Just wait until the author learns about CVTs.
That’s so dumb. Politician?
More Speeds = More Faster!
“journalism”
The only logical argument I can see within the scope of this is that I seriously don’t think your average dogshit driver should own a 6000 pound electric vehicle that can go from 0-60 faster than a lamborghini
I really do think we should have auto manufacturers place limitations on these cars that could be removed at the shop if an owner so chooses
there is absolutely no reason someone’s grocery getter should be that fast in a world where dumbasses can’t even control a 200hp car
It’s the exact same argument. “Why would anyone need a 30-round magazine?” There isn’t a reason for someone to have one outside of hog hunting, but that shouldn’t stop people from being able to have them. Just because I don’t need something doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to have it
My bicycle needed a 10-speed transmission due to my massive leg power.
Written by the same d-bag that wrote some crap article about Martin Short being a hack. Dan Kois. Doesn’t understand comedy and sure as hell doesn’t understand cars. Slate sucks.
Tell me you don’t know anything about cars without telling me you don’t know anything about cars.
Here is something to mull over: this guy is getting paid to write articles that a high school teacher would rip apart and throw in the face of the student who turns it in.
*thinks about my car having an 8 speed. **also laughs because 180hp is clearly alot to this Muppet.
Lower powered cars have a higher benefit to the higher number of gear choices compared to high hp/tq cars. This Muppet doesn’t understand basic car knowledge, and the fact we have 8-10 speed and cvts for maximizing performance and efficiency.
Case on point, my 180 hp car is every bit as quick as my previous '19 Fusion which had an advantage of 50-65 hp depending on octane, and 80 ft-lb, with a 350 pound weight and 2 gear penalty.
We don’t need speed assist. And it has an 8 speed for efficiency and performance.
NASCAR Cup Series cars were at 900 horsepower with a 4 speed for a couple years. Even now, they’re at 670 with a 5 speed. Number of gears ≠ power
Ironically it’s powerful cars that can probably get away with fewer speeds without having as much of an efficiency hit.
While were all laughing at these people, we must take them seriously. Ignorance spreads very fast. Especially when amplified by rags like Slate. People who think theyre smart will begin asking this question rhetorically.
Once you read a “journalists’/writer’s” articles about something you know a little about, through say a hobby, you realize how ignorant and off the mark they often are. Now make the topic of the article about something you really know about and you might get depressed about the stupid things they say.
Ignorance spreads very fast
almost like it’s got an 8 speed transmission
Imagine how fast it would spread with a 10-speed!
Or… gasp …A CVT?!
It’s the same thing as the people who know very little about firearms, deciding the laws around them. It’s funny, but the influence a lot of people have is really concerning
You don’t have to know a lot about guns to know that you don’t want to get shot.
You’re completely right there. But that ends when one who doesn’t know what they are talking about outright lies to get others scared & worked up about something they don’t understand.l
You don’t have to know a lot about cars to know that no one needs a high capacity assault 8 speed transmission.
Even worse, most of them are fully automatic.
I wonder if bolt action nerds were the same way about le manuelle
But does it have a suspension thing that goes up?
No, but it does have a 800 cylinder horsepower motor.
Wow, that sounds like it would be as heavy as 10 Boxes you would move with.
So this person complains about fast cars being made to make money in an article turning the death of two into anti-car statements meant to get clicks to… make money? This is while also admiring the carnage and not placing any true blame on the driver, who isn’t the victim (as theyd like to infer) but rather the irresponsible individual who suffered the consequences of being irresponsible.
Im not conservative, but fuck this nanny state advocacy.
TBH, nanny state doesn’t really fall on one side or the other so no worries there. Various people on all sides of the spectrum advocate for their own version of a nanny state.
Jesus, someone is bringing gun-legislation levels of stupidity to car regulations.
German cars can’t be imported with rear spoilers or alloy wheels, those performance parts are just too dangerous, but once they’re imported BMW can pay a shop to add them on before being sold and that’s perfectly ok.
Italian cars can’t be imported directly and must sit in a musty English garage for 20 years before being allowed in.
2 door roadsters are sporty so to keep people safe we won’t allow them to have over 200 hp, but for whatever reason we won’t consider a 5 door hatch a sports car and they can have whatever engine you feel like.
Automatic transmission shift gears too fast so they can’t have wheel widths larger than 8”, hand brake levers, aftermarket gauges, be painted the color red, or have rear parachutes because we all know how much people just love to put parachutes on their cars. Manual transmission cars can do whatever they want.
Banning silencers is on the same tier as banning car mufflers. It’s literally just safety equipment, but legislators watch too many movies.
RIP Hearing Protection Act(s), in all their varied forms and merits - that one time(s) a bill title actually coincided with what it set out to accomplish.
There’s always hope though. Randomly checked legality of switchblades in my state a few years back only to learn they’d recently been legalized again! (as a fully legal ‘flipper’ currently in my pocket could probably be opened faster, & was never outlawed)
Still don’t have one myself, but it’s a good example of dumbass legislation.
my state legalized switchblades but not gravity knives, which are definitely slower except on maybe jupiter
ugh - bizarre
A lot of states allow switchblades but only if they are comically short.
At least arizona overturned their law banning nunchucks (not a joke).
Ah yes, nunchucks. The bane of law abiding citizens & top choice of criminals everywhere.
Car enthusiasts: “they don’t know anything about what they’re trying to ban!”
Gun owners: “First time?”
Another thing they have in common: the regulation never actually shows up, the fear if anything just stokes the market.