sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoCongress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Carinsideevs.comexternal-linkmessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down16
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minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·4 days agoPeople could just buy EV SUVs and Pickup trucks so the degrading road infrastructure would be less of an issue. Or they could order doordash once less a month and put that money towards the common good.
minus-squareN-E-N@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 days agoHow does purchasing a biggy, heavier vehicle that damages the roads more quickly, fix our problems with degrading road infrastructure?
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoBig wheels roll over potholes better.
minus-squareN-E-N@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 days agoThis is a very short sighted solution. We can’t just keep making bigger and bigger cars as infrastructure gets worse and worse. Larger vehicles are more dangerous, less efficient, and damage roads more quickly
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI’m obviously being facetious.
People could just buy EV SUVs and Pickup trucks so the degrading road infrastructure would be less of an issue.
Or they could order doordash once less a month and put that money towards the common good.
How does purchasing a biggy, heavier vehicle that damages the roads more quickly, fix our problems with degrading road infrastructure?
Big wheels roll over potholes better.
This is a very short sighted solution. We can’t just keep making bigger and bigger cars as infrastructure gets worse and worse.
Larger vehicles are more dangerous, less efficient, and damage roads more quickly
I’m obviously being facetious.