Car tires shed quarter of all worldwide microplastics
Car tires shed quarter of all worldwide microplastics
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-...
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Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Electric cars are not THE solution.
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We need flying hover cars. Imagine if we could get rid of all the cement and asphalt everywhere. Also no more traffic jams.
A sci-fi nerd can dream.
do you genuinely imagine this working? like, you see what people are like driving cars on the ground, right? do you think people would actually manage to not get drunk and think it's a great idea to reenact 9/11?
The inherent problem of any car at all is that people should never personally need a personal vehicle worth thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to buy milk and eggs.
And only 1000x the energy usage!
And dramatically reducing crash survival rates.
And even maybe creating a sort of car-Kessler syndrome.
these will never be a thing. Noise
Just need room temp super magnets so that the cars can "float" at a particular level of the magnetosphere. Don't worry Mlon Eusk is about five minutes away from personally cracking that physics problem and will be selling cars utilizing it for generational debt tomorrow./s
@vrighter @Yawweee877h444 Safety fights pretty hard with noise for #1 reason.
Great idea! So long as the current safety laws for aviation are followed. That would disqualify most people from flying and dramatically reduce the number of personal vehicles in use.
Nah man, we need the tubes. Hop in a tube pod and ride the tubes to any destination.
We can move the tubes more efficiently by making them large enough for many people, then chaining the various tub- hold up we invented trains again
Do they at least look like crabs?
Revolutionary!!
We need a strict speed limit. 30mph should be enough for everybody.
No chance this will ever happen though.
honestly even that is significantly too high anywhere near where people live, what i'd go with is a default limit of 30km/h and a 60km/h limit on motorways, which should be constructed more like railways are: sparingly and with safe crossings (ideally grade-separated).
30km/h is enough to go a pretty generous distance in an acceptable amount of time, certainly enough for even the sprawliest urban areas, and the motorways extend how far you can go in an acceptable amount of time without significant downsides.
This is largely what the netherlands does and it works well.
@Swedneck @luckystarr The Netherlands doesn't have the sprawliest of urban areas, but that is because those just don't work, so don't have them ;)
Yes, 30/60 is pretty reasonable once driving isn't the only way for people to get around.
the netherlands has extreme urban sprawl as most of the country is one urban area :3
but yeah sure in the US you can add another tier of motorsuperhighways (that idiotic name is mandatory so drivers know how it feels to bike in london) with a 100km/h speed limit, to be built even more sparingly.
No chance Louis XVI would have given the people of France a decent standard of living either. Things change when enough people can no longer tolerate how they are or how they are going.