A great graphic on the distortions of car-centric society.
The car-bias implicit in modern society
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby eldavo » Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:23 pm
It's profitable if the concentration of power lies with you and your buddies.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby Leaf T » Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:51 am
Do you have a link? It's too small to read.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby Calvin27 » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:00 am
My pragmatic hat say half of that inforgraphic is pro car bias and the other half anti car bias lol.
- Car utilization is not really a big deal. I think you'll find that other technology has low utilisation as well. This is a lose lose argument. If utilisation goes up, then you will argue as you do a phone, that we spend too much time in cars or on phones.
- Tank to wheel is legitimate imo. Somewhere along the line we decided that this is a car and these are the size constraints. Thing is it's too big and bulky imo.
- However, the engine losses are not really that big considering that we burn coal in most of Australia and then also have transmission losses.
- Safety and environment concerns are also legitimate. All I am going to say is imagine that a car was introduced a a new thing in 2018. It would fail miserably on the ground of requiring new infrastructure, too polluting and really unsafe.
- Car utilization is not really a big deal. I think you'll find that other technology has low utilisation as well. This is a lose lose argument. If utilisation goes up, then you will argue as you do a phone, that we spend too much time in cars or on phones.
- Tank to wheel is legitimate imo. Somewhere along the line we decided that this is a car and these are the size constraints. Thing is it's too big and bulky imo.
- However, the engine losses are not really that big considering that we burn coal in most of Australia and then also have transmission losses.
- Safety and environment concerns are also legitimate. All I am going to say is imagine that a car was introduced a a new thing in 2018. It would fail miserably on the ground of requiring new infrastructure, too polluting and really unsafe.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby P!N20 » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:45 am
Right click on image, open in new tab, or:Leaf T wrote:Do you have a link? It's too small to read.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby Howzat » Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:17 pm
Land use is one of the biggest issues. A lot of neighbourhoods around the world were bulldozed in order to replace houses with traffic jams.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby Leaf T » Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:37 pm
Thanks PIN. I tried that this morn but didn't work. Is ok now.
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Re: The car-bias implicit in modern society
Postby Calvin27 » Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:55 pm
There are lots of good articles and videos online that show the extent of the automotive bodies and how they managed to lobby government to effectively pay for road infrastructure. I mean can you imagine in 2018 what it would take to propose a big road to go through town for at it's time new technology? That's the modern equivalent of telstra asking the government to pay for NBN infrastructure...o wait...Howzat wrote:Land use is one of the biggest issues. A lot of neighbourhoods around the world were bulldozed in order to replace houses with traffic jams.
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