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Wait, how much environmental damage does road salt cause?
epa.gov link
turns out just throwing a fuck ton of salt into the environment has negative effects
It also destroys the very infrastructure that it's trying to clear snow from. We eventually need to recognize that rubber wheels on asphalt simply isn't a very efficient or durable method of moving large amounts of stuff long distances. Steel on steel is superior in both efficiency and longevity.
Slap some locomotive wheels on my Accord.
Road-rail vehicles are totally a thing! Mostly for doing inspection and maintenance on rail corridors.
Yes, but private trains is not a scalable thing. Putting these on everything solves no problems
Which is why the real solution is PUBLIC transit, not private motor vehicle ownership of any kind beyond small electric personal mobility like an e-bike or scooter.
Of course. An actual train is better than some hybrid boondoggle like a bus train hybrid
The reverse is also a thing, btw. Though it still uses special rail. But some Russian evil geniuses have made a road drive-able train before, and nobody even knows what for.
I disagree here, there's in here for cars that's hard to do otherwise. I think the problem is more that that is also not at all what cars are primarily used for. Like even in the US 60% of trips are under 6 miles and average occupancy rate is 1,5 persons. That's a bike ride.
one hummer ev or several thousand e bikes