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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I drive a scooter.

Friend and coworker of mine was recently in a deadly accident on her way to work on a scooter. Those vehicles are great but on a road that is still primarily built for cars (and is now inhabited by ever more massive giant pickups) it can be a serious safety risk.

you need to get people out of personal vehicles on onto public transportation

This is really the heart of it. It's an infrastructure problem. Frustratingly, this is the most difficult and time consuming problem to solve.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

1 year and 6 traffic collisions later (all the fault of the car drivers), I still drive a scooter (not the same one I started the year with) and do not have a car. I believe that I do not have brain damage.