OK Ford Prefect, just keep that thumb pointed up.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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That Ford Prefect is one Hoopy Frood that really knows where their towel is!
Cars are not living organisms, are not species, and they serve us in every way, not the other way around.
Braindead take.
You are an extremely literal person, aren't you.
In your corner of the planet maybe.
Ghere comes to mind a Man who travelled from beteigeuze and mistook Cars for the dominant species. So he took the inconspicuous name of Ford Prefect.
It's not just the car, it's the whole system from the oil well upstream, through the car up to the malls and road system that need oil and subsidize it downstream: it's all infected with car brain, interdependent and self-reinforcing with a feedback loop. It's only going to stop when something breaks.
There is more parking sqf per American car than there is housing sqf per American citizen.
Nice format
uh actually im pretty sure ants or beetles or whatever are dominant
Reminds me of this 1960's cartoon where the Martians look at earth and mistakenly (or not) believe that the automobile is the dominant life form and humans are its parasites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyQ3SEb9GTA
I'm pretty sure there are fewer cars than people. However, I do know for sure that there are a lot more chickens than people by some multiple.
what about the direction of making cars better?
> biodegradable / resuable components
> carpooling
> more efficient energy usage
add more? cars are here,so can we make better use of them?
For within cities, I think epectrified public transit + micromobility + walking is a far better option, because cars are just insanely space-inefficient, which is why traffic is an unavoidable beast in any city that reaches a certain size. But for rural areas, things like this I think are a move in the right direction: https://aptera.us/
OK, but have you heard of smartphones?
Cats?