Think of the children! WWYD?

"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner) 02/14/2018 at 09:23 • Filed to: What would you do?, WWYD

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Would you drive anything, any time or pass that privilege onto your demon spawn offspring? 

Let’s pretend for a moment that you can drive any car ever made, any time you desire. Snap your fingers and a Delorean appears. Fully gassed up and totally reliable. Run the tank dry and snap your finger and the tank is full. Wake up and take a Raptor to work then drive a 1940 Bentley racecar home. You don’t ever need to do maintenance or even have a need for a garage. The downside is that your children will neither care nor want to ever drive. They will go their entire lives not knowing the joy of a perfect heel-toe downshift or feeling a car just slide a touch, skirting on the edge of adhesion. They will never get a license and will be chauffeured around in a driverless vehicle. Forever.

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Would you give up driving giving your children the option of inheriting your finger snapping magic. This doesn’t guarantee they will want to drive. They simply have the ability. You will be stuck in a driverless car. They can’t be counted on to drive you around. It may happen but your normal day to day activities will be centered around the Koala looking Google car. You will never steer or command any type of vehicle again, ie no motorcycle, atv, tractor, snowmobile........... Your children may snap their fingers and a driverless car appears as their preferred mode of transportation.

Do you keep the gratification or pass it onto them knowing they might actually not even enjoy it?

Nibby > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:36

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where’s the driving over children option?

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:39

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I’m selfish and would keep that magical power to myself. The price for that is bound to happen eventually when people stop caring about cars, and that’s probably going to happen soon so that’s my choice.

CalzoneGolem > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:40

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I can’t snap my fingers and make a car appear for my child?

Future next gen S2000 owner > CalzoneGolem 02/14/2018 at 09:40

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Sure. They won’t ever drive it though.

bob and john > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:42

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LOL fuck the little ones.

CalzoneGolem > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:43

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I don’t like this question.

vondon302 > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:45

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Too easy option one

Future next gen S2000 owner > CalzoneGolem 02/14/2018 at 09:46

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It’s a tough one. I thought about it on the way into work. It’s quite evil. I think it boils down to whether or not you have kids. If you do, it is difficult. If you don’t, it’s easy.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 09:48

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Easy: in the unlikely event I’d get kids, and they wouldn’t care about driving I’d disinherit them it wouldn’t hurt them not to know, they’d probably find other occupations.
Whereas, taking away my ability to drive and being forced to roll in a driverless car would deeply disappoint me (having to drive my mom’s autobox Crossgolf is painful enough when I have to).
So gib me all the cars!

The only downside I see there is bonding, but I guess we could find other interesting topics, like the latest snapchat filters.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 02/14/2018 at 09:50

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Read carefully. They also might be complete enthusiasts. You don’t know how they will turn out. You could be removing their greatest joy in the world.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:02

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How could they become enthusiasts without ever driving a car?

Chuckles > vondon302 02/14/2018 at 10:03

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I’m right there with you. Here’s a more challenging version for the childfree among us: would you want this power if it meant that you had to have children and raise them to adulthood?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 02/14/2018 at 10:06

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They could enjoy tinkering, being a crew chief, detailing them, selling them, admiring their design, designing them.......

You don’t have to drive to be a car enthusiast. You don’t have to play football to be a football fan.

Captain of the Enterprise > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:07

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Thy may not be able to drive by then anyway because of driverless cars so I’ll take the whatever I want option. Plus there’s a good chance they won’t be into it anyway. Also I’m not looking to have kids anyway but that’s where I sit for the hypothetical.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:08

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Can my children “pilot” the vehicle, as in they are the one’s coding the computer that is driving?

BigBlock440 > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:09

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If you listen to the auto “journalists”, my kids aren’t going to ever drive anyway. Or maybe won’t even be allowed to. So I’ll keep the finger snapping thing, they can find their own hobbies.

Future next gen S2000 owner > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 02/14/2018 at 10:18

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They have that option. Although I don’t think piloting is the right word for writing software code.

mazda616 > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:25

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My son just turned one. By the time he’s old enough to drive, cars will be vastly different and probably a lot less fun than they are now. So, I’d take the option myself and drive him around in cool cars while it’s still possible.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:35

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Yea, wasn’t sure what to call it. I think I’d be selfish then and take the ability myself.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 10:57

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OK, but in that case, if they’d never had the chance to drive, I could simply tell them it is terrible, and drive away hiding my grin until I’m out of sight.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Chuckles 02/14/2018 at 10:57

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Depends. Would they be able to be adopted children, or would I have to pass my terrible genetic cocktail on to another generation?

interstate366, now In The Industry > vondon302 02/14/2018 at 10:58

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I still need that shirt. (And the person providing the other income, but that’s neither here nor there...)

Chuckles > interstate366, now In The Industry 02/14/2018 at 11:01

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They would be your biological children.

Personally, I’d pass on the car magic if it meant you had to have children.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Chuckles 02/14/2018 at 11:07

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The only way I’d do it is if my avatar was the mother, and that ain’t happening. So I’m with you.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Future next gen S2000 owner 02/14/2018 at 11:53

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There is no doubt, I’d keep my magical snaps.

vondon302 > interstate366, now In The Industry 02/14/2018 at 11:58

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I’ve been thinking I should make Sink shirt.

Chuckles > vondon302 02/14/2018 at 12:22

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I wouldn’t mind something to the effect of “No Kids, Just Dogs” but NKJD doesn’t have the same ring to it.

vondon302 > Chuckles 02/14/2018 at 13:02

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Dogs Only No Kids



Chuckles > vondon302 02/14/2018 at 13:07

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The graphic could be a donk with dogs in the windows.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Chuckles 02/14/2018 at 13:22

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I would buy this shirt.