Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f

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• Dagrothus@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You must not be american. It is literally not an option here.

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  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please accept my most sincere condolences.

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    • confuser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ive always wondered how do y’all get stuff back and forth from stores? Like heavy things or items that are needed in bulk.

      Here the only way to get stuff yourself is with the car or ordering online, it isn’t normal to ship basic items also with things like doordash that is becoming mor normal if buying wood to make home repairs there is no shipping it to houses or walking with it.

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      • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        First, things are a lot more compact here. It takes me five to seven minutes to reach the nearest local supermarket on foot. That makes it a lot easier to shop at higher frequency but lower load - good exercise too. Of course, that won’t work for larger or special items. For larger loads, locally in Denmark, we’ve got these wonderful things. Obviously, nobody’s going to transport a new fridge or a 1-tonne pallet of wood briquettes on one of those. For that sort of thing, almost all retailers of such things do delivery. It’s more efficient. Instead of everybody having to own their own trucks that are used (relatively) infrequently, stores or manufacturers either independently maintain vehicles that are in constant use or out-source that service to companies specializing in handling logistics. It uses less resources for one company to handle maintenance of say, five vehicles servicing the needs of a hundred customers than for all those 100 customers to all have to own their own vehicles with the same capacity.

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess it’s great advice if you live in New York or Disney World. I have a forty minute walk to the nearest bus stop and depending on where I want to go in town and how many transfers it takes, it might take me 2 hours to get somewhere in my mid-side town.

    Meanwhile, I can reach anywhere in town in twenty minutes by car, and I can carry $800 of groceries in my trunk. And I don’t freeze my ass off in the snow.

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    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …And the cost of that convenience is now $2000 and a bunch of spyware.

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    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      New York or Disney World

      Got me

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that’s just sad. I have about 4 bus stops within a 5 minute walk. a bus transfer station 10 mins away, and a train station 15 mins away. I feel bad for americans having to rely on a car :/

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You stop at a bus stop here and youre getting stabbed or robbed. They’re very unsafe.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would they be American?

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• greenbelt@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Making them unaffordable for the majority by jacking up car insurance prices, seems like a super efficient strategy.

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