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The CityNerd video about Disneyland is pretty on-point about Autopia: In an otherwise compact, walkable park, that attraction takes up an inordinate amount of space, and often has long queues, because it's so space-inefficient. Only a handful of people can get in at a time.
It's, like, the perfect demonstration of driving, in miniature.
they should put more cars on the track to simulate gridlock traffic jams, and have a mix of diesel and electric cars in addition to the classic ones, and rename it to autodystopia 😅
Autopia sucked ever since they put the little track things in so you're not even driving a car, you're just giving gas or brakes to a train/roller coaster cart, anyway. I can't quite remember the layout of the park but aren't the bumper cars nearby? Just extend the bumpercar area into the Autopia track so it's massive as fuck. Or even combine them so you can pretend to be on one of those hotwheels tracks that shoots the cars into a single intersection for maximum carnage. 😃
I'm pretty sure autopia was always on a track. At least in my lifetime.
I mean, it was on a track in the sense that there was a lane that kept you inside the ride area; but the lane was freely traversible (as well as not being wide enough to pass another car) and you had to steer to avoid hitting the sides and such like a go kart track. But at some point they put the cars onto an actual guided track that keeps you in the center and you could just not even have hands on the wheel to complete the whole thing.
I just looked up some of the pictures. Would have been super cool.
I would never ever be caught in such a wretched place of greed and villiany. Normies just look at you like your crazy but these parks are the networks of the devils bossom. A land of imprinting and brainwashing children. It is a mechinism of imperialism. This is were it begins. Pffft north korea.... big whoop take a look outside of yourself and you will see a world of pure imagination.