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> We will need more roads, more cars and that will produce more pollution. Nope. Less. Cars-per-person will nosedive from almost 1:1 in the US right now to may
by jaggederest 14y ago
> We will need more roads, more cars and that will produce more pollution.
Nope. Less. Cars-per-person will nosedive from almost 1:1 in the US right now to maybe 1:5 - that means the embodied energy wasted on cars will go down. Per-mile energy costs will go down too, if cars are driven efficiently.
It also enables the large-scale conversion of the US car fleet to electric propulsion. Cars can recharge themselves and aren't range limited because you can swap cars rather than waiting.
It's huge. It's as big as the invention of the car was. All the human hours wasted on moving things from A to B will gradually go away.
- visarga 14y agoImagine the delivery systems - FedEx, DHL, etc. Fresh food every day delivered from the farm? Not a problem any more. Also, regarding pollution - traveling salesman algorithm optimizations would reduce the distance travelled and CO2 emitted for the same outcome.
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoThat's a lot of ifs, and making a lot of assumptions. We don't have this kind of time. For God sakes, please snap out of your delusion.
- r0s 14y agoYou're deluded if you think car culture in the US can change significantly anytime soon. Call me a cynic, and I'll call you a fool. If you want to throw around platitudes, why not address the real problem: uncontrolled population. Or does that make you uncomfortable?
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoNo Mr.Pot, overpopulation isn't the problem. Greed and misallocation of land and resources is the problem. Too many cars is a problem. And you calling the kettle black is a problem. I don't drive, you do, therefore you are uncomfortable with the reality that you are destroying the environment and the air and shifting the responsibility elsewhere.
- r0s 14y agoNo, allocation of resources depends entirely on scarcity, because no working system of fair distribution will ever happen in the real world. Unless you rely on charity to take care of everyone, which I guess is your solution. More likely you haven't thought about it. Cars don't have to be internal-combustion. You have no moral authority, just shrill accusations. Your lack of driving is a lame dodge for your destructive, hypocritical, blind consumerism; which is doing far more damage than a car ever could. Feel free to defend your lifestyle here and pretend you don't shit all over the third world as much as the average American. You're fooling yourself though. Either you work for a company that does a ton of environmental damage, or your parents do, and they pay your bills (more likely). You pay taxes to a government with a massive military machine that destroys the environment and subsidizes the worst companies. But maybe your lack of car makes you special.
- jaggederest 14y agoThe correct term for his arguments is 'hair shirt green'.
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoYou don't know what you're talking about. I don't live in the US.
- r0s 14y agoI sure wherever you live you're shitting on the third world just as much as the US.