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Not selling tanks as cars could also help. Especially with fatality rates
People don't even need car tbh. Motorbikes everywhere please. Zip zip, less traffic, everyone pays attention to road or falls and dies.
Yeah, no.
Those things are death traps and there's a reason why they're mostly prevalent in nations where people literally can't afford anything safer.
I live in Maine. Riding a motorcycle in the winter is not only highly unpleasant, it's borderline suicidal.
I'm all for 2 wheeled transport where it works, but anywhere that gets snow for months out of each year it's a non starter as a primary transportation mode
This might be the dumbest comment I have ever read on the Internet. That’s like 30 years of comments.
That's why I bought mine!
You would think killing off the stupid would improve the breed. But apparently the real world shows it does not. Besides, I ain't riding a motorbike at -40 Celsius or Fahrenheit or in 30cm/12" of fresh snow or in a thunderstorm.
Good luck transporting a couch on a motorbike.
Rent a truck for cheap
Motorcycle rider here. Yes, families with children will rent a truck anytime they want to purchase groceries, and when it’s raining. It’s not practical.
This is a stupid thread.
The maybe use public transport? If you REALLY need to use buy car - buy one.
Also: families were not mentioned before in this thread. Is driving around with your partner and 5 kids and a couch a daily occasion?
Lol, come here and use our public transport options before you speak. This entire thread is led by those laying wide-reaching proclamations while being unable to consider any situation other than their own.
So the answer would be to advocate for better public transport
No, not the answer. I don’t live in New York you clown.
Okay, then advocating for better urban planning and less urban sprawl. Unless you live in a rural area, you shouldn’t be required to go into debt to pay for a multi ton machine to be able to buy food. It’s odd that only in the last hundred years humans have stopped being able to function day to day without vehicles.
You all talk a big game, but I’ve been to about 20 countries so far in my life. Distributed all over the world. They ALL have traffic led by cars. I guess I haven’t been to Mumbai..
Your assumptions are wrong, and you live in fantasy. Get over it.
I’m not sure what your point is? I never said cars weren’t leading traffic. I think we’ve both kind of lost the plot here but my point was that cars aren’t a requirement to live. If they are in your city or area (outside of rural), then you should advocate for better transit and urban design.
Also note that I never said cars should be outright banned or anything of that sort
My point is the point I made up in my first post, which was to argue against the idiotic point that everyone could just use motorbikes, to which you continued to argue with. Here, in case you forgot:
Yeah no shit for families but for people that have the choice. Fuckin dumbass
Let me go ahead and quote the broad spectrum claim that came before mine:
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Like this?
I think personally I would go with this though
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(/s cause it is probably needed)
I retract my statement, this looks perfectly safe and effective.
Putting fewer people in danger than the pavement princess speeding though a yellow light.
And the exact reason that you don't need to buy a truck to transport goods once in a blue moon
Good luck transporting a couch in a car
average suv should have racks on top to strap it and depending on the model space in the back.