When Horses replace electric is the circle complete?

Horses are also privacy friendly, unlike your smart car

That's what the horses want you to think... Who knows who they're selling your secrets to...
Damn horses...
I don't know, have you seen their creepy eyes? Who knows what they're up to when you're not riding them somewhere.

But does your car suffer from ulcers? And you can mend a flat tire - can you fix Dobbin's broken leg? And when your car back fires, it makes a loud noise ... when Dobbin backfires, he kicks you in the head.

Dobbin is capable of making new Dobbin's.
- Dobbin is also capable of miscarrying a new Dobbin .... when a car dies, it's less emotionally draining, unless it's a classic car that's over 50 years old.

Car breaks down.

"I am sorry, old pal.", I whisper as I load the gun.

If the car is old and rusty enough that's not entirely wrong. My dad has a truck right now that he's just driving until the next major breakdown; after that it's ~~going to the glue factory~~ getting sold off as scrap.

Horse good, car bad. We must return

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

When people tell me electric cars will never see mass adoption, I'll remember this.

3D TVs will totally be a thing too! You just wait!
- Just wait until VR goes mainstream
- Yeah but nobody actually believed that, even 3D movies weren’t good

Dobbin is a stupid name for a horse.

You're a stupid name for a horse.
- Well yeah. Who ever heard of a horse named Flying Squid?

You don't need a licence to ride a horse

You do need a shovel for afterward though.
- Maybe not on the street if you plan accordingly , but yeah at some point you are going to need one.

I would 100% prefer to have a horse name dobbin. He could take me to tbe marker and also be my support animal! I would love dobbing for the rest of my life

I came here to say this too, but I did that thing where you look to see if someone else has said it. Hi, my people! I would sell my soul for this to become a thing.

He makes some good points.

So, in the modern world, in some places where people still use horses for normal life (certain remote places) people are actually replacing horses with cars/motorbikes because motorbikes are cheaper to own. The horse you have to feed all year round.

Also of course bikes are also a lot faster, you can park them somewhere and not think about sending them off to graze, and they're (for the places I know) a status symbol too. That's not to say they don't have their downsides, including broken bike frames now rusting across the landscape.

Feels sad to me, but I understand it from the people's point of view: getting whatever's best in the now to help their day to day life and economic situation.

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Horse vs. Automobile

BEFORE you discard your horse and buy an auto it is well to think of the cost.

Figure how much you spend for harness and then think of what new tires amount to.

Figure up what it takes to feed Dobbin in a year and then think of gasoline, repairs and storage charges.

Dobbin is worth what you paid for him two years ago, where's the man with an auto that can say the same?

Come in and get a new harness instead of a new car and remember that Dobbin will take you through snow and mud as well as on good roads and that his carburetor is never out of order.

Ed. Klein

732 Massachusetts Street

This is usually the cycle if there is something new… many people in the past thought that computers or the internet would go away again … same with AI models at the moment

To be fair there are countless fads that went away again. Spicy autocomplete might very well be one of them. Not every invention has had the success of the automobile or the computers.
- But spicy autocorrect is going to steal my job next month! Benzinga told me and my boss so; when he does fire me it totally won’t be a self fulfilling prophecy!
  (Don’t worry, if this ages poorly I WILL delete this comment.)
- Looking at all the cars in the socialist countries... Huh.

Can't imagine people in subdivisions all owning horses, especially townhomes. They're also very slow. Horses are good for the soul though. They're like pools, the best horse is your friend's/neighbors.

We believe in Dobbin.

If I had enough property and could afford a great life for a few horse's I would absolutely use them as my daily transportation/friend. Love to have a donkey and a couple of pack goats too.

I always have to watch a ton of goat videos to remember that they are jerks and that I don't need one.

TFW you live in Amish territory and Dobbins are a common sighting on streets. Maybe once all the oil and natural gas have been pumped out, and if electric vehicles never take off, and if we dont converted back to wood gas/ ethenol based cars, Dobbins will become mainstream

Well I like horses and I like cars. But which one is better?

bikes