| > and almost certainly you haven't driven an electric car. Of course I did. And if you compare features and prices, they offer a way worse experience than a traditional car. I've also driven rally cars professionally and on track sometimes with semi automatic gears. I just lack the vocabulary to talk thoroughly about it in English (sorry, I studied business English and then computer science, not mechanical engineering...) The state of the art is absolutely better and has been for decades, but the state of the art is not what people drive everyday. The most popular EV right now in Europe is the Renault Zoe, which honestly is good, but far from great (and you can buy the same exact car with an ICE engine for 10k less, it's 30% less!) Smart EQ is on the rise given the small size which is a great quality in many EU cities, it's as bad as the ICE one. At least it's affordable. Except for Tesla all the other offer a very bad experience for the price, even the BMW i3 is not what you would expect from a 40 thousands euros car. > People constantly break them by not using the clutch properly, shifting at the wrong moment As I said I grew up in a repair shop too, imagine what they do to their cars when the same people think that an automatic is easier to drive so they put even less effort to it. They destroy every other piece of the car, irresponsible people will be irresponsible. I am not rooting for ice cars, but for letting cars go as a necessity and think of something else. Electric cars are just another way to keep producing the same old product in a slightly different way. They give a false sense of security and of progress. But we are gonna have a black market for hacks and modified parts (batteries probably) anyway and they will be as dangerous as the traditional cars we have right now for pedestrians and other road users. The problem with cars is barely the pollution, it's the effect that they produced on our environment, especially the highly dense urbanized areas of the World If they were harder to drive and operate there will be less of them around We got rid of people dying by falling from horses by not riding horses anymore as a standard way to travel How many people do you see flying a plane? A Cessna is not more expensive than a high end Tesla P.s. flying without autopilot is barely possible, using an autopilot without mastering flight first is unimaginable P.p.s. the same people not using the clutch correctly are going to mess with the engine controls on their new electric cars. How is that going to be better? Are they magically going to be better at operating machinery?
Or will they care less because "EV are the future they almost drive themselves?" P.p.p.s. the number of fatalities is constantly going down because there are more and more mandatory safety devices on cars, but the number of accidents is almost steady (at least in Italy) also considering that the number of km driven went down due to 2 global economic crisis and a pandemia in 20 years and the increase of restricted areas in cities. But, and this is the bad news, there were more cars in Italy in 2019 than ever before, 1.4% more than 2018. In red goal for 2020 victim reduction, in black actual number of victims https://www.pneurama.com/ew/ew_articolo/images/weekly_it/ima... |
