@faythofdragons @pineapple shitty PT is not the goal. Yes there are PT systems that are shit, that doesn’t mean good PT is worse than good individual car ownership (something I’ve never heard of), it just means shitty PT need to be less shitty.

@pseudo @jagged_circle It had a pretty good viewership in Australia too. I think it did pretty well in a lot of countries.

@Grass @muelltonne It really makes that much of a difference?

@Ghost33313 @Global_Liberty And that applies to 0 Cybertruck owners.

@9point6 @scrubbles the $500 a month for a second hand lease?

Converting that to Aussie, we’ll call it $800 a month. My wife visits the office twice a week, by Uber at 8pm her one way commute would be $42. That is safely an under estimate as peak traffic makes that much worse.

2 x 2 x 4 = 16 trips a month is $672 a month on taxi’s for that commute. A commute that is infrequent, and less than half the distance to the city from our suburb.

Yes that is before other car costs, but other trips too

@RandAlThor Australia first, we are already in the ESC ;)

@Almacca @Global_Liberty Yep, and someone should be in jail for it.

But also, nothing will happen, Tesla will keep failing.

@m4m4m4m4 @br3d Also “make things worse for drivers” can be things that sound bad but actually mean nothing. Closing half the lanes through a CBD has no impact on traffic, but it sounds really bad for drivers.

@Obelix @Treczoks bikes are outside and GPS is pretty cheap to receive these days too.

@singletona I’ve heard plenty about car centric design killing main street. Interesting what different parts people hear.

@GeneralEmergency probably, but it can be hard to see that context when your in it :)

Maybe it’s the general idea that main streets are dying in the concept of people should drive to every store, and stores that do this take away value from being able to walk between stores.

@jaybone I’d rather not have a 40m gap of nothing in the middle of main street.

@Pregnenolone I have trouble seeing the giant corp as the victim

@Pregnenolone Then don’t have a shop on main street

@lgsp bike helmets are pretty much useless :)

@MisterFrog ludicrous penny pinching.

@culpritus @krakenfury I mean they think that driving a car 4 hours to work is a sane solution.

@Doofytoe @grumpo_potamus When I commuted regularly rain on the way to work was a reason not to ride, the risk of rain on the way home wasn’t. Maybe if the office had a good shower I would have ridden to work in the rain too.

Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn’t the better interim solution.

While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.

It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.

@ltxrtquq @takeda (I can’t watch the video, so I’m going off just the image)

Imagine how pissed that driver would be if they were actually following what the driver probably thinks they should be doing: riding single file next to the kerb.

The long queue of bikes would prevent the driver turning onto the road for so long.