The Explorer is not the deadliest weapon offered in the Ford arsenal. With a curb weight of 5,000 pounds, it generates 350 horsepower and has a top speed of 150 miles per hour — fast, but not Ford’s top-performing product in the “built to kill” category.
For more serious anti-personnel use, most Americans prefer the F-150 — also the top-selling weapon in the USA.

This beast cranks 450 horsepower, a top speed of 165 mph with a weight of nearly 6,000 pounds, and, for many models, a bone-crushing grill height of nearly 5 feet.
Of course, both weapons boast similar ammunition gauges, with the Explorer burning a gallon of carbon for 26 miles and the F-150 topping out at 25.

Ford accordingly assures its customers that any humans they miss on the street will be wiped out later by climate change.
Future models are expected to add additional kill features in the front impact zones. Stay tuned! It’s an exciting time to be a hunter — er, driver in America. consumerreports.org/car-safety/the…

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24 Nov
Them: "There's no more room here for housing, people have to go somewhere else"

Us: [points to 85-acre freeway interchange built with tax dollars on land stolen from Black/brown owners and given to car industry]

Them: "That's, uh, ours, we ... uh, we stole it fair and square."
Us: “Pardon us while we steal it the fuck back.”
Like, here’s tens of thousands of acres of free public land that also requires hundreds of billions of dollars in annual tax revenues for maintenance.

Remove the cars, put up public housing, have BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LEFTOVER
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24 Nov
I remember that time a pedestrian followed another pedestrian home for standing on the wrong side of the escalator and also shot them to death, this is just a part of being human that can't be avoided
I was once cut off by a cyclist at a stop sign and found them via face recognition technology, went to their house, and poured rat poison in their main water supply. as one does
It's pretty obvious that most Americans have no idea what is being done to their brain chemistry by the hormones released during the physical experience of horsepower, rapid acceleration, and rapid deceleration.

But yes, it turns you into a violent psychopath.
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23 Nov
"you'll never get Americans out of their cars" perhaps, but might not be necessary, cars are well on their way to driving Americans out of their minds
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Given the direction of car industry, it would be useful IMO to develop a suite of technologies pedestrians & other uncarred humans can use to disable/otherwise neutralize the deadly weaponry they’re building into products.

For example, a Skydio follow-drone w/ grenade launcher.
If a violent drivist — whether robotic or human — gets within a defined perimeter, the drone sends a warning text message: “You have 1 second to cease operations” and then fires a grenade to protect its owner.

Other drone solutions could include EM pulse guns to shut down motors
or, for crowd protection, larger drones mounted with detachable spike strips.

I’m resistant to the idea of pedestrians arming ourselves for defense, only because, just as most drivers are not qualified to drive, most walkers can’t and likely don’t want to wield a weapon.
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The gravel bike is newer though, $1400 in 2007, so, I probably won’t be able to replace it til ‘35 soonest

how much is a car? can’t be more than $2000 right?
that said, the road bike ($1200, 2003) is probably going to be retired in the next 5 year so, checkmate me i guess
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