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> Putting two tons of highly toxic and flammable lithium into a car-shaped object just to commute one person a few dozen miles is quite literally insane from al
by oblio 3y ago
> Putting two tons of highly toxic and flammable lithium into a car-shaped object just to commute one person a few dozen miles is quite literally insane from all practical points of view.
And ICEs are powered by many thousands of mini explosions per minute with a side effect of producing an odorless gas that can kill us silently.
Everything can be scaremongered.
And personal transportation, as much as I wish wasn't the case, is a fact of life since 1910.
- tremon 3y agoWhat happened in 1910? The first automobile dates from 1886, and I'm pretty sure the horse&buggy personal transportation method predates it by several centuries.
- oblio 3y agoMass manufacturing. Almost everything became widely available, at least in developing and developed countries.
- vel0city 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T Technically 1908, but we can round. The first automobiles were practically toys for the rich. Cars didn't really become a "mass market" thing until ~1910.