta enabling the coup. I am aware of Meta's role however, in amplifying hate speech and facilitating genocide of the Rohingya in 🇲🇲years earlier
