I’ve talked for years about something I call the Cupholder Quotient. Number of cupholders divided by number of people seated comfortably in a car. Greater than one is good. It’s an off the cuff measurement of a car’s design quality and it tends to be pretty accurate. The more cups a car is designed to support per passenger, the more likely the designers were empathically considering how the vehicle might be used from the passengers’ perspective.
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Have I got a car for you. Designed with no intelligence whatsoever, including Artificial Intelligence.
I'm positive this is why Ford had to hire back all their engineers ;)
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