A friend. A gentle pal. A little beep-beep.
A GMod mapmaker's first func_vehicle, and just as hostile to human life.
I also feel that kei-trucks and kei-cars are emblematic what remains of the vehicle as a tool and as a Thing, rather than what we have now where cars are built to be an extension of our ever-online lives and data surrendering to giant fucking corps.
I've had this same rant about phones, that "mArKeT iNnOvAtIoNs" have lead us to the same shiny rectangle and that we gave up tactility and fun and playfulness for convenience and feeding the algorithm. Why did we let Big Tech take our buttons away? Why did we let Big Tech convince us that every single UI element needs to be flat and lifeless? Technology was so optimistic and fun and colourful and now its fucking Arial in fucking 12 point.
Kei cars are skeuomorphism. Kei cars are frutiger aero. Kei cars are tactility and mechanical redundancies. Kei cars are alive.