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Electric cars are still extremely polluting. Tire and break dust is the majority of pm 2.5 particulate pollution in US cities and there is a growing body of res
by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Electric cars are still extremely polluting. Tire and break dust is the majority of pm 2.5 particulate pollution in US cities and there is a growing body of research that shows reducing these emissions is a huge impact on our general cognitive ability and happiness (particulate air pollution makes us statistically significantly dumber). As with anything, I’m pretty happy with allowing what the market will support. Accurately pricing parking and making people pay the market rate for parking will drastically reduce car use. This is the plan is Paris (reducing free parking) We don’t need to ban cars, we just need to stop subsidizing them.
- chungus_khan 6y agoThere are also hidden costs in roads being clogged up with personal cars slowing commercial traffic.
- quotemstr 6y agoThese goalposts are moving at light speed. You'll always be able to find some negative effect of cars. What annoys me about new urbanist types is that they're so dogmatically anti-car that they won't even acknowledge the positives