Fuck cars.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

sigh

zip

It's so crazy that the 144 month term is only barely an exaggeration.

I love how the 12² isn't explained, so it's really just 144 months of payments.

Toss in the all-weather floor mats and you got a deal.

This is where legislation is required, to start limiting tire dangerous particles emissions. 🤷‍♂️

*urban microplastics (because most nano- and microplastics released into the environment come from commercial fishing by far)

Thinking back on how black my skin would become with tire dust, I'm amazed that masks aren't required by OSHA on freight docks. I used to be so dirty at the end of a shift. I'm sure it didn't have good impacts on my lungs...

Sort out public transport, make it very attractive, even free. Charge for cars, parking, etc, with suspension for needs like disability, hospital appointments, that kind of thing.

While I agree with you, particularly in urban areas where it's easy for transit to make sense, I do still think we need solutions for people not living near cities too. Makes me wonder if there's any tire technology out there to be developed that would either shed a lot less plastic, or maybe not even contain plastics.

Inb4 "lighter cars" or "just walk", yeah I know, and I already drive a wagon rather than an SUV, to min/max size versus practicality, and I usually try to walk to town unless I need to carry something heavy or the weather is particularly shit, but there's a ton of times where I need to go on a long drive, sometimes through multiple urban areas (that now get polluted with my microplastics), and public transit offers me no solution, or the solution is to at least double or triple the time taken by my already long drive. I'm eventually moving from diesel to electric to cut down on my exhaust pollution, but I'd also like there to be something that people like myself can do about the microplastics. Not because I think me alone doing something would change something, but because once something exists, it can be mandated by the EU or local governments.

Electric vehicle are major culprits, no? They literally weigh tons more than ICE, a lot more friction between rubber and road and therefore more tire wear?

I don't think we've used tree rubber in our car rubbers in a long time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber

Reducing the use of cars would help.

Fewer cars