Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You.aaid the Lemmy catchphrase good job

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    which is?

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Complements. The reason we’re stuck in this auto-dystopia (are we auto-asphyxiating? ;-) is people wanting one size fits all infrastructure. Let’s apply this more intelligently this time - recognize that some areas are more built up than others. In general that can be a good thing, but we need interconnected services for everyone. That does include cars in many areas, although I agree a worthwhile goal for cities/town centers is that people not need a car

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason we’re stuck in this auto-dystopia (are we auto-asphyxiating? ;-) is people wanting one size fits all infrastructure.

    The reason the US is a car dependent dystopia is because they let the auto industry dismantle a shitton of public infrastructure.

    Just because you build public transport infrastructure doesn’t mean you can’t have your car, look at switzerland, netherlands, they have good public transport/bike infrastructure and still have cars.

    Having great public transportation actually makes it better for people who only want to use cars, because it takes off a lot of people from the road who now have alternative options.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy based

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      public transport should be literally everywhere, why shouldn’t it?

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      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s really efficient in densely populated areas but inefficient in sparsely populated areas.

        While it should be everywhere eventually , the focus should definitely be on cities first.

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    • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also want to add that if public transit was more more common; it would EVENTUALLY spread to the rural areas just in a more limited fashion. Also, towns do build up as they age, it’s not like they are static.

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• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need the incrementally more eco-friendly options as well. Most pickup truck driving office workers won’t suddenly get a bike and change their ways, so a more eco friendly personal vehicle is probably a lot more likely to reduce emissions for that demography.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am not sure that buying a brand new car offsets more than just using your existing car, so there is time to make those people change their ways

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• IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  MAGLEV TRAINS OR GTFO!!

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    way overkill and not needed in most places.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sorry but if maglev trains are an option I want my damn maglev train.

      Anyways since we already don’t have public transport we might as well not have magic magnetic hovering public transport.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Says someone who lives exclusively in a city

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  • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trains and trans are a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to transport the masses. It can work to a surprisingly small populations as evidenced by all of the small disparate towns in Switzerland, Norway and Denmark that depend on them.

    Of course no solution works everywhere, we can’t depend on cars everywhere but they should not be our first option.

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    • buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US used to have robust systems of transit, but they’ve largely been demolished

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actually the US has plenty of robust rail connections but they’re almost exclusively used for cargo.

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    • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People seem to forget that there was a time before cars, where people had to rely on public transport alone.

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  • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most people live in a city. In Australia and NZ it’s around 90%, in China, Europe and Canada for sure over 50%.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t actually, I live in a small town, and I see american style suburbs popping up and it’s fucking disgusting

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  • Strykker@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man over 90% of the population is most countries lives in a fucking city.

    Helping them get off cars would be a massive improvement.

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