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Cars are one of the worst inventions by human kind. Aside from the points mentioned in the article there is also many deaths by cars (traffic accidents) and the

Cars are one of the worst inventions by human kind. Aside from the points mentioned in the article there is also many deaths by cars (traffic accidents) and the huge amount of cars now days tend to saturate the roads and make mobilization a really slow process. My solution would be to get rid of cars all together an use only electrical trains driven by few professionals who are less likely to cause accidents; with fixed schedules (and speed) time management would be easier for everyone. And for short distances encourage the use of bicycles (witch also helps to the obesity issues)

dalke 14y ago
Before cars became commonplace, we used horses to help transport goods and people inside cities. Horses dump manure. A lot of it. Quoting from http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/ http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-th... : "A horse will on average produce between 15 and 35 pounds of manure per day. Consequently, the streets of nineteenth-century cities were covered by horse manure. This in turn attracted huge numbers of flies, and the dried and ground-up manure was blown everywhere. In New York in 1900, the population of 100,000 horses produced 2.5 million pounds of horse manure per day, which all had to be swept up and disposed of." ... "Of course, urban civilization was not buried in manure. The great crisis vanished when millions of horses were replaced by motor vehicles. "
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- chadmalik 14y ago
  Well then maybe they shouldn't have been using pavement and even more to the point, not packing people into cities. We should spread out and use things like horses because they are an environmental free lunch compared to the insanity of extracting fossil fuels so that fat assholes can sit in traffic for 2 hours a day to go sit in an office.
emmelaich 14y ago
I love comparing your comment to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872044 (kaiju: I love cars...) IMNSHO, Your comment is imbued with a moral view and assumptions about what cars have to be that makes it hard to advance the discussion. You can solve most of the problems of cars if you have small lightweight automatic cars that are optionally drivable (outside certain areas/roads)

dalke 14y ago

Before cars became commonplace, we used horses to help transport goods and people inside cities. Horses dump manure. A lot of it. Quoting from http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/ http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-th... : "A horse will on average produce between 15 and 35 pounds of manure per day. Consequently, the streets of nineteenth-century cities were covered by horse manure. This in turn attracted huge numbers of flies, and the dried and ground-up manure was blown everywhere. In New York in 1900, the population of 100,000 horses produced 2.5 million pounds of horse manure per day, which all had to be swept up and disposed of." ... "Of course, urban civilization was not buried in manure. The great crisis vanished when millions of horses were replaced by motor vehicles. "

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chadmalik 14y ago
Well then maybe they shouldn't have been using pavement and even more to the point, not packing people into cities. We should spread out and use things like horses because they are an environmental free lunch compared to the insanity of extracting fossil fuels so that fat assholes can sit in traffic for 2 hours a day to go sit in an office.

emmelaich 14y ago

I love comparing your comment to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872044 (kaiju: I love cars...) IMNSHO, Your comment is imbued with a moral view and assumptions about what cars have to be that makes it hard to advance the discussion. You can solve most of the problems of cars if you have small lightweight automatic cars that are optionally drivable (outside certain areas/roads)