The contest is over, we've officially found the Dumbest Rebranding Project Ever https://octodon.social/media/c9kjpOpDvqUneTtaKCo
@TrollDecker @jalefkowit I'm imagining a group of techbros into their third round of PBR pitchers at the local watering hole, staring at each other and trying to decide what to do with themselves once they realized developing phone apps was a non-starter. "We could work on cars. Cars are cool."
@bstacey @kara_dreamer @TrollDecker The only thing that would have been less surprising was moving to VR
@bstacey @TrollDecker @jalefkowit I wish I were fortunate enough in life that I could sit around with my mates and shoot the breeze about what people can give us money to do. I vote for artisanal pickles.
@kara_dreamer @TrollDecker @jalefkowit Or, as they say in app country, "pckl".
@kara_dreamer @TrollDecker @jalefkowit So, a weird thing, if you hadn't already heard about this... I know an unexpectedly (to me) large number of tech dudes who started working on cars for fun https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/technology/in-silicon-valley-the-rise-of-high-speed-networking.html
@lmorchard @TrollDecker @jalefkowit some confluence of having the riches of Croesus, a gnawing need to prove oneself at a conventionally masculine activity, and LOTS of Gran Turismo in youth
@kara_dreamer @TrollDecker @jalefkowit And then there's this guy who I used to work with https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/19/11450008/self-driving-cars-autonomous-racing-day-josh-schachter
@kara_dreamer @TrollDecker @jalefkowit Yep, I can see that.