cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20009882
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20009882
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
We need flying hover cars. Imagine if we could get rid of all the cement and asphalt everywhere. Also no more traffic jams.
A sci-fi nerd can dream.
Nah man, we need the tubes. Hop in a tube pod and ride the tubes to any destination.
We can move the tubes more efficiently by making them large enough for many people, then chaining the various tub- hold up we invented trains again
these will never be a thing. Noise
And only 1000x the energy usage!
And dramatically reducing crash survival rates.
And even maybe creating a sort of car-Kessler syndrome.
The inherent problem of any car at all is that people should never personally need a personal vehicle worth thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to buy milk and eggs.
We need a strict speed limit. 30mph should be enough for everybody.
No chance this will ever happen though.
honestly even that is significantly too high anywhere near where people live, what i’d go with is a default limit of 30km/h and a 60km/h limit on motorways, which should be constructed more like railways are: sparingly and with safe crossings (ideally grade-separated).
30km/h is enough to go a pretty generous distance in an acceptable amount of time, certainly enough for even the sprawliest urban areas, and the motorways extend how far you can go in an acceptable amount of time without significant downsides.
This is largely what the netherlands does and it works well.
@Swedneck @luckystarr The Netherlands doesn’t have the sprawliest of urban areas, but that is because those just don’t work, so don’t have them ;)
Yes, 30/60 is pretty reasonable once driving isn’t the only way for people to get around.
Great idea! So long as the current safety laws for aviation are followed. That would disqualify most people from flying and dramatically reduce the number of personal vehicles in use.
do you genuinely imagine this working? like, you see what people are like driving cars on the ground, right? do you think people would actually manage to not get drunk and think it’s a great idea to reenact 9/11?