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Brake dust is such nasty stuff, yet we place schools and homes right next to the rivers of pollution that we call highways. I'm hopeful that we will legalize th
by epistasis 1y ago
Brake dust is such nasty stuff, yet we place schools and homes right next to the rivers of pollution that we call highways. I'm hopeful that we will legalize the building of less car-dependent housing, but until then at least EVs will help.
- andrepd 1y agoExactly. EVs are a band-aid, but the true cure is simply viable alternatives to driving.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoYep. I’m finally in a place to bike to work and elsewhere and it’s remarkable how much I can get done without a car. But the infrastructure sucks and there’s so much room for improvement.
- lostlogin 1y agoLooking forward to your commute is so great. Have you treated yourself to a nice bike?
- SequoiaHope 1y agoI have a few nice bikes but I did recently get a 30 year old titanium mountain bike frame and I’ve turned it in to a city and dirt gravel bike. It’s super fun!
- andrepd 1y agoMoving to a place where I can bike anywhere safely has been one of the best changes to my quality of life. It's really not even complicated to do the bare minimum: whenever there are 2 or more lanes, fence one off with concrete dividers to make a bike lane. Whenever there's just 1, pave it with stones and add bumps, and cars and bikes can co-exist. Bang, I just made your city safer, healthier, and the car traffic quicker. You're welcome.
- cyberax 1y agoIt's the inverse. Bikes are a temporary 19-th century fix for the lack of easily available personal cars.
- piva00 1y agoCars are a 20th century fix for the lack of easily available, comfortable, and fast public transportation. It's a shame the USA got stuck in the mid-20th century on that front.
- cyberax 1y agoYep. Transit was invented to help move workers from massive factories into living areas. Definitely a 20-th century thing. And EVs are from the 21-st century. They are here to fix the utter inhumanity of dense cities, and eventually throw them into a dustbin of history.
- piva00 1y agoEVs are just a change in fuel, nothing else changes, it's ludicrous to think they will solve anything related to why cities become denser, I can't even comprehend the logical steps you have to take to think that. Dense cities exist because there's value in living close by to other amenities provided by dense cities. There's no way out of denser cities, amenities will pool around where more people live just by sheer economies of scale (serving more people with less infrastructure). You still have the choice to opt out of that, live far away and have more space, the trade-offs with or without EVs will be the exact same.
- cyberax 1y agoNo, the combination of densification turning toxic (see: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Manhattan) and self-driving becoming available will change that. > There's no way out of denser cities There is: tax dense office space. There are no magically unique "amenities" in dense cities that make life worth living there, for the vast majority of people. Theaters and museum visits are at most a monthly occurrence (if that). And specialty ethnic restaurants are usually not a deal-breaker. Everything else is now available online: specialty stores, interesting classes, art-house movie clubs, etc.
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- jimbob45 1y agoA lot of people need trucks for their work. Hispanics in gardening and construction in particular.
- lostlogin 1y agoWhy Hispanics?
- alpaca128 1y agoEurope has plenty of gardeners and construction projects too, but I see at most one pickup truck per decade and it is always someone who definitely doesn’t need one and drives like they’re in a mad max movie. If you think all truck owners actually need one, count how many of the ones you see are carrying some load and do the math.
- llampx 1y agoEurope has plenty of massive white vans.
- alpaca128 1y agoAnd how many of those are used by people who don’t need a massive white van?
- llampx 1y agoWhy does it matter whether you think someone "needs" a pickup or not? Align their crash ratings and NCAP values with every other car and the problem will take care of itself. Personally I have the huge white vans because they reduce visibility when driving as well as while parked. I live in a big city and its difficult to drive when there's a wall parked at every other intersection.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoI do agree, but I'd like to point out that EVs aren't necessarily car-shaped. E-scooters and e-bikes can do wonders in transporting people without so many of the issues that driving produces (e.g. congestion, tyre pollution, collisions etc).
- Helmut10001 1y agoJust adding: On highways, there will be less "breaking" vs. (e.g.) highly frequented intersections in cities.
- johnea 1y agoYou... definitely don't live in southern California 8-/
- blitzar 1y agoHow else are the Little Darlings going to get to school if not positioned by a highway?