After becoming a regular daily errands-and-commuting cyclist in NYC for a few years now, whenever I get in my car to go somewhere ...
... the sheer weight and size of the metal around me seems positively *sci fi*
I mean, cars?
They're basically MECHAS. Right?
A human inside
controlling this weirdly big-ass piece of exoskeletal steel
@clive When I cycle I treat other cars as if they are herd animals. Big heavy dumb things that usually don't even notice I'm there, and if they do notice me it may not go well for me. Tempremental and quick to anger, they are also unpredictable when they get spooked. I never assume they will do the sensible thing.
(I tend to think of them as American Bison.)
That's only tangentially related to what you said, I guess. Maybe they are mechas that decrease the human driver's IQ by 50 points?
Bison are a good way to think of it
Big ol heavy metal bison, don't wanna piss 'em off, and with all that long hair hanging in their eyes they may not see you
Clive Thompson
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