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soopahfly:
You know what?  I welcome the arrival of the electric age.
I'm a through and through petrol head, I have 5 cars, 2 motorbikes, I've owned stuff with the engines that everyone wants, BOA's VQ's, RB's, K20's and 2J.

if it means the end of tromboning DSG gearboxes and everyone and their mum having pop bang tunes on pointless cars, I'm all for it.
Also, it means car companies can get creative with the look of the cars.

Look at the new Citroen Ami for example.
Also, I think one of the designers at Hyundai managed to find a brick of cocaine and has been sharing it around the office.  And I'm here for that.

Look at the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and the new "Vision 74" Concept.  Yeah, you may think it's just a prototype, but take a look at the Hyundai 45 and the Prophecy.  Those are now real cars.

Battery technology needs to change, and it is doing.  We need less reliance on rare earth minerals and a way to charge them quicker.

Motorbikes on the other hand are going to be a difficult sell.  People don't use them in the same way as cars.  Are they going to fit layby's with tens of chargers?  Every cafe/greasy spoon etc?  As that's what we do with them.  We'll do 100-200 miles a day, at high revs and stop for tea, bit of cake, fish and chips etc at the sea side. 

And so what if people are inattentive when they drive. I'm not saying you are M3ta, but there is no doubt that there are some people out there don't have the foggiest idea what they're doing behind the wheel, and they don't care.
Why not let the car take over for those people who's phone is permanently glued to their hands.

knighty:
also pro electric and pro self driving

haven't driven any self driving or lane assist etc. so can't really comment on those

eventually self driving should be awesome... the car looking in every direction all the time, looking through things etc. (or however that sh*t works)

there's a lot of mongs out there who have no idea what they're doing


was in the back of a car and the woman driving (gf of a guy at work, he was in the front) she was bitching like crazy about the lane assist trying to stop her changing lanes... told her she needs to use indicators more but it just didn't sink in :-s

soopahfly:
It's something a lot of people don't enjoy, or see as only a necessity and have no desire to get better at it.
Driving standards as a whole have gone down dramatically. There's too many distractions and people don't know how to be bored, or concentrate.

Clock'd 0Ne:
Couldn't agree with both of you more. A female colleague I used to work with admitted she actively switches off when driving, finds it boring and just listens to the radio, sings along, etc. :o

Motorbikes are an interesting one because I would have thought that the power to weight ratio would make electric bikes a fantastic proposition but then its the polar opposite experience you want as a petrolhead I suppose. For the same reason while I love tootling around lazily in my Leaf I would be more than happy to have something like a Boxster as weekend fun motor still.

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