• Nugget@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Agreed, but even with fewer cars, having the remaining ones be electric is much better. Quieter (at low speeds) and no fumes

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      1 year ago

      So there’s no point in improving technology then? Shall we just go for highly polluting SUVs, just fewer of them?

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      1 year ago

      Before cars were common, despite bicycles, trams, and trains all existing for a long time, our cities were filled with horses. Horses have this habit of shitting everywhere, and cars were welcomed because they made the cities cleaner and less disease ridden.

      The horses filled a need that other things could not. Cars then filled that need. That needs still exists today, like it or not. It’s best we make them as clean as we can.