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Comment by smcleod | Hacker News Reader

This isn’t built for transport it’s for enjoyment / fun, sport and art.

If it's for sport, they should not be road legal and only allowed on race tracks. As a cyclist in the Bay Area, nothing is more annoying that all the sports car owners speeding up to and on skyline during the weekends.

In over 4 decades on earth, I haven't come across this sentiment before, but now that I'm considering it, I kind of agree.

I'd be sad if all public roads went that direction, but I think I'd like the peace and safety that could come with prohibiting anything like "spirited driving" on public roads in densely populated areas.

In densely populated areas, I'm with you. But out in the sticks, on a twisty road outside the city? I don't want to live in a world where the safety nuts have succeeded in making life dull, gray, and boring... but super safe.

If the safety issue was only about the car driver itself, I would say go for it. Unfortunately this often cause troubles for others.

So your "in the sticks, on a twisty road outside the city" -> closed track for that purpose.

We're not talking about whipping through the back roads at 100mph.

I legitimately can't figure out whether it's the left or the right that is more authoritarian. Both sides really love the idea, it seems, just on different topics. I hope the great big center reasserts sanity sometime soon.

I was talking about people speeding up on winding roads, passing without visibility etc. There is nothing authoritarian about asking that to stop.

It sounds like your argument is more with roads than cars. Personally while I think cycling is a great thing - it's quite ableist of you to assume everyone can cycle.

My argument is with people that believe that they can take their sports cars to open roads, usually the "fun ones" and make it miserable for every other users of these roads.

I stopped reading after "As a cyclist ..."

Lol classic cyclist comment

So it's a toy, like a fidget spinner, for men who lack abundance in areas that money can't help with.

Just because someone has different interests or definitions of what they find to be art doesn’t make them any less valid.

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