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"The roads are busier with near silent, zero tailpipe emission vehicles now" Seems like a nicer problem to wrestle with than "We have a bunch of young people
by CraigJPerry 6y ago
"The roads are busier with near silent, zero tailpipe emission vehicles now"
Seems like a nicer problem to wrestle with than
"We have a bunch of young people injured or dead on bicycles or as pedestrians each year"
Like, there's not even any contest as to which of those problems i'd rather face.
If i was to uncharitably re-frame your argument, it's simply pulling up the ladder to avoid future generations having an option to take up a new form of mobility.
- pmontra 6y agoThey might replace bicycles and scooters but not pedestrians. The distances done by car and by foot are different, at least in Europe. However anecdotally I have two friends whose teenager children had accidents with cars like that and zero who had accidents with bicycles. Anecdotally my score is 1-1 (with a "real" car.)
- KozmoNau7 6y ago> "We have a bunch of young people injured or dead on bicycles or as pedestrians each year" That is because of too many cars on the streets. We cannot solve that by adding more cars to the streets, electric or not.
- EL_Loco 6y agoSo if I'm run over by a car then part of it is my fault for not buying a car and choosing to walk instead?
- megablast 6y agoExactly. If everyone just drive huge suvs all the time, there would be no pedestrian or cyclist deaths. This is genius.