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Environment & Energy

hunter

(40,490 posts)

4. Automobile culture needs to die.

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 05:28 PM

Sep 2014

I want to live in a world where only rural people need cars, people who are growing our food or mining a few select natural resources.

Everyone else can walk or enjoy public transportation. Even disabled people with electric legs.

Take out your smart phone, tap the screen or say a few words, and an artificial intelligence will calculate how best to get there, anywhere on earth, and maybe send a self-driving car to pick you up.

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Tesla Trumps Toyota: Why Hydrogen Cars Can’t Compete With Pure Electric Cars [View all] caraher Sep 2014 OP

Chevy Spark Is Unobtainable In Most Of The US cantbeserious Sep 2014 #1

As are many of the vehicles on that list caraher Sep 2014 #2

Message deleted by DU the Administrators nationalize the fed Sep 2014 #3

What is the lifetime of any car? caraher Sep 2014 #6

I felt compelled to check the sources for some of those charts. "Well to Wheel" efficiency my ass. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #16

Automobile culture needs to die. hunter Sep 2014 #4

I agree caraher Sep 2014 #5

'Jet Setters' need to be eliminated first. quadrature Sep 2014 #9

If we don't solve this problem, Mother Nature will in her billions of years, very old ways. hunter Sep 2014 #10

A self-driving car to pick you up? GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #11

I'm not thinking something like a New York Taxi driven by a robot... hunter Sep 2014 #12

FCEVs are an attempt to maintain a fueling infrastructure stranglehold. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #7

Honda proves you wrong nationalize the fed Sep 2014 #13

How much for a home filling system? What's the efficiency loss versus EVs? NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #14

Bernie Sanders Julian_Cox May 2015 #17

Welcome to DU gopiscrap May 2015 #18

Excellent post! notemason May 2015 #19

I'm not Elon Musk Julian_Cox May 2015 #21

But we can make Hydrogen from the Bullshit! mackdaddy May 2015 #20

The infrastructure growth requirements are daunting for hydrogen caraher Sep 2014 #8

I agree. There's a place in the energy world for Hydrogen, but it's not in passenger vehicles. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #15