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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:02:19 JST Rich Felker

   Current model cars are just so hideously ugly. Vaguely military look, like wannabe versions of something the fashy villain from cyberpunk fiction would drive.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:03:45 JST Rich Felker

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     Chrome branding replaced with black, on dark color body, in glossy but non metallic paint. Dark gray, green, or copies of that hideous Tesla dark blue. 🤮

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:05:39 JST Rich Felker

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     • jn

     @jn No, real cars. Model as in make/model/year.

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     jn (jn@boopsnoot.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:05:40 JST jn

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     @dalias model cars— the remote-controlled kind?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:07:12 JST Rich Felker

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     The cybertruck of course is this taken to the comical extreme, but they're all doing this.

     I don't think it's because it's what the public wants. It's indicative of how the entire decision making class is wrapped up in their stupid fashy fantasy that they're the good guys.

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     Wanja (muvlon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:10:36 JST Wanja

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     @dalias That's part of it, but there's also the much more mundane reason that car manufacturers all know they have to overhaul their visual design language every 5-10 years for planned obsolescence reasons. It's important to them that you can tell at a glance how old a car is regardless of how well it's maintained.

     And I think they ran out of sensible, non awful ways to design the exterior of a car.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 00:39:26 JST Rich Felker

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     • Wanja

     @muvlon I get that, but the aesthetics of the new visual design reflect decision makers' views of what "the future" looks like, and that's telling.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 02:08:33 JST Paul Shryock

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     @dalias but car manufacturers are already peak shitty, as they harvest and steal so much personal data and sell it to third parties. That's practically their main business: selling stolen consumer data to third parties.