• winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    You’ve never driven over a shitty dirt road eh? Top speed is like 5mph, mud, ruts, potholes so deep you bottom out, etc

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      4 months ago

      That’s pretty much the point. We could’ve had vehicles that could drive over rough ground, but they opted to make flat roads and rubber tires, both of which are causing issues environmentally and congestion.

      My whole thought experiment is : If you were to settle a brand new world, would you repeat the concept of roads and rubber tires?

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        4 months ago

        We wouldn’t bother with independent motorized transportation. It would be trains for between cities and public transit so ubiquitous that bikes would be exiled strictly for rural exploration outside of cities.