Reject modernity, revert to Swedish brick car.
Comment on Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix
Hyperreality@kbin.social 11 months ago
Manufacturers are joining the era of disposable cars.
Consumers are joining the era of disposing of cars.
Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 11 months ago
MisterD@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Won’t be a problem because more and more people don’t want a car.
Car manufacturers know this and that’s why they are focusing on self-driving cars. Taxis will be replaced by robo-taxis owned by manufacturers and private firms.
Within 20 years, will be like a luxury like owning a horse
Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
robo taxis can’t respond to accidents and emergencies so its likely they won’t be affordable to operate for some time.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Robo taxis or not, kids don’t care to get their license.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Ironically cars are far more reliable now than they were at any point in the past.
1847953620@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree, I think the real problem is the cost to maintain one and the economics around it. For too long the expectation was to put as little money as possible into maintaining it and getting a new one some years later. We need to stop making them the massive status symbols they’ve become.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Many consumers treat their cars as disposable already
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ll be honest, they are?
There is no affordable car today that you can make any money today that you need to use. They require money in order to maintain it well enough to use.
Tires are expensive. Gas is expensive. You’ve got filters and oils and fluids to replace, and headlamps. Without the required disposables, a car is basically useless.
A house without running water, or power, or natural gas, or a furnace filter, or water softener, or lightbulbs, or toilet paper, etc. still provides shelter without all of those things.
A car gets you from point a to point b until it doesn’t. At that point it’s disposed of.
time_lord@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Get an EV. The only expense is tires. I’m hoping my ev can last the life of the battery, which is supposed to be around 22 years.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My next vehicle will be. no reason to have a gas anything. Unfortunately I’m in the middle of a divorce, so I have no idea how long it will be before I can make any positive changes. Fuck I don’t even know where I’ll be living in 8 months.