I unironically love germans
Obviously in the dystopia of Night City, lighter weight manhole covers were approved for road use purely to cut costs, and any deformed or destroyed covers have the cost offloaded to the poor rube who last ran them over.
So it is technically canon that cars start flipping or crashing for no apparent reason - the goddamn manhole covers broke.
Most of the complaints about bugs in this game seemed overblown, but this is unforgivable.
german humor, wonderful
And then they fixed it, right? Right?!?
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, in this dystopian world nobody cares about manhole cover standards anymore.
This is part of the test you need to ace if you want to get German citizenship. We have some standards
I have never thought about the fact that manholes need to hold up to weight. Of course they do and it’s perfectly normal and sensible. It’s just not a thought I’ve ever had.
For formula one races they weld them down to stop the cars incredible downforce from sucking them up into the air. Even then they sometimes get torn up and thrown around.
Very important to take them seriously.
Manhole covers are also a common exercise for engineering students. Like designing one that can hold x amount of weight with a specific set of limitations and/or requirements.
Technically it’s the manhole covers that need to support the weight.
Manholes themselves are expected to do the opposite of holding weight
Manholes themselves are expected to do the opposite of holding weight
They hold light?
Structures underground experience buoyant forces that act to push them up. Manholes (and any structure bottom, like storm inlets, pump station wet wells, etc) need special consideration since they can be partially or mostly hollow, so they have to be heavy enough to remain in place.
It’s dark inside so of course the light is held □
literally unplayable
