I’m looking at you Mazda.

The people most recently educated about driving are the ones most likely to get into accidents. Is there any evidence that continuing education would result in fewer crashes? I see this suggestion all the time but it’s never accompanied by evidence. I don’t think you need continuing education to know that distracted…

These are incredibly rare events. The number of lives saved by speed limiters (and breathalyzer interlocks) would vastly, vastly exceed the lives saved by the ability to exceed speed limits.

Our insistence on using the “market” through tax credits to get where we want to go is so goddamn stupid. Aside from the fact that EVs aren’t going to do much of anything to “solve” climate change, if you want to incentivize their purchase, just cut people a check if they buy one. And oh yeah, don’t give it to rich…

Hot take: They should install speed limiters. There is no reason for a car, on public roads, to be able to exceed the speed limit. It would be a massive safety win. If you want to race, go to a track.

There’s a bondo and chickenwire version:

Being dependent on a car for everything is slavery, not freedom. It’s massively expensive and a disaster for the environment. It’s almost impossible to realize this until you experience the alternatives. I’m not a huge fan of public transport personally, but that’s because it absolutely sucks in the US. It’s…

If we dedicated 1/10th the resources that are going in to EVs, from an investment standpoint, on getting people out of cars as much as possible, we might actually make a dent in climate change. That’s not profitable enough though. 

It should be plainly obvious by now that capitalist “justice systems” exist to penalize us and protect them.

Slipper slope fallacy. Try again!

Been commuting by ebike for about 5 years. Sold one of our cars shortly after starting. I usually manage to put about 2000+ miles on it each year. Between gas, insurance, car payment I’m saving enough to essentially buy a great ebike every year. Pays for itself quick!

Trying to make a moral argument for canceling a race in a series that features events in the US, Brazil, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, etc. seems like a huge stretch to me.

Your freedom ends where it impinges on mine. Very simple thesis by which all of these should be adopted, as well as making it IMPOSSIBLE for cars to go above the speed limit on public roads. 

I think the issue with proprietary input devices like on the Mazda is the time it takes to master it. We had one as a rental and I HATED it because it was insanely distracting to use compared to the interface I’m used to. Ultimately, all infotainment systems are distracting whether it’s touchscreen or touchpad or…

Long haul trucking is dumb. It’ll be dumb if it’s done in a hydrogen-powered truck or a BEV. The solution is trains! C’mon people!

I wasn’t really making a comment on the likelihood of a sensible transition, just talking about what it would look like. My comment was essentially pointing out that the “free market” has done a piss-poor job of allocating resources if resource allocation is judged by anything other than satiating the desires of…

Sure, but many people shouldn’t be driving trucks. They’re bigger and heavier and thus more dangerous and produce more tire pollution, which arguably is more damaging than tailpipe emissions at this point.

It’s easy to imagine something more chaotic than millions of people fighting over a desolate charging infrastructure, yes.

Right, and it’s also obviously not the goal. If everyone were to switch to an EV tomorrow it would be utter chaos. Not to mention the fact that we don’t even have the capability of building enough EVs for everyone.

Look up “Tendency of the rate of profit to fall”.