“But tires”
Ban all vehicles over 5000lbs to start without a specialized license and extremely heavy fees to have them. EVs are dropping in weight daily, ICE vehicles have been increasing in weight to dodge policies. One is a means to an end, the other is a means to profit.
Profit for few vs humanity’s existance… which should we choose?
While I understand what I think your saying and don’t want to be to assumptioius, can you please explain how cars have a 'shorr term" benefit when we are looking at 60% annual possibilities of 10 month droughts annually. That’s the end of crops outdoors, likely the end of life outdoors
If you can’t drive to work, you won’t earn any money and you’ll die.
Chosing a safer way to get there is the point. If we got rid of all the traffic lights you’ll get to work and not die. More people would die on the way to work, but that’s the same concept is it not? Right now we have an “acceptable” death rate from car accidents that’s Increasing since about 2008ish. One of the reasons why is that we decided to make vehicles taller and larger for no reason other than to avoid regulations that were set on vehicles for environmental safety.
Basically we said “cars should have higher mileage to minimize damage to the environment” and someone said… well that’s unreasonable for larger vehicles, and then companies started making larger vehicles to fall into a category that would omit them from the higher mpg requirements. Also a 4" higher grill is associated over 20% increase on killing pedestrians.
Example: A 4 door Jeep Cherokee in 1994 was plenty big enough to carry a family of 4 and a load of groceries in the back.
1994 Dimensions: Length: 165.3" Width 70.5" Height: 63.2’ Weight: 3,357 pounds
2024 Dimensions: Length: 193.5" Width: 77.5" Height 70.8". Weight: 4,238 pounds
A more efficient engine would fit in the old Jeep… yet it is now more than 2 foot longer. More than half a foot wider and half a foot taller.
So now you need wider roads to fit wider lanes, and space houses out further to fit these cars as they build new areas. Larger parking lots, meaning more room between businesses, making it all inaccessible more and more, and the only reasonable way to get anywhere is by getting in a car.