• @[email protected]
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    1313 days ago

    Follow the money. One makes the owning class unfathomably rich as it ties every living human to their transportation manufacturing. The other is so easy to repair you might need to just spend a few bucks on parts. Capitalists hate freedom.

    • @[email protected]
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      713 days ago

      It doesn’t feel very free when I’m required to own and operate one as the only practical means to get to and from my job due to a lack of public transportation.

    • FundMECFSOP
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      2313 days ago

      Feel free to post. Lemmy definitely needs more people contributing.

  • Yerbouti
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    13 days ago

    This meme is so accurate. It should be sent to the thrash radio hosts of Quebec City. These people are so idiot, they are fighting against a tramway, a 1 billion dollar project, that the entire country agreed to pay for.

  • @[email protected]
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    2213 days ago

    Cars has being a big industry in western countries for years. The decline of the automotive might be the good chance to get rid of them.

    • @[email protected]
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      713 days ago

      Or have small selfdriving electrical vehicles on demand only. Why don’t we have that? Anyone can build a super secure vehicle that plods along in the city at 20-30 kmh max.

        • @[email protected]
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          713 days ago

          That sounds really energy efficient! We should have networks of these. We could make them run at specific intervals to optimise traffic flow.

        • Agosagror
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          613 days ago

          Hey maybe those cars could be coupled together on the track, since they are going to the same place anyway.

        • Hildegarde
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          613 days ago

          steel wheels on steel roads has near zero rolling resistance, it is the future of automobiles.

      • @[email protected]
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        213 days ago

        I always think about the self driving vehicles when queueing in the car they would drastically cut the queueing time I guess.

  • gon [he]
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    6713 days ago

    I love smelling the fumes! I love the noise! Please, run me over, cars! I love getting stuck in traffic! Yes!

  • @[email protected]
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    613 days ago

    Some asshole is definitely going to ram one of those bicycle wheels.

    We need rain protected parking with barriers to protect the bikes from cars. Or just ban the cars from the road.

  • thanks AV
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    713 days ago

    That’s real freedom! Freedom to sit in traffic! My property tax is 1/50th of the amount required to repair the street to my house! The nearest grocery store is 4 miles away!