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- Why Do I Want to Yell in My Car? Maybe It's Not Anger, Just Self-Expression Thawing OutSometimes, the second I'm alone in the car, I suddenly want to make a weird noise.
- Why does my car smell burnt before starting? Smoke vs real faultYou open the door after the car has been parked for hours and the cabin already smells burnt.
- Why Do All the "Flashy Guys" Seem to Gather in Nightlife Districts?Walk through a busy nightlife district in Japan and you may catch yourself thinking, "Are flashy, smooth-talking guys only found in clubs, bars and hostess…
- Why Quiet People Get Loud During Games, Sports, Karaoke, and DrivingYou don't talk much.
- Why Some People Still Memorize the Whole Route Before a TripWe've got smartphones.
- Why slammed cars fear speed bumps: what you gain by going lowWhen you see a car sitting almost on the pavement, one question arrives before any engineering analysis:
- Is the cheapest used car the best value? Wagon R and Aqua surviveIf a used car will be kept for many years and resale value barely matters, the math changes.
- Why Japan uses both Crown sedans and compact police carsJapanese police fleets can look oddly inconsistent: a large Crown-type patrol car may be followed by a compact car that appears far less intimidating.
- How One Pencil Line Becomes a Multi-Trillion-Yen Factory — Why Upstream Decisions Matter So MuchOne hour into Suzuki History Museum and you have barely moved.
- Can you enter a gas station the "wrong" way? An unwritten queue ruleImagine a self-service gas station.
- I Barely Know World Geography, but Somehow I Know Brazilian Utility Poles — How Watching GeoGuessr Teaches the World Through Sky Rifts, Snorkels, and Roadside PostsYou do not need to know much world geography to enjoy watching GeoGuessr. In fact, knowing very little makes the learning order even funnier.
- The Internet Eats Boredom, Outsourcing Eats Chores, and Your Gut Waits Until You Drive: Designing Life Around Time AutonomyA question about a public-health building was the doorway into this topic, but public-health administration is not the main subject here.
- From a Showa block wall to a Roomba-like EV: Suzuki PlazaNear the end of the Suzuki Plaza visit, the car has already gone through pencils, clay, a 5,600-ton press, welding robots, an E-coat bath, heat, cold, crash…
- Cars start as sketches, Photoshop files and clay: Suzuki PlazaVisit an automobile museum and you expect old cars.