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PeriodicallyPedantic
joined 2 years ago
Well... Yeah. Duh.
That's what it's for
But trying to extrapolate from nonsense movies is the fun part!
Let me rephrase, I'm not trying to make the world of cars more realistic, I'm trying to imagine "what if we were as relatively fragile as cars are". What if our normal every day activities like walking were as risky to us as driving is to a car.
Hmmm... You're right that cars don't crash as much as people trip. But they still crash a lot
And while if a cheetah trips while running it's fine, if a car crashes at its top speed, it will completely come apart. Heck, if a car crashes at highway speed, it's typically still absolutely destroyed, and highway speed is only gonna be like 1/2 or 1/3 its top speed, so that's the equivalent of jogging.
A big part of this is the fragility of cars vs their speed.
That deleted scene is... It's... Well that raises so many questions about their universe. I'm just gonna ignore that part lol.
Specifically just speed, I suppose.
Not any of the other perception/durability powers that typically come with it.
And not crazy flash-like super speed, just the speed of a car.
All these eggs and beans, I won't be able to fit into my jeans
Same, it was sad but I'm not gonna use the all anymore due to that decision.
It's been a while, I admit.
But the premise is simple enough that you don't really need to remember much of it
That's what I'm saying!
What would society even look like if even a light jog was such speeds that tripping would result in a gruesome death? Bumping into someone would tear off limbs? In the movie they're so casual about it.
I feel like they're different orders of magnitude. Like it's one thing to enjoy watching people do risky things, and it's another to enjoy watching something where at least one person is going gruesomely die in front of you during the event.
Like... During the Bad Times of NASCAR, a few people would get seriously injured or die in a season, and it caused a huge commotion where they introduced new safety measures (eventually).
But cars were smashed and torn apart nearly every race.
It's be like if in a typical game of football, there was greater than 50/50 odds that someone would get drawn, quartered, and disemboweled on the field during the match.
But that's not really the part I was focused on, that was an afterthought.
The real focus was imagine if people jogged at such speeds that tripping would result in gruesome death. What would society even look like?
"that's so sad"
But realistically probably nothing, someone like that isn't going to care enough about what you think to be affected by what you say.