Pros of golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) replacing all private cars within a city:

  • Only goes as fast as a bicycle, so isn’t a viable suburban commuter vehicle, meaning you’ll probably only take it to the nearest transit station
  • Only goes as fast as a bicycle, so isn’t likely to kill people
  • Excellent visibility, so less likely to run over children
  • Much smaller and lighter, so building parking garages for park-and-rides would be a lot cheaper and less objectionable than with our current style of cars
  • Electric
  • Smaller batteries than jumbo EVs
  • Compatible with dense, transit-oriented city development
  • Could be installed with mandatory speed limiters

Cons:

  • Less profit for GM and ExxonMobil
  • @[email protected]English
    6•9 months ago

    I’m so sorry for what you had to go through. I live in a shithole like this as well (thankfully m moving soon). I’m sorry you had to leave the place you grew up in. I’m sorry that you have to see your country fall apart right in front of your eyes. Trust me, I know the feeling. I know how much it hurts.

    While a carless utopia and “just change it” are great ideas and all. Reality is far from that easy.

    Absolutely correct! Far from easy, but not impossible. The people in this community (like not fuckcars specifically, but progressives in general) are trying to do this.

    Also, they are not telling you specifically to give up your car. In fact, many of them use cars themselves. They are attempting to influence policy such that we can have transit centric infrastructure. Noone here would tell you to bike 10 hours to visit your mum.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      I’m sorry you’re going through it too. I visited last year, it was the first time in 3 years and I miss it so much, but know there’s no future there for me. I hope where ever you are going will be good for you. It’s hard leaving home.

      I now live in a place where I can get pretty much everywhere with a train, subway or bus, but I do still miss the freedom of having a car sometimes, especially when it comes to getting stuff from the hardware store, lol.