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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We make a 2 ton metal box, cruising at 70mph, and driven by basically anyone. The only way to do this while having a reasonable level of safety is to cram it full of features that make it heavy and expensive. This is fundamentally terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

People's needs for transportation will never cease to exist and there will always be some people that will need individual transportation so even in a world where only those who need a vehicle have one, I think it's only fair that they should be as safe as possible in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's fine; there's always special accommodations needed. Can we stop making it the default?