{"id":1428,"date":"2012-07-19T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:50:42","slug":"real-design-is-useful-and-lost-battles-are-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/07\/real-design-is-useful-and-lost-battles-are-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Real design is useful and lost battles are lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Screw you, I love my Prius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My dad has one. He never gave a shit about cars (you wouldn\u2019t believe at how he throws his rusted tools or kick some stuff in the trunk of a brand new car) but after using French cars -yes, PSA- for decades and having problems with them, he thought he would try this new thing and save the world blabla.<\/p>\n

He just gave his old Prius to his brother and got a new one. He drives a lot, never had a single problem. Not once.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been pretty amazed at the design of this car. It\u2019s more than well thought. Every single detail. It doesn\u2019t look that good from the outside but the inside man. Absolutely nothing is left behind, everything has a purpose. That\u2019s beautiful design. The absolute elegance of gliding on electric power, not making any noise but a little electrical hiss? Priceless. Only this<\/a> felt more amazing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s painful to watch my country not getting it. The car business is massively supported by French taxes and we\u2019re hitting a wall but we still try to not look at the Prius, the Yaris or German cars that are so popular and of course sell much better than our own production. Our competition is better than us and three car manufacturers who can\u2019t export in a small country like France is more than overkill.<\/p>\n

But the worst part is that the industry today, the main industry today is not cars. We lost this one (and we\u2019ll probably lose the high speed train one, we never managed to sell our tech despite having a 30 years head start fuck me). The industry today and tomorrow is happening with software, services and all this high tech where we\u2019re getting absolutely fucked too, by a heavy competition and a terrible lack of support from the government compared to the disgusting amount of money injected in the car business lost battle for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Screw you, I love my Prius. My dad has one. He never gave a shit about cars (you wouldn\u2019t believe at how he throws his rusted tools or kick some stuff in the trunk of a brand new car) but after using French cars -yes, PSA- for decades and having problems with them, he thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}