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Electric car anyone?

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run free
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It is difficult to measure your own and third party studies would be able to determine. UCL did one for the lockdown and found during the first 3 weeks, people’s overall well being improved and those who had mental issues either had no change or improved. I will find the study later
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Thought you might like to hear the thoughts from Xavier Brice who is the head of the charity Sustrans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFMv94CH64


Skip the first 3 minutes of intro. It's a long chat but it is entertaining and simple to understand :)
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RF - we obviously have a different view on activist :¬)

I shall now stun you and tell you that although I didn't listen to all of it I skipped through dropping in and out and listened to the questions at the end .

It's a mix of common sense and wishful thinking. I would call it an activist presentation.

To be fair if I get a job 5 miles from my house or less I would ride or run to work(unless it rained), we already walk the boy to school.

I found some of his car information interesting, brake particals and tyre wear

Now, tyres made from Dandilions .....

Most surprised that he was a fan of autonoumous vehicles as surely even safer(once the tech is sorted) that keeps volume on the road.
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Oooh Gobi just looked up the word "activist". My mis-conception of the word "activist". Always thought they were "protesters".... oh well my excuse I didn't grow up here :p
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12:56pm, 4 Jul 2020
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Gobi - autonomous vehicles will cause a massive drop in # of cars on the road.

As per Tony Seba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kbzfWzvSI&t=6s), we are looking at several disruptive technologies piling up on top of each other:
- Solar PV
- Battery Tech
- Electric Vehicles
- Autonomous vehicles

And these all feed back on each other too.

His thesis is that once EVs become *much* cheaper than ICEs (remember that they're already at parity once all lifetime costs are taken into account), it will be cheaper to hail a vehicle (uber style) that takes you where you want to go (and drives itself), why would anyone (unless you are uber wealthy and need a status symbol) want to buy a car?

There will still be private ownership, but it'll be far less than now.

He reckons that car ownership globally will fall to about 20% of current levels.
Gobi
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Lol RF

I have no faith and believe I will always want to control where I go.
rf_fozzy
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Faith is irrelevant
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Sorry i believe most people will want more control of their destiny.

I dont buy into it.

On the bright side i guess I will be dead before this vision is realised
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[Hopefully not because you’ve been mown down by a rogue AV 😉]
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ER - I'll be dead won't care :-)

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