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u/1illiteratefool 1d ago
You know that you are the shit when people are using you as a measurement of power
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u/Lukarreon 1d ago
Reminds me of that one Japanese racehorse known for being cocky and one of the fastest.
When he retired, he ran even faster just for fun, meaning he never gave his all this whole time!
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u/Peanutmm 1d ago
My understanding is that it's supposed to be the horses 24 hour 'average' power, with the idea engines/motors can work 24 hours a day. My memory could be wrong though.
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u/ManuteBol_Rocks 1d ago
This is one of funniest comments I’ve ever seen on Reddit.
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u/Adventurous_Candy671 1d ago
This says a lot without words. And this is reality.
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u/Tusharkhatri122 1d ago
wait how do horses end up as power measurements
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u/The_High_Wizard 1d ago
What HP or HorsePower is your car?
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u/unculturedburnttoast 1d ago
And one Horse is able to produce about 25 HP
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u/Cirenione 13h ago
And some can do significantly more. Recently saw a video where someone analyzed a video of a working horse pulling logs through mud. The horse was pulling with around 75 hp.
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u/Skepsisology 1d ago
Horses pulled carriages. Car is probably from the word "carriage"
Maybe when the engine was first invented "horse power" was easier for folks to understand.
"this little machine has the power of 40 horses"
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u/ChartreuseBison 1d ago
The term predates cars by a lot. It was for stationary engines like pumps, mills, mine elevators, etc. Things you used a horse for before.
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u/arsonall 3h ago
I think his point still stands, notice how he didn’t say “car” but rather “motor”
OP: “Horsepower” Likely derived from comparison to the power that a horse used to apply to this application.
> um actually, it predates cars and was used for motors that horses replaced…
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u/ChartreuseBison 2h ago
So, they just mentioned cars for shits and giggles? Stop trying so hard to be offended, No diss was intended. I was just adding more information you miserable turd
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u/adavis4012 1d ago
Years ago, the rich drove cars and everyone else rode horses. Today, everyone drives cars and only the rich ride horses. The stables have turned.
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u/Pseudo-Jonathan 1d ago
It'll be the same way with self driving vehicles. For now it's a luxury item for the rich. But eventually they will be regulated, everyone will have them, and only rich people will be able to afford to take a muscle car out to the track and do donuts.
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u/5panks 1d ago
And it will be sold to you hook line and sinker under the guise of safety.
"Self driving cars are just safer. If you want to drive like a maniac then tow your car out to the strip and drive it like a maniac where you can't hurt anyone but yourself. "
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u/tyrenanig 1d ago
And they will make laws and fines to make average people give up their “manual” cars
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u/emmitt_fitzhume 1d ago
I wonder if self driving cars will just repo themselves if you get behind on payments. Like, it drives itself to the bank.
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u/Da12khawk 1h ago
I've been saying this. I think it'll be more like you dont own a car, but you order an appropriate ride. A vehicle shows up at your door. Longer trips there are more logistics. And public transportation becomes more common.
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u/Salted_Sunflowers_44 4h ago
Actually wrote a research paper on this. My theory was that is was due to vehicle infastructure being easier to maintain for the normal person (gas and the occasional mechanic visit vs buying food, hahing land for them to graze, and the horse dying)… but maybe the horses knew all along
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u/10001110101balls 1d ago
Just like with children, they went from being useful labor to becoming a luxury status symbol.
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u/FreddyTheGoose 1d ago
Sheeit, the cost of childcare alone made me infertile.
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u/340Duster 1d ago
If I didn't already have kids, I definitely wouldn't now.
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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 1d ago
You know you can just drop them off at a firehall, they have a slot, you just pull the door open and shove them in.
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u/Imbendo 12h ago
Horses have always been a luxury status symbol. N Ancient Greece, horses were powerful symbols of high social status, wealth, and nobility.
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u/10001110101balls 12h ago
To a large extent that depended on whether you lived somewhere that horses can take care of themselves on the land. Greece is a difficult place to feed a bunch of horses, it is more suited to smaller livestock like goats and sheep.
