Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

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    1 year ago

    That’s a far too simple take. Everyone (yes, also you) have biases around cars. And depending on the bias, people want to have these character traits associated with them.

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      1 year ago

      That is exactly, what I mean. It’s not so much about impressing other people and more about impressing themselves. They want a big car, because they think, it makes them big. Even people who care about cars don’t see every car and think how cool the owner must be.

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        1 year ago

        Understood, yes. 🤔

        What I wanted to point out is that these people are not too wrong in their assumptions. It is, indeed, impressive to society.

        Example, if you look at a shiny new(ish) Mercedes, that’s well cleaned, and in perfect shape. What’s the first things you attribute to that driver? At least “wealthy/successful to some extent”, right? And that’s a trait that is impressive in a lot of (capitalist) societies nowadays.

        It’s not about whether this is a good or bad thing. It’s just something that we need to acknowledge and understand when fighting car centricity. We can’t just deny the existence of it.