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Half the people in New York City don't have a car at all. Adding more cars in dense downtowns is not a solution; cars on streets just don't scale to that densit

Half the people in New York City don't have a car at all. Adding more cars in dense downtowns is not a solution; cars on streets just don't scale to that density. New York City needs fewer cars, not more. Given the longevity of the modern ICE car (15-20 years) it's going to take a long time to replace existing ICE cars in NYC. In rural places, replacing ICE with electric is surely a good thing. In cities, we need to scale down car use significantly, while scaling up walkability, bikeability, and public transit. Even if we switched every car and every gas station over to electric today, we'd still have to burn insane amounts of coal and natural gas to power those cars -- not to mention the microplastic pollution generated by tires and roads that is actually made worse by the increased weight of electric vehicles. The solution is fewer cars, and those cars that can't be replaced by other modes of transit ought to be electrified.

melling 4y ago
You probably aren’t gonna believe this, but I never said, for the people that don’t have cars to go buy electric cars I simply meant replace all gas cars with electric, and we’d have cleaner air
- vanilla_nut 4y ago
  Quote: > If everyone in LA and New York drove an electric car they’d sure have much cleaner air. Apologies if I misunderstood you. But surely you can understand how this statement sounds as if you're talking about every person in those cities, not just the current ICE drivers.
  - melling 4y ago
    English can be ambiguous, especially when written quickly online. To pass the Turing test, a computer has to infer the missing context. For example, “is this human really saying the solution is for every human being to buy an electric car ” or is he implying that people should trade in their gasoline cars for electric ones? Statistically speaking, how often do people say everyone should buy an electric car, even if they don’t own or need a car?

melling 4y ago

You probably aren’t gonna believe this, but I never said, for the people that don’t have cars to go buy electric cars I simply meant replace all gas cars with electric, and we’d have cleaner air

vanilla_nut 4y ago
Quote: > If everyone in LA and New York drove an electric car they’d sure have much cleaner air. Apologies if I misunderstood you. But surely you can understand how this statement sounds as if you're talking about every person in those cities, not just the current ICE drivers.
- melling 4y ago
  English can be ambiguous, especially when written quickly online. To pass the Turing test, a computer has to infer the missing context. For example, “is this human really saying the solution is for every human being to buy an electric car ” or is he implying that people should trade in their gasoline cars for electric ones? Statistically speaking, how often do people say everyone should buy an electric car, even if they don’t own or need a car?