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[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Horsepower is a stupid way to measure how powerful a car is. What is this the 1800s?

[–] Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Its not even accurate to its name! Horses have more than 1 horse power!

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Yep! And people have different sized feet, so measuring distance in feet is silly and arbitrary!

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

IIRC, a horse can output more than one horsepower in bursts, but can sustain one horsepower all day.

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Madness, utter madness.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Also there are like 5 different horsepowers and ways to measure it

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I wish I could say "no big deal" but this is really bugging me more then it should.