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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by r_hoods_ghost on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:47PM (#34391867)
If you look outside of the USA lots of cities have good public transport systems that aren't plagued by poverty, crime, homelessness and mental illness. Just because Americans have decided to optimize their society to maximize misery of a minority for the benefit of an even smaller minority doesn't make it necessary.
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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by blfr on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:50PM (#34391896)
It's the other way round: cities that aren't plagued by homelessness, rampant drug use, and criminality can have good public transit. Middle class people simply won't pay (in taxes or directly) for public transit that acts as a homeless shelter and routinely features crimes against them.
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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:03PM (#34392043)
Western European countries are also much stricter on law and order via transit. Brussels, for example, deploys heavily armed police to check fares on the metro often. And Switzerland…you really don’t want to break the laws there even if you have nothing to lose.
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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by landemva on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:44PM (#34392531)
I had three interactions with Swiss police in various cities, and they were all ok. Maybe it depends on the person?
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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:29PM (#34392999)
Well, it also depends if you can speak a national language. Nothing beats getting chewed out by a Swiss cop for only speaking English.
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Re:Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA ... by bluGill on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:22PM (#34392264)
Transit isn't plagued by those here either, but a tiny minority gets a lot of attention.
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