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Electric cars drag racing? Ugh, please say it isn't true.
Below you’ll find a YouTube video. At one point in time, YouTube clips were the future. That time has passed and now things like Vimeo offer similar service with higher quality. Hooray for the future and the never ending improvements that it ushers in, right? Not always.
The video below is of an electric car drag race. Allow me to shorten that sentence for you. Electric car drag race. Two separate ideas that should never have met. Drag racing is about high-horsepower, fossil fuel burning contests of straight-line speed and reaction times. A sport of men–and occasionally of women—where speeds can reach 100, 200, even 300 mph! Half of the experience is seeing the raw speed that the cars demonstrate as they tear down the track, the second half though, hits your other senses. The smell of race fuel wafting heavily into your nostrils, so much so that you can basically taste the gas on your tongue. The sound of 800+hp blown V8s roaring past the stands. The feeling that the explosions within the cylinders create against your chest as the exhaust gases escape into the atmosphere and directly into the stands. It’s the kind of stuff that true “car guys” thrive on.
And then there’s this electric car drag race between the Tango Commuter Car and the Tesla Roadster. Certainly it’s a contest of speed—kinda—but come on! Where’s the excitement? Where’s the noise and the smell? What about the reverberations that shake your lungs against your ribcage? There’s none of that, just a slight buzzing noise and the sound of the wind. The dictionary has a perfect word for this race. You know what it is? Lame.
Are electric cars the answer in the near future? I’ll say possibly, even though I hope they’re not. Can they be almost as fun as their gas powered equivalents? I’m a bit skeptical, but maybe—I have had some fun in a golf kart before. Do these cars have any business in motorsports, especially in drag racing? Hell no.
If this is the future, then stop the world, because I’d like to get off. —M.T.
It's totally lame and you're right, here's the dictionary definition. Keywords below? "metrically defective" these cars have no real power. lame |l?m| adjective 1 (of a person or animal) unable to walk normally because of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot : his horse went lame. • (of a leg or foot) affected in this way. 2 (of an explanation or excuse) unconvincingly feeble : it was a lame statement and there was no excusing his behavior. • (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull. • (of a person) naive or inept, esp. socially : anyone who doesn't know that is obviously lame. • (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective.
Isn't drag racing the ideal venue for batteries? Building a battery with a range of 1/4 mile should be pretty easy and a big honking electrical motor will have max torque at 0 rpm. I'm all for it!
Boring. Fast, but boring.
Isn't losing a part of your hearing an important part of the drag racing?
At this point we may aswell just put the cars on slot tracks
That doesn't make sense. Driver skill is not eliminated by electric cars.
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So much torque like it can move the earth. Cool!
who cares if they're fast...they have no sound
Didn't the Tesla get owned? lol