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My fear is MORE urban sprawl, which is even MORE miles of highways to pave and care for, and MORE pollution in the short term until we get very eco friendly pow
by brianwawok 10y ago
My fear is MORE urban sprawl, which is even MORE miles of highways to pave and care for, and MORE pollution in the short term until we get very eco friendly powered electric cars.
Commutes are one of the only things that seem to limit urban sprawl.
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- maxerickson 10y agoCertainly seems possible. I do wonder if there is some vehicle ownership path dependence that feeds into sprawl though. If vehicle access becomes less of a binary choice, people don't double down on choices related to ownership.
- Shivetya 10y agoI prefer to state is as, more freedom to live where you want and how you want. still find it odd people complain about commute times by car when by rail/bus can be just as bad in many places. while many choose to live outside of cities many are forced to because of bad city planning, regulations, and other government practices, which only served to protect vested business and political interest. still I say though, you should be free to live where ever you want and can afford to.
- brianwawok 10y ago> still find it odd people complain about commute times by car when by rail/bus can be just as bad in many places. I find both just as bad. I had a 1 hour commute by train in Chicago. Was terribad. Cannot even imagine the 90 or 120 minute commute guys.
- randyrand 10y agoI also had an hour commute by train in Chicago. I loved it.
- space_fountain 10y agoThere is an advantage to electric cars here though. If you don't need to wait while the vehicle charges electric vehicles are a lot more attractive even with relatively small batteries.
- Neliquat 10y agoElectric cars just pollute upstream, and even with solar, that does not seem like a solved problem just yet.
- grzm 10y agoYes, there are still issues with electricity generation. Expressing this as just pollute upstream ignores or dismisses the efficiency improvements of large scale power generation over per-vehicle internal combustion engines.
- Qwertious 10y ago"Electric cars just pollute upstream" Not quite true - generating upstream is much more efficient, since the power plant doesn't have the weight restrictions that a car (which needs to haul itself around on four wheels efficiently) has. So even if power plants didn't ditch fossil fuels, electric cars are largely a step up. That said, we are moving heavily towards renewables, and charging isn't time-critical so peaking power sources like Wind will be more than good enough.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoLess parking space though, the self-driving car can drive off after dropping you off.