Neither are possible, so what else you got?

You’ve almost got it: enforcement, whether through cameras or cops that might end up shooting you, will not reduce deaths. We’ve had distracted driving laws on the books and they do nothing. The only thing that works is physically forcing people to slow down so that when they’re inevitably buried in their phone they…

More or less dystopian than 16k corpses?

They commit a tiny fraction of the human rights abuses the US does and their tight links with corporate interests have a fundamentally different composition than ours. Our “tight links” are that corporations run our country. Their “tight links” are that many corporations are state-owned or have governmental…

He xenophobically suggests the Chinese need to overthrow their elected leader, implying they are too dumb to pick their own leaders and don’t know a hell of a lot more about them than he does. Westerners generally know next to nothing about any governments, including their own, but love to tell other countries what…

You called them a kleptocratic mess. That’s a far cry from “not above reproach”. Every government is not above reproach.

It’s not a kleptocratic mess. Westerners would do well to understand how the Chinese political system works before spouting off. There’s a big difference between kleptocratic mess and perfectly moral. The truth lies in between, like with most governments.

US propaganda has turned even your average 1969 Charger guy into a virulent anti-China xenophobe. Sad!

Step 1: cut costs by going to touch screens that mirror phones

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!