• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I really wish car companies would actually release production models that looked like the concept models. These look so goddamn cool.

    I don’t need to see out the back if I’m staring into the future!

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      2 years ago

      No you don’t. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn’t want them.

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      2 years ago

      I also think they’re cool. I also wouldn’t own one because of how incredibly out of place they look.

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        2 years ago

        Hell yeah, I owned a PT for about a year, that car was fun to drive. Never been able to hold the gas pedal to the floor for as long in any other car!

  • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    No real specs are being released, but Honda says these future EVs will be both partially and fully autonomous, depending on the configuration.

    Doubt

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Marginally nicer looking than the cybertruck. I would steal this in GTA if I played GTA and it was a car in the game

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    2 years ago

    Don’t worry, folks. Most of the time, concept cars exist solely to look interesting and get people talking, especially when it’s from a major manufacturer. I’m sure the production model will be much more boring appealing to the masses.

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    2 years ago

    Someone at Honda looked at the failure that is the Cybertruck and was like “Huh… not bad”

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      2 years ago

      The difference here is that the car in the picture is a concept car, which very very rarely ever makes it to production as is. The Cybertruck is the exception to that rule…

  • AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Just make a regular looking car that happens to be EV. I don’t know why manufacturers have to make the dumbest looking vehicles for their EV cars.

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      2 years ago

      Lots of visibility with such a small front end, but it’ll make head-on collisions scarier, also, imo. Looks aerodynamic, too. I’d have no issue rocking this for my daily.

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      2 years ago

      Styles are changing, I guess they’re focus grouping it and people want cars from blade runner. No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.

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      2 years ago

      I dunno. If there is a culture that I think has innovated great ideas into reality it’s the Japanese car companies. They took what we wanted in the 80s and made it happen. Then kept doing it.

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    2 years ago

    I really hope that back end is the charging port and you get to park you car like one of those toy cars that you you ‘charge’ up and fire across the room.

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    Why do these concept vehicles always have to look this dumb and impractical? Why can’t we get EU sized personal electric vehicles? Think Fiat 500 or the Renault Twingo?

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        Also because of the way emissions standards are enforced in the US, SUVs and trucks are held to lower emissions standards making them more profitable. They receive the heaviest marketing and therefore sell the most.

        Holy fuck, do I love capitalism.

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    Continuing the trend of completely butchering the rear end of the vehicle as is the case with many other modern cars aswell.

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      Seems they looked at nature for inspiration and baboon rear-ends were their take-away.