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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people. Sound efficient? HT @circulareconomy 34 comments
 @shoo @DrTCombs @BrentToderian All things are random if you have insufficient insight into their causes. @wizzwizz4 @DrTCombs @BrentToderian Maybe, but last time checking the weather forecast on 4 different sites before going for 30 minute walk ended up in me getting soaked even tho the probability of rain was 20% :D sufficient insight = time... I'd rather luck it out then. It's fun Speed and weight are a function of the cars design and that is a big factor in crashes. @Havant_Enviro @BrentToderian speed, weight, height, power, cognitive load, road design, roadside management, land use patterns, traffic conditions, traffic composition, signalization schemes, presence or absence of alternatives to driving, social norms and expectations... @DrTCombs @BrentToderian human error seems to always happen on streets & intersections designed the same ways, how weird.  @BrentToderian The dashboard display in my car says that the numbers in this European graphic are way off my north america city driving experience.  @samloonie @BrentToderian my average 47 km/h, keep in mind speed in cities have 50 km/h limit. All time i spend for parking search is about 1 hour per year or less. I live in small town and a lot things cannot be reached without car. Also trailer allready paid for itself. So others should be very unlucky, as we see the statistic - they need make a lot of average down my experience. @BrentToderian And we are speaking about typical European car. I assume the typical American car is far less efficient. @BrentToderian I can't figure out who made this graphic. It seems to have been circulating on social media for a while, but nobody seems to know where it came from. @benjamingeer @BrentToderian @BrentToderian however, when I need to make 40 km to do my weekly shopping in the middle of winter : there's no chance I'd make it by bicycle.  @BrentToderian and yet it's still cheaper to go from point A to point B using a car than public transport. Cars are heavily subsidised in a lot of hidden ways. @BrentToderian Mainly because of fact number one, we decided to get rid of it during the pandemic, and we've never regretted it. And before anyone asks, we have kids and get along just fine. This wagon carries 150lbs of groceries, (that’s a respectable beer run) weighs 20lbs, and can fold up in a closet. Unlike the wagons in the background, you can wheel this one right into the store. When I’m lucky, my kid pulls it, meaning my personal energy efficiency goes to infinity. 💪🚶💪❤️ @BrentToderian I feel like we can shade in some orange in the Aux power slice because air treatment is valuable @BrentToderian that is why we are doing #Carsharing for more then 30 years. Almost half of our fleet is eletric. We are probably gonna hit 50 % electric within the upcomming weeks. @BrentToderian And what little transportation a car actually achieves is used to transport someone to a bullshit job to earn enough money to be able to pay for this overpriced useless machine. The issue of wasted energy/fuel in an ICE vehicle isn't a case against cars it's a case against ICE vehicles and their impact on carbon emissions, wasted fuel, land etc. On the other hand it will be difficult for low carbon electricity to be built up without a reduction in car use and ownership. EVs help but replacing the current fleets with them won't be enough, numbers have to drop.  the most efficient way to move people is called WALKING 🚶 ♥️💪 you can move a person quite a distance on a 100 g of sunflower seeds and 2 l of water, nearly no waste, no radioactive waste can move up to 20 kg easily at the same time  @BrentToderian Our kitchen chairs are unused for just as much time. Doesn't mean they are inefficient. Doesn't mean we should get rid of them, or try to share them with our neighbours.  @BrentToderian the obvious solution is to have heavier people so more of the energy goes into moving the people than the car, and to spend more time doing the rounds in the car rather than walking, so that the car spends less time parked. @BrentToderian Automated cars could help solve some of these problems. They would likely stay parked less, thus reducing the need for parking space. Additionally, not owning a car may cause people to seek out alternative mobility options depending on the circumstances. @BrentToderian there’s not a way out of climate disaster that doesn’t go via electric mopeds and ebikes and I suspect those things will be financially nonoptional to a lot of people who currently believe they’ll always be able to have a car @BrentToderian no, it doesn’t but you need a good public transport network to reduce reliability on the car. @BrentToderian a typical house sits empty 50% of the time. 80% of its rooms are empty at any given moment. It only contains other people for a fraction of a year. Sounds efficient?! No. Ban houses and force people to live in tents. |
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@BrentToderian This is 2/3 of the way to being a great graphic.
But it falls apart on that last 1/3 by using the debunked "95% of crashes (#CrashNotAccident) are caused by human error" figure. Debunked because crashes arise from a wide range of interdependent factors, including but extending well beyond the actions of any single human.
They really should have just made it a 2-panel graphic.