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No mode of transportation is truly inherently better since they all have unique strong and weak points, but... Cars as the main method of transportation are ob
by Mawr 3y ago
No mode of transportation is truly inherently better since they all have unique strong and weak points, but...
Cars as the main method of transportation are obviously not good. They're too inefficient, no matter how you look at them. Manufacturing, infrastructure requirements, footprint per person, energy use, impact on human health and the environment. Cars suck.
People use whatever's most convenient and that's realistically going to be whatever the government has invested in the most.
The more car dependent a society, the more degenerate it is. This is hard to understand due to how car-infested most of the world is. Watch some videos by the Not Just Bikes channel on youtube [1] to see what the world could look like instead. Here's some poignant examples (direct links): [2][3][4][5].
And here's an obscure video that exemplifies what's wrong with car culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWi4gHm6pjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWi4gHm6pjQ. This is what a brainwashed society thinks like.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes
[2]: https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc?t=464 https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc?t=464
[3]: https://youtu.be/AOc8ASeHYNw?t=204 https://youtu.be/AOc8ASeHYNw?t=204
[4]: https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw?t=361 https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw?t=361
[5]: https://youtu.be/c1l75QqRR48?t=290 https://youtu.be/c1l75QqRR48?t=290