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What the hell is going on with the technology and development of Equestria? Villages and towns appear to have 12th-14th century architecture and rural zoning, yet cities like Manehattan have skyscrapers and urban layouts like the early 20th. There aren't any cars, computers, TV or radio, yet they have rail, electricity, helicopters and devices like X-ray machines, arcade cabinets and digital music equipment.
It appears Equestria has a very strange mishmash of developed stuff all the way from renaissance to as late as the 1950s, most snugly fitting into the early-industrial era of 1870s-1920s.
Why don't they just develop cars already? Are they stupid?
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>>43288404
>Why don't they just develop cars already? Are they stupid?
Me, the autistic fag who prefers care over trains: Because they chose to use tech for bringing out the best of both (?) time periods, while leaving out the nihilistic corporate noise.
>no computers
Not that we've seen.
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>>43288404
Why would they develop cars, they're horses they're built for walking long distances
Also timber framing houses is not exclusive of skyscrapers. People were still living in sod houses in certain areas of the country in the early 1900s. I get what Faust was trying to do. Little House on the Prairie meets magical unicorns
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>>43288404
Equestria isn't a setting established by strict world building, but rather rough guidelines and a do-whatever-feels-right-for-the-episode approach, from my understanding. It's a whimsical fantastical land and the technological nonsense gives a lot of room to writefags to tear their hair out and/or come up with almost whatever they want.
And they did invent cars, sort of. Remember the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000? It wasn't even a scam, it was a legitimate technological marvel that was self-propelled, did the job well, and only broke down because Flim and Flam overloaded it. They could have had steam automobiles if they wanted to, but 'no cars' was probably a rule with an exception made for 'rare fantastical inventions' or 'occaisional heavy machinery' like the timberpunk tracked crane in the OP. Rules like that are meta, they shape the feel of the world but don't necessarily reflect the capabilities of its inhabitants. It's up to (you) to come up with reasons why they choose to limit certain tech.
I mean, these ponies pack a lot of horsepower and they can just fly or walk while pulling what they need with them. That's already reason enough in the case of motor vehicles. Cars might legitimately be less convenient than just hooking your wagon up to a couple pegasi, and the trains can cover bulk transport over long distances for earthbound passengers and their luggage etc.