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[+] -21 points 6 days ago* (6 children)

Congrats to all those who stuck overly low speed limits anywhere people dared to have fun, complained when ads showed a car doing more than driving sedately, and complained about spending money on fixing roads to a proper smooth standard. You've successfully moved the aspirational goals of most people's car ownership from handling and performance to being larger, higher up, and capable of adventure holidays.

Not that I expect any of these people to admit they've helped caused this problem, the efforts will probably move now to trying to also ban anyone from enjoying themselves on the dirt.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    "Dared to have fun" ???

    ITS A FUCKING CAR ON A ROAD, NOT A RIDE

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  • [+] -6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    That screeching is a great example of what helped shift people (and design/manufacturing budgets) away from building lighter and lower cars. No point prioritising those things which help handling when speed limits keep being set well below the safety limits of actual trucks (let alone cars), you can't advertise sporty handling, and roads become more and more potholed.

    Take away people's ideas of one form of enjoyment when driving and they'll find another - this has ended up with everyone having ideas of adventure instead and now you've got herds of nominally off road capable SUVs everywhere and many more four wheel drives than there used to be in urban areas.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Mate, if your response to "stop being a dickhead on the road" is to build or buy a massive ego soothing vehicle, then that is entirely on you and your toddler brain. Don't try and blame other people.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    your toddler brain

    Ah yes, because insulting people instead of admitting actions can cause effects is such a marker of a developed intelligence...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    @jimbob @Tau @Taleya I don't disagree that trucks weren't as popular when "sports cars" were fun and affordable and people could drive MGs and Austin-Healeys fast on curvy roads. It's interesting to ask whether safety measures like making roads straighter and installing speed cameras has discouraged car driving and therefore encouraged more dangerous wankpanzers.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago*

    @jimbob @Tau @Taleya lmaoo

    aside: one of my favourite sayings is “it’s not every Ranger driver, but it’s always a Ranger driver”

    I’ve always owned sports cars and similarly bemoan the over-policing and lowering of speed limits but the theme of “we used to do so much shit when we were younger” is common across generations - it’s nothing new. Similarly, lowering speed limits is an inevitable response to roads becoming more congested over time.

    I also own a big 4WD and it gets seen and respected much more on the road because everyone else is driving big vehicles and doesn’t think to look for little vehicles (or motorbike riders for that matter!). So yeah the road is a hostile space if “small and zippy” is your thing.

    Circling back to your comment, I have a totally different mindset when driving the sports car vs the 4WD. The sports car wants to do stuff. The 4WD wants to loaf along and take 10 seconds to reach the speed limit. The characteristics of the car do influence my mindset. I can only assume that Rangers want their owners to behave like a complete pillock.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago*

    have you been to a car show? peoole still have fun. The most fun I had in a car was my 2003 Nissan Sentra se-r spec-v. 6speed manual trans with a V6 engine. Holy fuck I loved that car. My 02 Jetta vr6 was pretty fun too, but that nissan yo.

    You wanna have fun just drive a manual, maybe not in the urban area (why have a car at all in an urban area), but.. idk. Go the speed limit, theyre not too low. Vehicles today are just made in a way you feel your speed less. So, drive a stick so you can actually feel your speed.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    You're a lot of what's wrong with modern societies. In not saying this as an insult either. You're outdated and like many of your like-minded brethren you drag us all down.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    You're a lot of what is wrong with the modern left. No capacity for nuance and if someone is perceived as failing any of the multitudes of purity tests then they're obviously terrible and couldn't possibly have a point.

    I've never even liked the proliferation of SUVs let alone the American utes, I'm just sick of the anti car crowd bewailing the current situation without having the intellectual honesty to admit they helped cause it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    It's always up to us to figure out what people like you mean. You're the one being dishonest here. The truth is you don't care about others safety or the environmental impact of automobiles. You like power and excitement and what you like supersedes everything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    You are getting things backwards.

    The reason trucks are popular is because they are more profitable to capitalists selling them compared to regular cars.

    So, naturally, capitalists poured a whole bunch of money into propaganda to make the SUV/truck a "cultural staple" and a gender-affirming purchase for men. Feeding on the worst, most individualistic and toxic aspects of our society to make even more profit selling murder machines.

    If the "anti-car" people you blame for this actually had any influence, there would be a reasonable compromise of requiring a commercial driver's license to operate these monstrosities.

    Or, if we really had our way, there would not be any cars in densely populated areas at all.

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