Change Happens Quick

In Monday's episode of @dithering.fm entitled "Electric Cars and Meta Subs" John Gruber made some comments about an "alternate universe where cars went electric a long time ago" that I quite enjoyed, quoted here via lightly edited transcription: There's some other world where cars weren't gas driven for decades, and were driven by [battery technology having made advances decades earlier]. And in that alternate universe where the world was already all electric, or that was the default kind of car, cars would look very different. All vehicles would look very different than the cars we have today. The cars we have today, and what people think cars are supposed to look like, whatever the type – sports car, family sedan, SUV – is all kind of defined by the fact that they are internal combustion engine cars, and they have drivetrains that take up a thing in the middle. This reminded me of a satirical 2022 blog post entitled Test Drive of a Petrol Car that was written from a similar…