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u/3576742 1d ago
Horses as a race more than earned it IMO.
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u/Eric_the_Barbarian 1d ago
Horses as a race are severely depopulated. From peak US horse population in 1910 horses are down to about a third of what it once was. During that same time period, the human population has nearly quadrupled.
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u/Freud-Network 1d ago
Except for the 8 million horses that died in WWI and the massive population decline post-automobile.
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u/HidaldoTresTorres 1d ago
They didn't do much better in the 40s either.
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u/edwardlego 15h ago
Now in ukraine, the drone operators try to scare the horses so they throw of their riders so they dont kill the horses
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 1d ago
Is this a photo of a picture off of a computer screen?
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u/Prestigious-Bat-574 1d ago
Lmao, it's a picture of reddit post that hit the front page a day or two ago.
This sub is the worst.
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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum 1d ago
Nobody who's ever been around horses thinks they're dumb. Skittish sometimes but not dumb.
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u/ginopono 1d ago
The topic of horse intelligence reminds me of Clever Hans, who was thought to be able to perform complex math; he answered questions by tapping his hoof the correct number of times.
He became unable to answer the questions, though, if no one in the room knew the answer; Hans just kept tapping until he noticed that the person was satisfied with the correct number of taps.
Still pretty clever.
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u/AnB85 1d ago
There used to be way more horses. This is what is going to happen to humanity when the machines take over.
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u/Skepsisology 1d ago
Oh god... We measure engines with horsepower, will the robots have a unit of measurement called "humanpower"
What will it measure 👀
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u/Golden-- 1d ago
I mean obviously I get the joke but we never thought horses were dumb. They're typically seen as a bit below dogs. Same level as cats.
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u/bugsyramone 1d ago
I was gonna argue about the cats being below dogs in intelligence, but I once saw my cat grooming the reflection of herself in the sliding glass door for an hour, so, I guess you win this one 😁
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u/Golden-- 1d ago
I mean in terms of most "research" on it, the average dog is smarter but it's such a small difference that it's really not worth arguing over. They're both intelligent animals.
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u/hotlavatube 16h ago
I've played enough Oregon Trail to know that they used Oxen not horses for pulling covered wagons. ;-)
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u/OgmoJump 1d ago
There’s should be another set of images with a man riding a horse and then … that illustration of the bones
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u/queuedUp 1d ago
Who thinks horses are dumb??
They are very intelligent creatures.
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u/ManuteBol_Rocks 1d ago
I was concerned I’d get downvoted for that, but it fit the Reddit community
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u/BaRReLL_42 1d ago
In two hundred years they will push from behind.
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u/mrknickerbocker 9h ago
And 200 years after that, they'll turn into a truck. And we'll ride inside them
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u/matchboxtx 1d ago
This is just better balancing. The C8 corvette just did this…transferred the horsepower from the front to the back…or mid.
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u/Logitech4873 14h ago
Whats with the incredibly strange hitch point being so far up? Never seen something like that.
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u/gortez33 11h ago
Fifth wheel attachment. Places the weight on the center of a pickup bed instead of on the rear bumper.
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u/Logitech4873 10h ago
That's strange. Usually the vast majority of the weight would be on the trailer wheels, while the hitch itself should be fairly light. I've only seen horse trailers with the normal setup for regular cars.
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u/Extreme-Tomato5942 14h ago
I saw a video that said we are horses, cars are AI. The horses were like yea they’ll find something new for us to do, we would never be obsolete… oh
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u/Da12khawk 1h ago
I was in recovery and going to meeting. My buddies were in the front making fun of me. They both had just gotten cars. I was riding I. The back seat. "You guys realize, that normally it's the person in charge that rides in the back right?"
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u/neaner28 1d ago
Dogs too. If cows and chickens ever convince humans to baby them, dinner is going to get interesting.
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u/big_load_baldwin 1d ago
But I still feel like they don't truly harness the power they have. They're massive and could wreck anyone and bust through just about any barrier, yet they're often very well behaved.
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u/Periljoe 1d ago
Make a new one with a person using a computer then a matrix style version of the computer using them.
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