If you own a Tesla I loath you because you support Musk with said purchase.
@MrGoat Funny enough, I'm actually not a fan of EVs in general... because I hate all automobiles.
I just hate fossil-fuelled automobiles even more.
The simple fact is that no automobile-based transportation system can ever truly be environmentally sustainable for many reasons.
Example: kinematics; if a vehicle weighs, in common usage (commute), about 15.6X the useful transported weight [avg vehicle weight / (avg person weight * occupancy) = R], & starts/stops often, it's unavoidably wasteful.
@MrGoat Combine that with the energy/resource costs - and ensuing environmental impacts - of producing, maintaining, storing, and eventually disposing of or recycling the vast numbers of cars needed to make automobile transportation work, and it becomes very clear car-based transportation is *catastrophically* wasteful.
Then there's the absolutely astronomical rate at which cars brutally murder nearby people - be they driver, pedestrian, cyclist, or even just breathing (tire pollution kills).
@MrGoat Then there's the (anti-)social impacts of driving; the environmental, psychological, and aesthetic harms of car infrastructure; the effect on wildlife; the amount of work car owners have to do to keep their car running/usable (irreplaceable time that could be better spent on family, friends, & other fulfilling things); the lack of scalability (traffic jams, slow travel)...
I could go on for hours, but suffice to say from an objective/societal perspective, *EVERYTHING* about cars is bad.
@IrelandTorin So much bad in the world lol - like cheese. =/ those damn slices in plastic.
@IrelandTorin @MrGoat
time for flying cars. We aren't think out of the box.
@JanetZumba_FalPals @MrGoat Flying cars share almost all of the problems of land cars, exacerbate many of them, and even add some new ones. Bad idea.
Aerodynamic flight is energy-hungry at the best of times, & flying cars safety concerns are even worse than land cars.
Eg: Imagine your family's sitting around the kitchen table in your house having lunch, & a flying-car-pilot's engine dies. They fall & crash through your roof at 240km/h. After the impact & ensuing inferno, there're no survivors.
@JanetZumba_FalPals @MrGoat Flying cars are also a terrorist's wet dream.
You're basically handing them a missile on a silver platter; all they have to add is a "guidance system" (which could be a real guidance system or remote control system, but most likely it'd just be a suicide pilot), and optionally also a warhead.
To horrible extremists and evil monsters, any aircraft can also be a powerful weapon; just look at the 9/11 hijackers or WW2's Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.
@IrelandTorin @MrGoat what's the best transpo to get from home to work, in your opinion?
@MrGoat @IrelandTorin
I wish this were possible. Transporter rooms(like star trek) in everyone's home.
@JanetZumba_FalPals @MrGoat In our existing society?
Depends on the city/town/area, but the societally, environmentally, & psychologically best option (for those who don't change jobs often) is probably to move as close as is feasible to one's work (or more precisely, to a location that minimizes the total distance one['s household] has to travel regularly), so cycling or even walking becomes viable... then to walk or cycle.
If stations are close to both ends, rail (trams/trains) is great too.
@MrGoat Well, I'm particularly passionate about the automobile issue, and perhaps my greatest lifelong dream is to see automobiles (ALL of them) at least mostly phased out of common use.
They might still have niche applications in rural use, but even most rural transport could be rail-ified... & it turns out similar size railway vehicles [or even, ironically, a car adapted to run on rails] are still way more efficient due to low friction w/ steel wheels on steel rails & can haul much more mass.