And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will
If you can get me a car I can pass out drunk in and it’ll still get me home and steal a policeman’s cap, I’ll ride it.
This literally happened to my great grandfather in the late 1920s. He bought a car, got distracted by the sight of a pretty lady, and drove into a swamp. He was yelling “whoa! whoa!” and pulling back on the steering wheel while the car went off the road. That is what he had done his whole life to stop a horse drawn buggy in an emergency. He told my grandfather, who was riding with him at the time, that he could have the car if he could get it out of the swamp. He said he was going back to his horse and buggy because a horse wouldn’t have run off the road into a swamp no matter what he looked at. He continued to use a horse and buggy for all of his transportation needs until he died in the mid 1960s. #FuckCars
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Like can you even imagine?
Yeah, living with [email protected] is really tough…
It doesn’t make sense to use automobiles. Imagine having to build out paved roads everywhere and also set up stations along these roads to refuel. Just completely impractical.
Right? It would be so much cheaper if we just used to the reinforcing steel to create thin tracks which we could put much more thermally efficient and eco-friendly wheels onto. In turn, we could carry exceptionally large loads of cargo or people over vast distances for a mere fraction of the cost (monetary) and a fraction of the cost (to the world) by creating long, highly aerodynamic vehicles capable of moving at ridiculously high speeds that would be uncontrollable for the average joe on the road.
Wait, haven’t I heard of something like this before?
You can’t negociate unprepared natural terrain at 120kph in any kind of machine or animal
What about a flying machine?
Then you are no longer negociating the terrain but the airspace
What about a salt flat?
It’s very difficult to maintain salt flat roads to everywhere. But yes, if we could take all of the economy, out of the environment and move it to a salt flat then we would not need asphalt paved roads. Also I suspect salt flat would deteriorate with heavy traffic.
God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you’ve ever played that.
Is that the anime lady with the robots?
No, that’s NieR: Automata
Uh. I’m gonna guess no. Is there an anime lady with robots?
I think so
The streets weren’t a lot better when they were horse focused
The physical design was somewhat similar but if you look at old footage from cities you’ll see that walking on the street was completely normal.
There didn’t yet exist this idea that we have to leave 80% of the street exclusively for cars.
The pavement is nice though. I suppose stone roads were around but that seems like way more work than to just tread on boards during the muddy seasons.
Fun fact, there are more domesticated horses now then there were at the hight of horses being used as transportation. I found this out when a reporter asked Jay Leno, an avid classic car collector, if he was upset about the CA law that makes only EVs legal to sell as new cars in CA by a certain date. He said he totally approved of the measure, and that there was nothing to worry about for classic car collectors, and citing horse ownership rates.
Hey I’ve been searching for solid stats about this. Are you sure? Because there used to be a lot of hotses!
You sure about that? I found this graph [Source] for population of farm based horses.
They only look at US based horses, but according to World Population Review the US are the top owners of horses, having 18% of them
That’s rape horse from Berserk
I didn’t clock it at first but yes exactly
Would you like to making colt BERSERKER
Horses are superior. When your car break down, you’ll starve to death. Horses, however… 😋
Horses, the original automatic braking
Self driving, too, provided you want to go where the horse wants to go.
“Urgh, to the bar again? Highly irregular… but oh well…”
I keep telling my wife the auto functions in my A3 are like having a horse. Including the odd “oh I’m gonna brake for no reason because I got spooked, now”.
I fucking love it!
Yup, in that they were very good and would fling ppl to thier death.
Equestrians are now free from menial labor and can focus on their Only Horse accounts.
Did you have to säy this shit
Cars are just a scam made up by Big Horse to sell more horsepower without actually selling any horses
I’d rather have a ultralight carbon fiber donkey carriage
Hello, I am an internal combustion car. I can’t go very fast unless the road is all paved, or very far unless you spend billions bringing fuel from thousand of kilometers to feed me. And if you drive me, people will think you’re NOT gay!
if you drive me, people will think you’re NOT gay!
Time for me to get a horse.
Mr. Hands enters the chat…
“Hahaha” laughs in invasive species
