I would’ve assumed the primary arguments are:

Yeah. I didn’t click in to their video. I’m not going to support someone being a complete tool.

We had our car club do a road trip years and years ago, down in the US. At one point there was nothing but empty space on a freeway with great sightlines, so a few of us had a wee bit of fun while it was safe to do so. My buddy’s wife filmed his speedometer reading 180KMH, then looked up to see me ripping past him…

That such a thing is even watched enough to be a basis for a channel offends me. People are such morons.

He’s going out of his way to destroy usable vehicles, and buggering up the environment in the process?

Giving “safety chains” a whole new meaning.

As a motorcyclist, I’m more on edge with those idiots than I am with 99% of cars. They’ll often rip through intersections on reds, suddenly move in to my lane, turn without signaling and they’re rarely approaching anything even resembling control. They’re almost always the worst kind of bicyclist, but strapped on to…

PC has mod support. The base content is the same, but there’s oodles of user-made tracks and cars on the PC version.

Fair enough, suppose I should count my blessings.

Right after a pretty long straight, meaning missing a braking zone by even a couple feet is the difference between scrubbing too much speed, and overshooting it.

Nah, the square ones aren’t spaced out at all, and they don’t need to be. The cooling plate between the row has a hell of a lot more surface area per cell to work with with the square cells though (hitting 50% of their faces, as opposed to small points on the top and bottom of the radius of the cylinder).

They are, without exception, my most hated commuters to deal with. Some bicyclists are stupid. Some drivers are stupid. Some pedestrians are stupid. But damn near all e-bikers I’ve seen are stupid.

I mentioned in a few other comments, but the cylindrical cells don’t have cooling between them or in the wasted gaps, they still use cooling plates in between the rows of them. So that’s not really a benefit to them, if anything, the square cells have more contact with the cooling plates.

Every manufacturer that I’ve seen uses coolant plates in between the rows of cells, which benefits the square cells even more than the cylindrical ones, so that ain’t it.

1 & 2 are probably responsible for most of the reasoning, you’re right. There’s a metric boatload of cylindrical cells available from dozens of different manufacturers, so it’s super simple to get bids for mass inventories when you’re building a car.

The advantage for cars that I could see, is to both centre the weight better, and consume less interior volume. I definitely agree that it’s more important for a bike than a car, but I’m still surprised not one manufacturer has thought to go that route.

Really? I love it for the same reason I love the corkscrew on Leguna Seca: Seems super simple, is actually ridiculously challenging to do right.

Oof, awful take man. Several tracks (Or entire leagues for that matter) are better off because they’re difficult. Senna wasn’t adored because he could drive a nice, grippy surface. He was an entertainer because he could find speed when it was raining and awful to drive on.

This seems like it would take away the only reason for Sebring to exist. It requires a dedicated telemetry set-up and different driving method, those aren’t negatives, they’re positives. Making it so teams could run the exact same set-up and driving style as the run every other race would make it like every other race.

The real question is: Why are we still using cylindrical cells in rectangular housings? Zero Motorcycles - a tiny manufacturer by any stretch of the imagination - already figured out that making square cells allows for a much better use of space, yet apparently multi-billion dollar corporations are seemingly unable to…