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Comment by cheschire | Hacker News Reader

Race cars are barren of safety and security features, creature comforts, and even frequently missing windows.

But boy are they sure fast.

But I wouldn’t daily drive one.

Nitpick I know but race cars in well run series actually have quite good safety - just not in the same way because the environment and expectations are different. You don't need/want a reversing camera or parking beeps and boops...

I think part of MS issue is that they keep bundling and pushing "crap useful to some minority" (as well as unwanted ads and features too) by default into ostensibly "your" system and making it hard to focus on what you want it for.

If you want it to focus on gaming performance... well it's more about arcane tweaks rather than having a turn off the shit button.

Maybe the coming Win10 EoL will see a few % points jump to Bazzite or some other linux gaming-focussed distro.

Considering a common use for Windows these days is Steam Launcher, performance is kind of a big deal, actually. Literally the only thing I use my desktop for is to play games, so yes, performance is pretty much the only thing I care about with it.

Race cars have heaps of safety systems not present in road cars. They don't have ABS and traction control because they don't actually increase safety on track with a professional driver. SRS airbags also offer no additional safety when in a 6 point harness and wearing a helmet and neck brace.

Race cars have drastically more safety features than road cars. Your road car doesn't tether your helmet to your headrest to protect your neck and doesn't have a roll cage, for starters.

Road cars also don't have built-in fire extinguishers, tethers to keep wheels attached to the car in the event of a catastrophic failure of the suspension, five point harnesses for the drivers, escape hatches in the roof or no roof at all but a halo and bar in front of the driver to protect them in the event the car hits something that could decapitate the driver, break away body panels and impact absorbent foam that dissipates energy in 200+ MPH crashes generally allowing drivers to walk away from impacts that would kill occupants of road-going vehicles...

I could go on, but yeah, not sure how OP thinks that race cars aren't as safe as road cars.

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