{"id":4699,"date":"2023-09-18T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2023-09-18T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T01:47:08","slug":"speaking-of-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2023\/09\/speaking-of-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m all over my architecture books going through time and there\u2019s something funny about those pictures: the cars around are always a decade or more off. 80s architecture has 70s cars around. 90s architecture has 80s cars around. Etc.<\/p>\n<p>I think that I only now see cars that are truly 2000s and beyond. They\u2019re also all hybrid or electric meaning that when I see them they\u2019re completely silent, rolling around, making a turn. It\u2019s a pretty hot first impression. And a break from the smelly past.<\/p>\n<p>(shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carpixel.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Car Pixel<\/a> for the pictures!)<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/fa5440aad9414b0168e614c4e9ff1883.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h5>Hyundai Ioniq 5<\/h5>\n<p>Those sharp lines and overall aesthetic would have been fabulous on 2002-2003 roads, y\u2019all. In the 00s architecture leaned towards polygons a lot, thanks to technology (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_fiber_reinforced_concrete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GFRC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Building_information_modeling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIM<\/a>) providing the possibility. It kind of leaped over to car design in the 2010s, maybe thanks to technical advances as well (cheaper to create edges these days?).<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/e8f536ed0b880acb6b7748a34aa1ebba.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h5>Polestar 2<\/h5>\n<p>I see them around here and they look slick yet humble and that\u2019s kind of a tour de force design-wise. Love it.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/d5059f7fbd22a7395b37f71300bc4582.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h5>Lucid Air<\/h5>\n<p>Rare, but I see some. They look gorgeous. They\u2019re fat and plump and beautiful on our large roads, no doubt. I cannot imagine driving one (I picture that you don\u2019t hear anything inside and I like to hear stuff in a car when I drive, pre-2000 born sorry), but being in the back floating in the middle of a highway in the desert? Yeah. I can see that.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/e27c26cb09c412146fb1d3d7dc6e9d08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h5>Toyota 2023 Prius<\/h5>\n<p>Someone at Toyota snapped over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/market\/cool_prius_nobody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joke<\/a>. This version is a thing of beauty. Like, it should be illegal that a basic car like that looks that good. As of September 2023, everyone turns their heads when one rolls down a street. Toyota must have orders until 2039. The Wii of cars: everyone wants one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all that tech in a vehicle exposed to hacking, malware, surveillance, overriding, ransomware? I need a phone to use my car now? Wrong turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m all over my architecture books going through time and there\u2019s something funny about those pictures: the cars around are always a decade or more off. 80s architecture has 70s cars around. 90s architecture has 80s cars around. Etc. I think that I only now see cars that are truly 2000s and beyond. They\u2019re also [&hellip;]<\/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\/4699"}],"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=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}