this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
135 points (97.9% liked)

Fuck Cars

9808 readers
192 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (8 children)

The math doesn't work. Physics doesn't work this way. Nothing scales like the proposed future of self driving cars. I know it was the vision of the 1950's to have a personal vehicle for everyone, but there's just no way to shoehorn the total volume of vehicles into a city based around people and people-scale areas. We've tried and all it does is make a dangerous, shitty, and unhealthy space with a single office building and miles of car storage around it.

This is just another money and power giveaway to Musk and the tech bros that bankrolled the campaign. The sheer scale of the damage it will cause to our cities is going to be generational, not to mention the damage to our planet's greenhouse gas budget.

[–] finder585 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Physics doesn’t work this way.

Nonsense! With a fleet of self-driving pods our valued customers can enjoy getting to work on time every time* with our premium packages starting at $399.99 /mo!

*Not guaranteed

*Terms and conditions apply

[–] lettruthout 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] pivot_root 3 points 5 days ago

*** introductory 50% offer for 30 days

load more comments (6 replies)