mondoman712 @ mondoman712 @lemmy.ml

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Bike rental in the Netherlands is great for certain uses but not for others. You can't use the OV-fiets as a tourist, and you generally have to take them back to where you got them from.

Docked systems are better, and you can remove most of the cost of the docks by doing the "dockless docks" where you just have to return them to designated areas. This can work for both bikes and scooters.

Companies like bird & lime take advantage of the lack of regulations, but there's clearly a demand. Cities can take advantage of this by regulating, providing infrastructure, and charging the companies to operate, things already done for cars.

There's a lack of infrastructure to accommodate rental scooters which cause the problems you mentioned. Having safe places to ride (i.e bike lanes) and designated places to park them would solve these issues. I could also argue that cars do all the same things.

Reducing demand for public transport is a good thing in a developed city. You want there to be more space for people that aren't going to choose micromobility, which is much cheaper for a city to provide more capacity for.

I'd be interested to see some research into your theory of ebikes replacing more car journeys and escooters replacing more public transport journeys.

I agree with your points on why ebikes are safer, but scooters are also more compact and therefore easier to transport and store when not riding, and the safety issue is really solved by having safe places to ride. Having the choice available is important because different people have different priorities and preferences.

Why do you think escooters are terrible?

If you're replacing your phone surely it's better that it doesn't come with the charger (from an environmental point of view), since you don't have to ship it back and they don't have to ship you a new one. And what does it matter if they're on different ships? It would still be pretty much the same amount of emissions released, which is probably less than the amount needed to drive it to your house. Adding the extra packaging for two separate items isn't great though, and I agree that as a customer it isn't great to get less for the same price.

Clean-car sounds a lot like clean coal

Moroccanoil is an israeli company. The connection to Morocco is that they co-opted a Moroccan product and sell it under their name. There's no reason to believe that their sponsorship would influence a potential Moroccan entrant.

It's a meme

You just described an alternative version of the well known trolley problem, which the post is referencing.

The answers to the problem from the philosophers is interesting.

Urbanisation is actually much higher in North America

Just to be pedantic, the dumb car tunnels (or Loop), are the weird thing elon "invented" to "solve" traffic and reduce competition for his cars for urban transport. This eventually became one tunnel in LA to get between elon's house and office, and the dumb taxi tunnel in Las Vegas.

The hyperloop, where elon "invented" the vacuum train, is a separate thing that exists to distract from CAHSR, and elon didn't want to work on himself because "he's too busy", and not because it's effectively just a scam and won't work, and most of the companies that started up to develop it have since gone bust.

They wanted to move and use thier car

Did they though? To some extent, yes. But most people just want to get places and will take whichever mode makes the most sense for that journey, and what a city invests in will make that mode make more sense for more journeys. There is also a portion of journeys that just won't happen if they are too difficult.

Your last paragraph is tangential to what I said. It doesn't disagree because it says something different. It's also oversimplified in some ways and just wrong in others.

Beyond the fact that adding five more lanes would still leave you with a horribly inefficient transport system, you also ignore that externalities that you are exacerbating by doing so. You're displacing thousands more people, worsening the division of communities, creating a lot of noise and air pollution, increasing car dependency etc

It's an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.

You have to be insane to do either in New York.

It's deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won't be a problem here because there won't be any level crossings.

Bad take. You couldn't have pretty much any modern country without their previous problematic leader. You can learn just about them in history class and not honour them though statues.

Having a place in history doesn't automatically mean they should be honoured. There's plenty of people from history that we can all agree have made a huge impact and yet we wouldn't want statues of them.

The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.