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Ha! Gears! I remember those old fossil-powered cars had more than one of those. Apparently in some you even had to choose which gear you wanted, rather than the car doing it for you.

Hopefully soon people will look at piston cars like IT folks look at manual deployment to dedicated servers.

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I think it’s closer to Linotypes vs Computers.

Sure they’re wasteful, but there’s an elegance to our complicated mechanical contraptions that isn’t captured with electric systems.

Also top speeds. Why would anyone would wanna go over 100mph? How is it even legal to produce cars like these? There's like 2 roads in one country where you'll ever use it.

Flashing your horsepower numbers just shows your lack of understanding of physics or childish pursuit for top speed. Unless you are a racer, torque is what matters much more.

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