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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cars: bad for the planet, bad for physical health, bad for mental health, bad for urban planning. What are they useful for again?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@coderade @mondoman712 transporting small numbers of people and small amounts of goods over long distances without a predefined timetable in areas of low population density.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm totally for better public transport infrastructure, but it's disingenuous to pretend there's no benefits to cars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m perhaps exaggerating, but yeah cars have some use cases. They are just aggressively overprescribed as the tool for everything rather than only as needed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

making auto companies a lot of money