Holy fucking smokes, Batman. Was the mouse the evil one all along?

Oh man it was worst??? Was the worst faux car experience I ever had.

Those are probably the same engines used in small AC generators and manual lawnmowers. Yes, the four-stroke ones are better but have you ever used a lawnmower? It is loud and stinky.

A very good analog to all your car infrastructure then.

They should rebrand to Yesterdayland.

The ride predates most US freeway construction — it was meant to serve as a vision for what an automobile-heavy society could look like.

Yeah, those of us that want to live don't have the means to fix it, and those of them that have the power won't care as they'll be/are rich enough to buy nuclear powered islands with air scrubbers or move to Mars.

Boomers: "I used to be able to fix my car myself"

Also boomers: "New cars should have heated gas pedals"

I wouldnt go as far as to call the horseless carraige evil, but you could absolutely argue that between how they isolate people in bubbles, kill pedestrians and are contributing to climate change anti-social for sure

Which is pretty funny because modern cars are getting insanely reliable. My car is a decade old, I drive it from sea level to 14,000 ft without having to adjust anything, it gets almost 800 miles a tank on road trips, and I've done zero maintenance or adjustment beyond oil changes once a year and adjusting the seat heater or radio station.

But ohhh the nostalgia for the 1970s beater dying every three months while the leaded gas melts your brain and you gotta feed it a quart of oil after a long (for those cars, 300 miles) road trip.

Also, am car enthusiast. I feel the "typical" enthusiast should just be reclassified as "antique car enthusiast" at this point.

Sure... But it's a ride in Tomorrowland. It's a travesty that those things aren't solar powered hovercars or some shit.

charming novelty alone

Noisy and smelly cars exhausting particulate matter into the lungs of children is your idea of a "charming novelty"? Yes, it's a drop in the ocean overall but it's a bad look and Disney should be selling a better future and not just reinforcing our disgusting past (and present for that matter).

And on your leaf blower point, frankly they should be all electric at this point, both because of their pollution but also the extremely annoying noise that people around them have to suffer.