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Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don't, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.

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[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

Can't we have affordable repairable cars AND reliable public transport? That would sure be nice.

Many places in America at least are just too spread out. But we dont need a super mega duper feed f teenthousand to drive around. Shit like the Slate would be amazing if it could exist (I realize bezos funded it. Still doesn't keep it from being a bad idea).

Thats why I will argue old cars were undeniably better. You could actually repair them and they weren't rolling spyware with a subscription.

1990 to about 2014 is the perfect spot for cars. Before that is archaic for most people (i prefer 80s cars myself) and newer than that its just a corpo bot on wheels.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good luck finding parts from the 80s though besides pickup trucks since I still lots of those from that era on the road still

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Oh there's a lot of parts for American 80s cars around. And their crude enough you can fab most things to work fine or just get aftermarket if you need to.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Just bring lots of money for gas.

Also, Obama trashed most pre 2000s cars, so Detroit bailouts would work.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah that whole thing really pissed me off. Tons and tons of great old cars destroyed. Further helping the rich and fucking over the poor.

[-] atmorous@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Might I suggest Open Source Repairable Electric Cars, Trains, Trams, Bikes, Bike-Cars, Walking Bikes, Boats, and VTOL's those would be awesome to get open source alternatives for

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Slate EV is open. But watch, no one will buy them.

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