Went to the Jeep/4x4 rally today. I've never seen that much wanton damage done to anything in any one place, legally. It was amazing. 4x4 people have developed a language that is similar to English, but is heavily influenced by gear ratios. The only event we really got to watch was the rock crawl, which is really cool, but I feel like sports should have their basis in some sort of utilitarian purpose. I guess the purpose of the rock crawl is to help figure out ways to get trucks out of bad situations, and how to engineer things to be tougher. Here's the thing, though: I could crawl over those rocks faster than those trucks can, so what's the point? I say that if a car can't traverse a terrain at a speed of 15mph for an extended amount of time, it isn't worth taking a car there at all. SO, design those fuckin' four-bys tougher and crazier, boys.
Also, no electric entrants. What gives? Four electric motors located one at each wheel would eliminate the entire drive-train, giving a vehicle unlimited ground clearance.
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