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Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities
Ponca City, We love you writes "A study has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front ends of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars. Forty study participants assessed cars based on a system known as geometric morphometrics by viewing high-resolution, 3D computer reconstructions and printed images of 38 actual 2004-06 car models and rating each model on 19 traits such as dominance, maturity, gender, and friendliness, and if they liked the car. Study participants liked best the cars scoring high in the so-called power traits — the most mature, masculine, arrogant, and angry-looking ones. Researchers theorized that over evolutionary time, humans have developed a selective sensitivity to features in the human face that convey information on sex, age, emotions, and intentions. The lead researcher explained, 'Seeing too many faces, even in mountains or toast, has little or no penalty, but missing or misinterpreting the face of a predator or attacker could be fatal.'"
Ok... so the real title should be: "Humans associate objects with potential enemies". How is it that scientists get funding for BS research like this when they could be doing something cool like getting me my flying car already.
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
If you pick a car that looks like a douchebag outside the driver inside is probably a douchebag as well, sigh :( Why Americans see the angry aggressive asshole stance as "good" is beyond me, it certainly isn't winning us many friends in the world. Welcome to Assholetopia this is your new HUMVEE, sigh!
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
The word epic used to mean something and it wasn't two sissies fighting on the internet, newfag.
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Epic response!
You're trying to justify to yourself and everyone else that dangerous driving is ok. It's not. No matter what reasons you come up with. Your needs trump anyone else's and fuck the world, right?
How many accidents and deaths does it take to show people that speeding and driving dangerously on public roadways is deadly? Either to themselves or others? If you want to speed, please do it on a track or drag strip. They are equipped with impact absorbing crash barriers, trained emergency personnel are on standby and they are the perfect environment for taking you and your car to the limit. A good reason for that is tunnel vision. The faster you go, the more tunnel vision you get, so you'll be less likely to notice things on your periphery. That big, long, open stretch of highway looks like lots of fun until that deer you didn't see in the ditch decides to commit suicide by car. Deer vs. 100mph car... there is no winner. You both lose. If you actually get through it intact, have fun explaining to your insurance company and the cops what happened. Don't lie, they've seen it all before. They'll catch you and not only will you be out a car, but you'll be facing an insurance fraud charge.
Life's too short... especially the very last moment before you wrap your fancy sports car around a telephone pole because you were driving like a dumbass, becoming yet another sad statistic and an obituary in the paper explaining that you were "suddenly taken" from your loved ones. Or you could become paralyzed. What would you say to your family and friends then? I hope your health and/or car insurance covers all the costs, and your family doesn't have to make any time or monetary sacrifices to care for you. What was that about not putting anyone else's needs ahead of yours?
This should not be modded troll, because it isn't.