Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
by konjin on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:10PM
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A really good take on cars I saw years ago is that they have two modes.
One is high speed death machine which needs to be isolated from humans - e.g. the average highway.
The other is a mechanical horse that you can out run if you try - e.g. how a forklift is normally used.
The problem is where those two modes meet, e.g. anywhere where people and cars share the road and cars move faster than 30km/h, which is unfortunately every city in the last 80 years.
One is high speed death machine which needs to be isolated from humans - e.g. the average highway.
The other is a mechanical horse that you can out run if you try - e.g. how a forklift is normally used.
The problem is where those two modes meet, e.g. anywhere where people and cars share the road and cars move faster than 30km/h, which is unfortunately every city in the last 80 years.