Devs Way of Life

Sports cars are designed to make people happy. With street cars, numbers don’t paint the full picture. Every trip up a mountain or run to the store isn’t a full-tilt qualifier. The satisfying, tactile ha! of a manual downshift can’t be measured. And if you think speed through automation always equals a good time, ask an airline captain how thrilling it is to drone around on 550-mph autopilot.

Is there a place for the machine to do things for you? Of course. Improve the experience without removing the driver from it, we’ll beat a path to your door. (Magnetorheological shocks, torque-vectoring differentials, the list is endless.) But that kind of focus is rare. For the typical engineer, entertainment is byproduct, not primary goal.

This wasn’t a drawback for years, when cars were simpler and more involving by nature. But we crossed a tipping point a while back. Speed limits aren’t going up. Roads aren’t getting wider or less congested. And chiefly, dull fast cars are now common. In the era of the 5.8-second Camry and hot hatches that make a 911 Turbo feel like a numb Buick, we don’t need to worry about the stopwatch. We need to worry about sensation.

The Connected World of 2025

A recent report from Pew Research Centre looked at the future of the Internet by the year 2025. Over 1,800 experts weighed in on the survey with the majority agreeing that by 2025 the Internet will be so entrenched in our everyday lives and environments that it will become “like electricity”. 

Mark Zuckerberg vs. an  Average 30-Year-Old Man

Rise.

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