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I'm kind of stunned that we're just now getting a handle on problems with tire particulates. It's been roughly a century.
by cbsmith 2y ago
I'm kind of stunned that we're just now getting a handle on problems with tire particulates. It's been roughly a century.
- r00fus 2y agoConvenient for the auto industry that it's been overlooked for so long...
- cbsmith 2y agoVery.
- singularity2001 2y agoHow long did it take to become consensus that smoking is in fact not healthy?
- cbsmith 2y agoIt'd didn't take nearly that long for us to start to identify that there was a problem there. Making the case that it required a regulatory response definitely took really long, which I expect will happen again this time.
- lonelyasacloud 2y agoI'm not. Default assumption in the West is if it's not medicine and it doesn't kill immediately it's good to go. Some time later, usually quite a lot, a tiny group of independent scientists end up being interested enough to scientifically prove that bloody obvious scaling problem is a problem. But by that time usually much money and politics is tied up in it. To that mix, then add in legislatures that even when they are independent have processes and bandwidth largely optimised for the pace of change from the age of sail and we end up with an endless stream of doh moments. One glimmer of hope here is at least it looks like getting it sorted might take slightly less time than lead pipes.
- cbsmith 2y agoThere's been a ton of analysis on the safety of automobiles in the US. Does it really make sense that we got to leaded gasoline being a problem decades before tire particles?