The top car is a 1956 Astra-Gnome concept car (never actually manufactured for us). Photo credit / more info: https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1956-astra-gnome
The bottom vehicle is a dumpster sold by a wanker.
Reasonable middle ground:
It’s a diving sad day when bladerunner looks like a reasonable middle ground.
Fuck you, autocorrect.
This car will definitely be useful for diving
A seperate bubble compartment for the kids, and offroad tires. I mean, I’d buy it. Though $82,000 is still a steep price for a car, even now.
I don’t get it, because I can’t see enough of the car behind that dumpster to understand the point
Um… what is that?
Still waiting for a KDE steering wheel
A steering wheel?
Keering Keel
A Gnoming wheel?
It’s the car Bladerunner would drive. You know, Bladerunner, from Bladerunner. By Ridleyscott.
You know, the original book isn’t even called “Bladerunner.” It’s called “Do Bladerunners dream of running blades?” Ridleyscott changed it based on some Rutgers Howie improv.
THAT’S NOT THE CHARACTER’S NAME YOU WEIRDO TECH BRO!
Yes I am mad at Elon. Blade Runner: The Final Cut is my favorite movie.
Next you’re gonna tell me he doesn’t even run blades.
I’m waaaaayyyyy too orange-pilled for this. Both images are wrong.
FYI this is also slang for “Bitcoin enthusiast”.
That one in the top looks like it was created in Spore
The funny thing is that even if cybertruck wasn’t absolutely demolished it still wasn’t even close to astra-gnome
Are you suggesting I picked the worst image of a cybertruck I could find? (I did. :) )
i think i had that shaver
I’m ok not having the bubble boat car. Of course, having better, more affordable EV options here in the US would be nice. But a lot of people don’t like EVs. Not sure why, but if you just gotta have your ICE vehicle, run it on biofuels that are at least renewable. Some of y’all are ridiculous: “Electric car? Biofuels? No, I HAVE to have an internal combustion engine, and it HAS to run on FOSSIL FUELS only!” Why?
Big problem with biofuels currently is production. We haven’t figured out how to grow enough food AND biomass for fuel.
And a bunch of the food is more or less fossil fuels turned into corn. Solar+wind+battery with some nuclear power mixed in is probably the way, but long haul transport might be able to work on bio if we could get out of the growth only economy of late stage of capitalism.
I sometimes imagine a world where we make things that last, or can be repaired and our population has leveled off so that we can stop making the line go up and just keep it at some sustainable level. A lot of thing could change and keep us all happy.
Maybe my kid’s grandkids will see it.
Then get an EV. Or drive less, or just pay the premium for biofuels, if you absolutely MUST have an internal combustion engine.
We have to stop using fossil fuels. We just have to. And it’s not just about the climate, although that should be reason enough. Fossil fuels are non-renewable. Once fossil fuel reserves are depleted, they cannot be replenished on human timescales. And I know, I know, people will swear up and down that we’re not in danger of fossil fuel reserves becoming depleted anytime soon, but it’s inevitable, even if it isn’t imminent.
Plus, we’ve already depleted most of the reserves that were relatively cheap and easy to extract, so what’s left is only going to get more difficult and more expensive to get out of the ground. Oil extraction would have peaked a long time ago if we didn’t start using more expensive extraction methods like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which comes with its own ecological issues.
I ride a bike and take public transit.
Good! Whatever people can do to stop using fossil fuels is what needs to happen.
Thundercugarfalconbird
I understand, and it’s wonderful you don’t care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation
I care! I care plenty! I just don’t know how to make them stop!
I know it’s a different show, but… I dunno. Suck a butt or something. At least it’s the same car
I mean, they both look like they would obliterate any unfortunate pedestrian they’d come in contact with… But the top one moreso. It’d cut them in half.
As oppsed to the deer thay got cut in half by a wank panzer?
I’m just saying the top one would do even more damage. They’re both terrible 🙈
This just shows that personal automobiles are bullshit. A bicycle has not changed fundamentally in over 100 years, meanwhile cars are constantly changing for no discernable reason.
The bicycle has changed quite a bit in the last hundred years. The modern derailleur was introduced in the 1930s. Moving the shifters to the handles was more recent. Clipless pedals and disc brakes were both introduced in the 70s. Carbon fiber frames reduced their weight substantially.
Their basic shape hasn’t changed much, but everything else has.
The internal combustion engine is fundamentally unchanged since invention, so is the electric motor, both well over 100 years old too.
And personal automobiles are still fundamentally the same as a horse driven carriage: four wheels with a box on top for seating and sheltering from weather, and a driver in front for steering. The first mechanically driven carriage even predates the bike by more than 200 years.
They are the same picture.
