{"id":1315,"date":"2011-04-02T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2011-04-02T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T22:03:10","slug":"monacon-testing-the-electric-derp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Monacon: Testing the Electric Derp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a known fact that 99% of electric car concepts and products look <em>derpy<\/em>. There&#8217;s positively no other word to describe them. They&#8217;re generally made the same way consumer electronics are made &#8211; an industrial design professional makes a smooth, Apple-inspired case, and the engineers stuff the electronics in somehow. So in the end, you get a car that looks round and bubbly without hard angles or defined shapes (because that&#8217;s too industrial? An actual quote from 2.009 instructors, I kid you not), lacking definition, or a spine. It looks like you took a real car and half-melted it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I&#8217;m once again blaming Apple for ever consumer product design trend that I find distasteful and off-putting. There go my chances of ever working for them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a video of me driving the derpiest looking car on the planet. I will say that despite the derp, it has a pretty solid kick.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gtPGgJSPNhw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gtPGgJSPNhw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of an upscale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?page_id=197\" target=\"_blank\">lolriokart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a known fact that 99% of electric car concepts and products look derpy. There&#8217;s positively no other word to describe them. They&#8217;re generally made the same way consumer electronics are made &#8211; an industrial design professional makes a smooth, Apple-inspired case, and the engineers stuff the electronics in somehow. So in the end, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-boston","tag-monaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}