▲ 23 ▼ [image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] credo@laguna.chat -1 points 3 years ago (2 children) Inefficient energy wise. Not timewise. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 years ago This visualization is space efficiency. Obviously cars have terrible energy efficiency. The most efficient vehicle is a bicycle, since exercise is good for you it's arguably negative energy usage. As for time efficiency, you have to consider car dependent development as a package. Everything spreads out, so overall there may not be an improvement in time efficiency, especially when you factor in the longer travel time of people not in cars. You could even consider the time spent working to pay for the car, or the time lost from people killed by the car, and I doubt cars would come out particularly time efficient then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Thadrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago And usage of space. And money, at least if you include all the externalities. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 years ago This visualization is space efficiency. Obviously cars have terrible energy efficiency. The most efficient vehicle is a bicycle, since exercise is good for you it's arguably negative energy usage. As for time efficiency, you have to consider car dependent development as a package. Everything spreads out, so overall there may not be an improvement in time efficiency, especially when you factor in the longer travel time of people not in cars. You could even consider the time spent working to pay for the car, or the time lost from people killed by the car, and I doubt cars would come out particularly time efficient then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thadrax@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago And usage of space. And money, at least if you include all the externalities. permalink fedilink source parent