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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy (ketanjoshi.co)
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[โ€“] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think you're right. I'd want pay-per-use, networked vehicles I don't own but can opt in to use. Also want "Call car" button in every home so if you need to go to work, get groceries etc, you push it an within 10 mins a vehicle rolls up for use.

I don't think it'll fly until we have reliable, safe self driving (so lol, not a Tesla) and we change our attitude towards what a vehicle is for, and why to own one.

Owing a vehicle today has been twisted into a statement of one's "rugged individualism" (coughs mass produced car coughs) and threats to this are an attack on "muh FREEDERMS". Just watch literally any dodge ram commercial, or anything for an SUV where a starry eyed child is being driven through a forest by parents in an SUV. It's an image, manufactured want. Not need.

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[โ€“] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

I agree. Realistically I think cars still have their places in society for people who work and stuff. But ffs let's put decent train and trolleys and buses services first, at least in urban area.