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We need to go back to horseback riding. It's inevitable.
by emsign 3y ago
We need to go back to horseback riding. It's inevitable.
- itishappy 3y agoI suspect horses come with their own health issues. Can you imagine a city parking garage for horses?
- fragmede 3y agoYou mean a stable? They had those in ancient times in castles. A multi-story stable is funny to picture, but I don't see why not.
- itishappy 3y agoI do indeed mean a stable! I don't imagine the particulates coming out of stables are going to be all that great. Also, my car doesn't get sick if I park it next to somebody's beater.
- fragmede 3y agoThere are classes of parking garages too. I’m not parking my hypothetical dream Ferrari next to some poor person’s beat up Honda civic from the 90’s to get dinged and the windows broken. The underground parking garage at Apple must be astounding.
- saagarjha 3y agoYou mean the place where people park their dream Ferraris next to some rich person’s beat up Honda Civic from the 90s?
- itishappy 3y agoRight, and I'm going to park my horse right between them!
- decafninja 3y agoI interviewed at a few Silicon Valley campuses in 2017-2019. I was surprised at how…humble the cars in the parking lots were. Then someone told me the Porsches remain garaged at home until the weekend.
- quesera 3y agoI'd take a stable over a parking garage any day. But yeah, the excrement does accumulate.
- fsckboy 3y agoback when we all rode horses, falling off of them was at the top of the accidental death risk for the average person.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> for the average person. For the average horse rider perhaps but not the average person. Most people were never on a horse.
- fsckboy 3y agoif enough people on horses fall off and die, the average could still win over the population. I don't have the original statistic I saw in front of me, but that's how I interpreted it. and in agricultural times in the US, I'd say most people were on horses.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> in agricultural times in the US, I'd say most people were on horses. But most people weren't riding them. A horse and cart is much more efficient.
- trgn 3y agoI wonder if this is more a wild west pulp fiction meme, than actual reality. A lot of people today are collateral damage of cars, getting maimed, mutilated, crippled, killed, it's pretty indiscriminatory, drivers and bystanders alike suffer its consequences. It's hard to believe horses had the same blast radius proportionally speaking.
- undersuit 3y agoOr just walk. America was a horse powered nation before the automobile, not a horse riding nation.
- drewzero1 3y agoAnd busy streets once again knee-deep in manure? Horses aren't exactly zero-emission either. Though realistically, a lot more people walked. Not everybody could afford to feed or care for a horse.
- tzs 3y agoFatality rates for riders, passengers, and pedestrians from horses in the early 20th century were actually comparable to those for cars in the in the late 20th century. I doubt the rates would be as high now if we went back to horses, because a lot of injuries that would have been fatal around 1900 would be survivable today, but I bet a lot of people would be surprised by how high the rates would be. Some articles: https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horses https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horse... https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-per-capita-in-horse-accidents-in-nyc-in-1900-than-in-auto-accidents-today/ https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...
- kube-system 3y agoThe New York Horse Manure Crisis: https://www.pbs.org/video/new-york-horse-manure-crisis-ploayx/ https://www.pbs.org/video/new-york-horse-manure-crisis-ploay... > New York City was a crowded mess: no one could figure out what to do with all the horse manure, urine, and rotting horse carcasses on the streets spreading disease. New York had over 100,000 horses producing over 2.5 million pounds of manure every day. Fossil fuel powered trains, electric streetcars and internal combustion vehicles were seen as the clean-energy alternative.
- dboreham 3y agoNot so sure about this as I'm highly allergic to horses.