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Cycling is fine but it’s no car. Plus I live in a relatively rural area so I doubt I could get a lot done by cycling. I love the road+car paradigm and find nothing wrong with it to be honest. I don’t want to give it up for a lesser way of traveling, I want a top down fix for car pollution instead.



Makes sense, although your preferences wouldn't be sustainable if extended to the whole population. The only way to fix car pollution is for most trips to be made via more sustainable alternatives.


Theoretically if everyone is using electric vehicles and all the electricity is generated renewably (not that far fetched), why not?


Because cars are inefficient. So much so, that I'm pretty sure if you tasked an engineer to come up with the least efficient way of transporting people, they'd come up with something resembling a car.

Electric cars are a good step, but they only alleviate a few downsides of cars.




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