All that being said, better car is still better than a worse car. I live near a big road, and it kinda sucks. Back then when all cars were emitting poison from a tailpipe instead of only some doing it, it didn’t just suck, it was a fucking nightmarish hell, dirty, loud, smelly, poisonous dark hell, and some people from my family died prematurely because of that.
I don’t think the community in my city can persuade carbrains to quit caring any time soon. They can convince them to start with being slightly less damaging, for starters.
it’s also important to remember that electric cars are heavier (you know, batteries) which increases road wear, tyre wear, and makes them more dangerous in collisions (and means they need yet more battery to push the extra weight, very fun).
Electric cars are really only strictly better if they’re also made smaller and lighter, electric cars are great but we should be treating 2-seaters with like 200km range as the norm.
Yes, a better car is a better car. That’s perfectly reasonable harm reduction logic.
I just would rather people not forget that that’s all it is, and know that there are much better communal solutions. Even if they seem utopian, they’re actually very sensible and pragmatic.
Materially speaking, we could start building a better world tomorrow morning. We don’t have to wait for tech to save us.
All that being said, better car is still better than a worse car. I live near a big road, and it kinda sucks. Back then when all cars were emitting poison from a tailpipe instead of only some doing it, it didn’t just suck, it was a fucking nightmarish hell, dirty, loud, smelly, poisonous dark hell, and some people from my family died prematurely because of that.
I don’t think the community in my city can persuade carbrains to quit caring any time soon. They can convince them to start with being slightly less damaging, for starters.
it’s also important to remember that electric cars are heavier (you know, batteries) which increases road wear, tyre wear, and makes them more dangerous in collisions (and means they need yet more battery to push the extra weight, very fun).
Electric cars are really only strictly better if they’re also made smaller and lighter, electric cars are great but we should be treating 2-seaters with like 200km range as the norm.
Yes, a better car is a better car. That’s perfectly reasonable harm reduction logic.
I just would rather people not forget that that’s all it is, and know that there are much better communal solutions. Even if they seem utopian, they’re actually very sensible and pragmatic.
Materially speaking, we could start building a better world tomorrow morning. We don’t have to wait for tech to save us.
That’s very true