Imagine being AFAB and having your car snitch on you cause their AI detected the car left Florida and parked near an abortion clinic in ankghed state. Keep in mind States are researching systems they will help them get this data automatically as it happens or tech companies might start automaticlly reporting if to avoid increased liability in these states.
Even if we assume this is true, that’s literally meaningless - you can be attacked anywhere by anyone for any reason. Your comment implies this is a common occurrence, which it isn’t.
This is awesome because the point of this meme template is that Patrick has bad ideas, just like how divesting totally from cars in the US is a bad idea.
IDK what the culture is like at your school, but if you’re feeling motivated consider offering to organize a group ride to school to encourage others to join in. It could just start out as a one-time or once a month thing and increase from there if there’s enough interest.
It would be a similar process to organizing a club, though the exact steps would differ between schools. Ideally you’d meet up at a common central location for everyone and then continue onward to school, picking up other students along the way at other checkpoints.
I would prefer a middle ground where you have town homes for more privacy and room for families. Everything is still walkable, you preserved more green space, but everyone isn’t crammed into tiny pods.
There’s a study I posted below that says that bike lanes are just about always safer, didn’t really talk about sidewalk riding though. Where I live (not Florida) there’s a lot of blind driveways, so riding on the sidewalk can be dangerous for cars coming out of their driveway. (Second link describes that). Happy riding!
I am looking at this for about 5 seconds and it looks like safety and logistics nightmare. It’s so cyberpunk, except the entire genre was meant to be a critique of a decaying and hypercapitalistic society, not a guidebook. Not sure how cyberpunk became cool despite the fact that it is based upon a dystopian imagery of what a city would look like in a dehumanising future
Banning human-operated vehicles and private car ownership would be two huge, cultural hurdles to clear. So why don’t we do it in two steps? We can ban private car ownership right now to prepare. It would be pretty easy to transition over to everybody driving a vehicle from a car-share system. It could be phased in over time while we’re working on perfecting self-driving. We could probably reduce a lot of parking and vehicle demand, too, since private vehicles sit idle over 95% of the time. Then, when self-driving vehicles are ready, the operators of the car-share vehicles would be in position to switch them all over to autonomous mode, en masse.
If you think I’m insane to suggest that it’s politically feasible to just ban private car ownership, hey, that’s exactly the point I want to make.
I feel like we could do driverless buses right now if they had dedicated right of ways.
That’s another two step item where we could do the first step because we feel good about the way the tech is trending, and even if the tech fails, oops we only made a better life for everyone with dedicated bus lanes.
Yeah, I’d be down for this. Having the dedicated infrastructure would reduce the number of variables and allow the opportunity for sensors along the route for more checks so you don’t have to 100% rely on a black-box model. Plus, it solves one of the biggest operating expenses of buses (labor), which would make it much cheaper to run very high-frequency bus services.
As a bonus point, you could make them trolleybuses, so if they do something too crazy, they just lose power and stop.
Depends on the level of city service, but probably a good thing.
When I was in Ottawa, highschool students got city bus passes instead of yellow bus service. This allowed students to use passes at any time greatly increasing their freedom of movement. It let them go places without someone driving them, or a car of their own.
The OCTranspo also ran specials according to school hours and demand, these routes would be adjusted based on local demand each season to relieve pressure on normal routes.
This was at least 20 years ago, someone may have more recent information.
Tinier city have a really good tramway system too. Saint Etienne, Tours, Montpellier and many others have a great tramway system that is as good as a metro.
My biggest problem with them is the noise, but that can be solved with electric bikes.
The thing is, in what I imagine as an ideal city with everything nearby, a motorbike wouldn’t really be that useful as you’d never need to go faster than an electric bike could take you.
Stock, they’re not supposed to be that loud per regulation. Even Harley’s,a brand I particularly dislike. Modern bikes have a computer-controlled valve before the muffler to attenuate noise for bikes over a certain power. This way big engines can be quiet when rolling around neighborhoods, but give you full power when you’re on the track.
That people go wot on the highway, I also am not the biggest fan, but humans who like bikes, like going fast
I have a buddy that owns a big truck. It exists for one reason - to haul his trailer RV thing when he, his wife, and their FIVE kids go camping. Otherwise it sits there and looks pretty. He hates driving it, but the trailer is freakin’ yuge so yeah. It’s never, ever used as a commuter vehicle. The trailer has solar for power in addition to using an external generator that can use like, two or three different fuels.
He works from home, she doesn’t work and takes care of the kids/house. Their ‘commuter’ vehicle is a small hybrid SUV, again, to carry the five kids to and from school.
Their house is decked out in solar panels and they normally pay next to nothing for electricity, which they get from the grid via wind power because Texas.
EDIT: I need to stress the size of the trailer. The thing in it’s towable state is every bit as big as a semi trailer. If it was smaller, yeah, I’d agree (and so would he) that a smaller truck would be required. But he did his research and got a truck that can actually tow the thing properly. And again, he uses the thing maybe twice a year.
Do you know what people in Denmark, the Netherlands, and similar RV-heavy countries in Europe use to haul an RV with a family of four to six? Anything from a hatchback to a minivan depending on the amount of people. A truck is wildly inefficient for anything (except for the modest sized ones which hardly gets made anymore).
Not to dissuade your point or anything, but from reading their comment I’m picturing one of those large campers that you really only see in NA, like a tour bus that you have to tow. I’m no expert on towing capacity but I think one would actually have a use case for a large truck in that situation. Totally agree that they’re utterly overkill for just about any other situation though.
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