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d_2 said:

I truly weep for the generations to come that will have no idea what driving an automobile with a real, gasoline engine feels like... and somehow this is progress

You're obviously too young to remember when everyone travelled by steam train! We used to stop on a railway bridge here in the UK with my parents when we were young to see the local express zooming underneath with the steam billowing out and the driver always waved to us. Progress (or what is called progress) comes in many forms.