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Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts
SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
could hurt pedestrians and cyclists
I dare you to convince me that anyone still buying Tesla would not see that as a benefit. That’s going to be the number one selling point of this thing after articles like this make their rounds.
chakan2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why the fuck do people hate on the one class of people using the most efficient form of transportation that also provides exercise in a world that can’t stop spewing greenhouse gasses (For electric cars, those greenhouse gasses are being spewed at the power plant instead of from the car itself) and people don’t get enough exercise?
Fucking. Madness. Cyclists should be applauded and not targeted.
chakan2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ll give you an honest answer. I live in a rualish area. There’s a 2 lane highway that’s roughly 50 miles from my city to another one. 55 and a lot of blind curves. Farmers in semi trucks use that road all the time for hauling stuff.
Every summer there’s a pack of cyclists that try that route. They barely do 25. Every summer one of them does on one of the corners. You simply can’t stop a semi fast enough when something is doing half the speed limit, especially on a sharp corner.
They’re a fucking menace. There literally hundreds of miles of trails to ride in my area, but they have to be on that one particular road. They’re simply the most self centered assholes in the universe IMO.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
You simply can’t stop a semi fast enough when something is doing half the speed limit
How does that make absolutely any sense?
“I couldn’t stop fast enough because they were going too slow!”
More like you’re following far too closely.
hperrin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That sounds like a problem with your county. If that many people are dying, wouldn’t it be worth building a separated bike path?
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah,itd be one thing if they were using it for transport and actually not blocking traffic and being safe about it, but none of that is true. They all think they’re Lance Armstrong or something, and its the tour de france. People have places to be!
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
For electric cars, those greenhouse gasses are being spewed at the power plant instead of from the car itself
I agree with you about cyclists but this is conservative misinformation that’s been debunked in a thousand different ways so I’d appreciate if you’d stop spreading it.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’d like to see the information debunking this. In my area, 89% of power is from fossil fuels. My naive understanding of this is that this will still generate emissions, although I would expect the capabilities of reducing harmful emissions to be much better at a power plant instead of having to build it into every vehicle. So my thinking is that emissions are still happening, just not necessarily where people are living and with better emissions management.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know about other cities, but locally we have a very nice and well paved city-spanning network of bicycle paths that are parallel to, but separate from, the city streets. And we have a group of guys on their $10k bikes who ignore these paths to ride three across in a lane during rush hour on roads that will beat their wheels square, ignoring all red lights and stop signs. They make it hard for me to ride, because I get associated with these people by virtue of riding a bike.
People don’t hate cyclists. They hate those cyclists.
This is of course excluding those who hate everything which isn’t horrible for the planet. They hate bikes, electric cars, smaller cars that don’t burn much gas, vegetables, and any woman with a spine.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Most efficient?
Human bodies are god awful at converting fuel to useful mechanical energy.
hperrin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure they meant most efficient in terms of emissions. Even if you count farting as emissions, bikes put out basically no emissions. You’d have to get 100% of your electricity from renewables to match them in an electric car.
misophist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure that would be relevant if my body was attempting to push an entire car to work every day. When I cycle to work, I’m carrying at most 15 kilos of bike and belongings with me. With the efficiency multiplier of gears and wheels, I believe my 8 kilometer trip burns about 200 kilocalories. I don’t think that much energy will move an entire 2000 kilo car very far at all, whether it’s powered with electricity or petrol.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
kattenluik@feddit.nl 11 months ago
You have serious issues and world view problems to even begin to think things like that about people.
Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 11 months ago
I mean yeah that could be it. Or more likely; they are joking.
kattenluik@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Why do you believe they are joking? What indicates that especially with this behavior being common?
Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It just read their other comments and realize they’re not.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I am a Tesla owner and a cyclist. It’s not a benefit.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Did you buy your Tesla recently, and would you buy one now if you didn’t have one already?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
No and yes. Find me an automotive CEO that’s not a giant POS and we’ll talk. It’s a great car, overall.
CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There’s giant POS and the there’s Elon Musk
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
How many others run a social media platform catered to fashists?