Most cars are not used by people living out in nowhere, on a road that only two people use.

We could run a smaller vehicle if there are only ever two riders that need the service, or avoid having a route when there are too few people.

School districts can sort out how to move small numbers of children spread out in rural areas, the same can be done for any population. It also means that there might be some area that don't have enough mass for mass transit.

But right now we have a lot of places with plenty of mass that just refuse to believe that mass transit can be a solution because of decades of car company propaganda.

As this meme shows, driving electrically does very little in the grand scheme of things, especially if you burned fossil fuels to generate that energy. Theres also the infrastructure required for EVs which is prioritized in more urban areas than rural ones. Getting people to switch to electric now while tricking them into thinking it is completely green will do more to slow the shift away from car dependancy in my opinion.

In those big money "glorified suburb white flight" ""rural"" areas maybe, otherwise it's laughable to think they can afford a functional electric car that won't die or need a prohibitively expensive battery replacement in two years OR find somewhere to charge in their bfe town an hour from home.

Meanwhile, if you're obsessed with actions doable "today," you could get a fleet of vehicles up and running tomorrow to offer transit services to people in need. 🤷

Fine, here, have some of the other comics of the artist

https://twitter.com/GregVann/status/1085788036573540354

That's exactly what he means, you don't really want to treat things that less than perfect as enemies.

It depends on how far from perfect they are. It’s reckless and socially irresponsible to not treat EVs as enemies.

It's not really useful modelling/labeling and you just reinforce the notion that you can never be pleased.

Get asses on bicycle seats, and I am pleased.

If you mean to ask does globalization exist, of course.

Given that globalization exists, bicycles are the winner in this context as well because there are many more manufacturers and bikes are orders of magnitude less complex (thus fewer components to import). Unlike cars which are complex enough to have components that are big and/or heavy shipped all over the globe. Bicycles are made on your continent with minimal shipping weight. The simplicity of bikes also means fewer components that can break.

The most significant problem with bicycles is the Chinese are making copious bikes with non-standard low-quality components not built to last. Cheap Chinese-made bikes have a shorter lifetime than others and the components have compatibility problems so the whole bike gets scrapped.

These issues are not inherent in bicycles themselves. Buy a sustainable domestically made bike with standard parts, not a cheap €100 Chinese import.