tag > fuckcars
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We have ruined our cities for parking lots. Mapping parking in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (via)
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Software is eating the automotive world. So are software defects and software integration issues. (As well as software workarounds to try to address other defects.)
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"Technological Solutionism is THE main challenge people and the planet face all the time we are still here" - BrianSJ3 (Related Research: "Challenging “Resistance to Change")
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Billionaire-backed mining firm to seek electric vehicle metals in Greenland
Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has signed an agreement with London-listed Bluejay Mining (JAY.L) to search in Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles.
Comment by @wrathofgnon: "Electric vehicles was never about saving the environment. It was always just about prolonging the status quo for a few more years of recklessly burning through every remaining ecosystem, every remaining energy source. And in the end it was all for nothing."
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Electronics systems as percent of total car cost
And yet cars keep getting bigger and bigger - dumber and dumber...
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher
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Had to leave a comment on (yet another) stealth ad video about self driving cars..
"While you US guys keep making sleek payed advertising clips for (self-driving) cars, the rest of the world had enough of cars, full stop. Self driving cars are still cars - dangerous, polluting, city destroying, loud metal boxes mostly filled with air - Highly inefficient legacy methods of transportation. A future worth aspiring to are cities free of all cars: Cities for people, not machines. The Europeans and even more so the Chinese have gotten the message, tripling down on high speed trains instead, which have a far superior space utilization profile than any car will ever have. Think bicycles, remote-working and walkable cities - not even more cars with just with some AI magic on-top which takes away the last few driver jobs (Uber & co) from people who are already struggling to make a living."
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Destroying the city to save the robocar
“Autonomous vehicles are the right answer to the wrong problem. The wrong problem is: How do we make cars better? The right problem is: How do we make cities better? The real disruptor is the bicycle, not the robocar.”
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The arrogance of space: “18 bikes can be parked in the place of one car, 30 of them can move along in the space devoured by a single automobile..."
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Drivers Are 24% More Likely To Speed When Using Adaptive Cruise Control (arstechnica.com)
Comment: With greater power comes greater responsibility. For more context on this topic, see this talk i gave a while back: "Augmentation, Amputation, Dehumanisation - Towards Life Centered Design"
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If SUV drivers were a country, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions...
While car sales stagnated worldwide, SUVs rose to make up almost half of all passenger vehicle sales in 2018 - making SUVs the second-largest contributor to the increase in global carbon emissions from 2010 to 2018, exceeded only by the power sector .
