Meh same with dog, tree, flower, architecture, bird, etc, people.
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I’m more discerning regarding the model of my first car, or similar models. Got used to finding that car in a parking lot, etc.
Isn’t this the case for any hobby or niche field?
The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
Can’t have nice things
Right? What was it hurting to have some people believe this. Just let people enjoy things, does it really matter whether the shrimp color vision thingy was true or not?
That dress was fucking white and gold, and I’ll go to my grave believing the black and blue one was some sort of conspiracy.
Dammit
All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it’s stuck with me ever since.
I never knew one school bus from another, they were all just big yellow boxes. Then I started looking to buy a used one and somehow I can now tell make, model and year of every single one I see. I know what engines and transmissions they all have. I can even tell my district’s buses apart from the neighboring district’s buses although they’re exactly the same buses, even if I can’t see the lettering or numbers on the sides. And yet somehow I’m still single!
Ill marry you and we can ride off into the sunset in your skoolie.
About that: my skoolie only has a single bed. You could have the hammock, I suppose.
buddy hammock? :3
Sounds like bad planning.
Or good planning if you hate company.
Weird, I have been looking to buy a smartphone and I can still not tell them apart.
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jk I am not on the looking for a new smartphone. Just been thinking of getting one.
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
Always found cats names on their collars myself. Where do you live that they’re putting them on the back? And why is that helpful?
A place where the cats are so ugly, they shave their butts and teach them to walk backwards?
No such place. All cats a purrfect.
You’ve never seen a cathole tattooed with its name, you’ve never lived
The back labels are why cats sniff each other’s bums when they meet.
I’m pretty good at that and I don’t know why. I guess I just passively pay a lot of attention to car makes/models for some reason.
For me, it’s fun being able to identify things correctly. I was playing that color HEX code guessing game for a bit on !dailygames@lemmy.zip, and it’s the same feeling.
It has been becoming harder, though.
Not only are most cars looking alike nowadays, but manufacturers are also mostly not putting model name badges on their cars any more… :-(Except for the models where they put the name in huge indented letters on the tailgate of hatch like the M A V E R I C K.
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So glad I’m not the only one bothered by this one
lol wait what i thought it was a joke spin on prelude, it’s real?
well i guess it’s still a joke, but honda themselves made itYeah, it’s their EV crossover that’s actually made by GM.
It’s not even a real honda. It’s a badge engineered GM.
But that’s still nothing compared to the huge alphanumeric designators of the olden days:
“Ford Fiesta 1.6 GTI LS 4x4 Sunny Hedgehog Edition”That didn’t even match the designation! I got an “xle” car and was curious what’s it meant. You ready for this bullshit? Executive luxury edition! It’s the fucking base model! The top end model is called the touring. Like in what world does that make sense‽
And they’re all grey.
My friend had a grey SUV that for the life of me I could not find in a parking lot. So many gray SUVs that all look the same…
I hate the vehicle color trend of Depression Grey. And blue. And mold green.
Blame the cops. They were pulling over brighter vehicles at a higher rate for a long time. May still be.
From my subjective point of view. I’ve noticed they pull over older cars. I just gave my cousin my 2005 sonata with 300k. It’s brown with faded clear coat on the hood. I got pulled over every other month in that thing despite breaking no laws. Just got a new Avalon and haven’t been pulled over once since, despite not having plates on it the day I picked it up.
That definitely became a thing. They think if you have an older car it means you won’t have insurance so they’ll be able to ticket you. Drug dealers around here used to ride in hoopties (the assumption at the time was that cops wouldn’t stop them because they knew they didn’t have any money) which probably doesn’t help the perception of older cars. They moved on a while back to newer and more invisible cars like slightly used SUVs.
For a while the number of white cars on the road was like 1/3 (the greatest number), black cars made up about 1/5, and red was 5%. But red cars were pulled over the second most.
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I used to be like that back in highschool/college when I was more into cars. It was fun being able to find the small details of the car to single out which year model it was and stuff like that.
Now, I don’t have the time or interested to do that any more.
2017 chevy stigmaballs
the stig’s american cousin’s car?
My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it’s just a regular looking sedan
There’s an older Toyota sedan called the crown that actually came with the inline 6 cylinder made famous in the supra. Super boring looking, but incredibly cool car. I pointed one out to an Uber passenger the other day and got the same reaction.
There is both a new Crown and an imported 90s S150 Crown in my area and the existence of the new one always makes me sad because my brain sees it more often than the other one…
Yeah, not a fan of the new one. And they are using it as an Avalon replacement! I fucking love my Avalons! Seriously I’ve had 3. Rick solid cars all around.
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
I admit I only know what a Stigmata is because the commercial with the guy with the bleeding hands was cool. Killer ad campaign to release them on Halloween too!
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
That’s a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn’t need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it’s due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
Oh shit. I forgot about the 2018 mid quarter decade refresh. They don’t usually get that much attention. I’m glad people like you are here to track those changes.
I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.
But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).
I have a very bad sense of smell - not sure if it’s technically anosmia but if not it’s close - but the few things I can smell, I can smell very well and usually identify pretty quickly.
Your husband and I could be best friends because I also have poor hearing and can do the same thing with motorcycles with a pretty high success rate.
We can sit in the same room not talking. Then one of us will think the other said something and yell “Huh?”. The other will loudly reply “What?”. Then that’ll go on for several minutes until we both smile and nod.
😂 that happens sometimes with TV voices. He’ll think I said something and I just look at the TV like…“Yeah that was them.” He does wear hearing aids, which work well 95% of the time. That 5% when they don’t work can be ROUGH.
There are generations. Like the same body style for several years.
I can pretty much always do make.
Model for fun cars but not boring ones/trucks/vans/suvs.
Year for the outstanding exemplary best model years of the fun ones.
Any more, cars change very little between years. Sometimes hard to tell even after a “refresh” in the middle of a generation. My kid thinks it’s a superpower that I can tell the differences between generations of Corvettes. Like dude, I’ve had car magazines in my hands since I was half your age.
Yeah for a lot of cars (such as my own Audi a3 sportback), I’d only be able to give you a fairly wide range of years because whatever changes there were are more or less imperceptible.
Which is totally understandable, really. It makes no sense to retool every single year to make small adjustments like the 50’s and 60’s. That being said ford made several “generations” of mustang without ever changing the frame. I think of the last 3 full redesigns, they’ve all shared 2 generations of architecture. That’s too long to go without updating the core of the car.
I consider myself hard of hearing, but only at certain frequencies. I can hear lower (bass) sounds much better than mid range sounds; high pitch sounds hurt like a mother!
Basic reading skills and a not completely non-functioning memory is beyond people’s abilities?
Don’t forget interest. I have 0 interest in learning these things, so they won’t stick even if I try. And I’ve tried.
If it’s trains or planes on the other hand…
I pity y’all, the roads are so beautiful to me.
