Dave MacFarlane
πππππ πΆππππππ πβThe whole idea that we should all own electric cars is ludicrous! β¦ The answer is public transit.β
βsing it, David Suzuki! Heβs live on CBC Radio in Canada, complaining about Via Railβ¦an angry old man after my own heart.
Liberty and Justice For All@straphanger what if we all drove 6000lb vehicles tho! We'd solve every problem
Garrett Wollman@straphanger I wonder how many people in the audience remember watching (are old enough to have watched) his A PLANET FOR THE TAKING miniseries (which is long enough ago to have fallen into Wikipedia's memory hole but IMDb says aired in 1985).
Falco SkyWolf@straphanger The *numerous* answers include:
Public transit
More work-from-home options
Walkable areas with nearby fresh, affordable food and all the essential amenities
AND for as many people who DO need personal cars to have electric ones as possible.
We'll never erase the personal car from everyone's life, but we can help make them less necessary.
@straphanger And by walkable, I mean that not only are amenities CLOSE, but that sidewalks are wide enough and smooth enough for wheeled usage- wheelchairs, walkers, strollers, etc.
Apicultor π@falcoskywolf @straphanger What if I told you that such a city exists?
That city is Barcelona.
Marion Grau@straphanger gotta love the man. He and his daughter were early adopters long ago and been in the fight all these years. Loved and used heavily his book on The Sacred Balance. Elements also help overcome forms of excluse anthropocentrism.
Giles Edwards@straphanger Hear, hear. If all the money poured into self-driving vehicles had instead funded subways, light-, and long-distance-rail, we'd be set.
(Granted, there are always risks of encountering Strangers on a Train, but that's a small price to pay for car-free convenience.)
Aethelstan@straphanger electric buses. Lots of small slow electric buses. (Rail options are a hideously expensive investment. )
Tony Novak@straphanger Some American cities like mine (Millville New Jersey) do not have a single bus, train, or other public transportation. So I think that some people make assumptions that wonβt work everywhere. I made the decision to move to electric vehicles for my business. It is very expensive and we do not have funding to do that yet.
Ned YeungYeah, EVs literally change nothing about our infrastructure and reliance on passenger automobiles, which is where most of our urban problems lie, making it dangerous and unhealthy for anybody else to just live, all while blocking traffic for logistics, deliveries, and emergency response.
The only thing EVs are good for is taking away just one harmful aspect of the great problems which cars produce, the smog. That is a far cry from addressing the problem. It's only a distraction.