"The Dog That Killed Hoonage"

Has this been posted before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCpXVT99As&feature=player_embedded

Nothing new or shocking, just a neat little video that nicely captures the GRM spirit, or at least part of it.

Wow that was great!

The gokart in the snow looked like fun...

Ties in nicely with the Ferrari transmission thread.

That was the most accurate article ever written about my personal opinions on modern motoring

Good little production for sure, shifter karts on ice? Yet another reason I need to buy a go-kart.

yea.. carts on ice looks like serious fun :)

Let's be honest. There are people out there who need traction control and other nanny devices. Sadly, they are in the majority.

I read an article with the same title a few days back on Jalopnik but I didn't know there was a video too.

In reply to DoctorBlade:

According to Darwin, their numbers would decline...

modernbeat wrote: In reply to DoctorBlade: According to Darwin, their numbers would decline...

But according to Idiocracy, they would also procreate faster. Don't think Darwin can keep up.

aussiesmg wrote: That was the most accurate article ever written about my personal opinions on modern motoring

+1

autoxrs wrote:

modernbeat wrote: In reply to DoctorBlade:According to Darwin, their numbers would decline...

But according to Idiocracy, they would also procreate faster. Don't think Darwin can keep up.

I heard on the radio this morning someone talking about this. His view was that Darwin theory used keep this in check but now days with lawyers, safety laws and such doesn't let Darwin take clear out the gene pool so they stay around to multiply and we get more idiocracy that stems more "nanny" laws and devices steming more idiocracy. Never ending battle.

wlkelley3 wrote:

autoxrs wrote:

modernbeat wrote: In reply to DoctorBlade:According to Darwin, their numbers would decline...

But according to Idiocracy, they would also procreate faster. Don't think Darwin can keep up.

I heard on the radio this morning someone talking about this. His view was that Darwin theory used keep this in check but now days with lawyers, safety laws and such doesn't let Darwin take clear out the gene pool so they stay around to multiply and we get more idiocracy that stems more "nanny" laws and devices steming more idiocracy. Never ending battle.

+10

makes me want to DD a miata year round where I am, Just need a hard top for winter

neon4891 wrote: makes me want to DD a miata year round where I am, Just need a hard top for winter

I'm doing that right now... Once I accepted the fact that the rockers and quarter-panels on my '92 were beyond saving, I decided to throw on a set of snows and have some fun.

Haven't driven my "winter" car since. With the snow-tires and hardtop, it's kinda like skiing with a heater!!!

Everyone at work thinks I'm nuts... They all parked their v-6 Chargers and the like, (with traction-control, btw) to drive Wranglers and other assorted 4x4's.

I feel like this guy was in my head. Every year I dislike the Detroit auto show more and more, because the cars get less and less interesting to me. I went to school to be a mechanical engineer. I'm on the brink of graduating, and have had numerous internships in the industry, but am so jaded by the fact that cars of today, as with everything in life, must be designed for the least common denominator of society.

wlkelley3, a former coworker of mine had a sign in her cubicle that said, "If we make it idiot-proof, they'll just make a better idiot." And the guy you heard on the radio was right on the money. These lawyers feed off that better idiot that hired them for a lawsuit where lack of common sense hurt them. New cars simply aren't fun any more, because fun might get someone hurt. How much longer till the world of Equilibrium becomes real and the only flavor anything comes in is vanilla?

I've had the following quote in my facebook profile for at least a couple years now. I have no clue who to give credit to or I would.

But the distressing thing about modern cars isn’t just the homogeneity and bulbousness of their design; it’s the fact that they’re all so incredibly smooth to drive, with comfortable, elevated driving positions, air-con, sat-nav, pollen filters, reverse sensors, heated seats, sonic damping to isolate the passengers and driver from road, traffic, and engine noise. All these gadgets combine to divorce you from the process of driving, separate you from the car and from the road and from the environment outside. Driving a car isn’t driving a car anymore; it’s sitting in a chair and moving.

aussiesmg wrote: That was the most accurate article ever written about my personal opinions on modern motoring

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000

That was so good I am sending a link to everyone.

I am another that agrees completely with the sentiment in the video, A-fracking-men.

People have survived for a long time without the nanny devices, it is the incorperation of these nanny devices that is making peoples skill levels and intelligence levels diminish. I'm not just talking about cars either. These days everything is ending up about instant gratification and that leads to accomplishing without as much effort in the past. This returns a behavior wherein people are less inclined to put in effort into anything as before. Time is spent in self gratification instead of self improvement.

Before you spent time becoming a better driver because you needed to in order to AVOID darwin, now the nannys have your back so much that you no longer have darwin driving you to improve yourself.

But, as I said, its not just driving. Information seeking, hello internet. Noone is driven anymore to spend the time to actually accomplish something. It used to be that you would work to find something to entertain yourself with a side product of self improvement. Kids would build a fort or go explore in days gone by, now they veg in front of the tv/internet/video game. The comparison is that the former had a side product of self improvement and the latter is empty self gratification.

as technology gets better the amount of effort and self improvement goes down in the average populous.

The information and knowledge exists, but the drive is dieing.