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- technology@lemmy.world
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- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11676601
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11676601
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
A 7,000-pound vehicle is not a car. It is a truck.
Yeah…the article goes on to only talk about SUVs and trucks, not cars.
A bit click baity.
It is a car if all it does is transport one worryingly fat human being from their home to their office and back
Behold, a car https://media.tenor.com/BTedXqbEgEQAAAAM/nikocado-scooter.gif
Now you’re getting into the philosophy of names and labels. Does a label follow an objects form or function or neither? Does it’s use simply follow from the convenience of relaying an idea through the limitations of language?
In your example, does the label change if the human is not fat? Or if they are going to the bar instead of work? What is really pertaining to the nature of using the label “car” in your example?
A Telsa X LR Plaid carrying 4 extremely obese or muscular passengers wouldn’t be a car?