Notices by Bryan Culbertson (bryanculbertson@mastodon.social)

@SafeStreetRebel Waymo programs their cars to block crosswalks to get a jump on the light

Waymo could and should follow the law by programming their cars to treat crosswalks like railroad tracks, where you don't enter unless there is space to leave

Cars are causing climate change

The only way we have a livable planet in the future is we must quickly build a world where we take transit, bike, and walk

We cannot afford to build even one more mile of highways

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-data

To look at this from another angle

Currently only 1M EVs are sold per year with industry projected growth to 5M by 2030. At this optimistic rate we won't replace all 280M gas powered cars until 2050 which would be at approximately 15 years too late to keep us from going over 2 degrees of global warming

It is financially and physically impossible to stop catastrophic levels of global warming unless we drastically reduce car travel

There are 280M cars in the US and less than 1% of them are EVs

To replace all cars with EVs in 10 years would require people to purchase 28M new EVs per year which is more than double the total number of cars ever sold in one year. DOUBLE!

The average cost of a new car is $50k. To replace all 280M cars with EVs would cost $14 Trillion with the big T.

We would have to dedicate 6% of our GDP just to replacing cars.

EVs will only ever be a small part of the solution to climate change

Our streets used to be shared spaces for neighbors until car companies invented a fake crime of "jaywalking" to give drivers passing through legal immunity to kill people who inconvenienced them