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• manucode@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bicycle guys: “A car with an electric motor is still a car”

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m don’t do very much bicycling, but I much prefer breathing next to EVs than ICE vehicles. Being forced to breath someone’s stinky exhaust when you’re breathing heavy from physical exertion sucks.

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    • Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Breathing in Micro-rubber/micro-plastics from disintegrating car tires aren’t fixed at all by electrification.

      I can also hear ICE cars approach from behind when I’m cycling, but that isn’t the case with electric vehicles (which might be using “autopilot” and can’t see me on the road). I’m not sure if that whirring sound is present outside of low speeds, but I certainly can’t hear it with wind crossing my ears. Sometimes tire noise is audible, but not always.

      On the other hand, ICE drivers are more likely to intentionally try to hit me soooo

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    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you’re going to shit when you find out sidewalks are next to streets.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But I’m sure a bicycle guy still understands the benefit of electric cars over regular cars

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A real car guy wouldn’t have anything in particular against EVs because he already drew the line at automatic transmissions.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Car guy checking in. I think Teslas are cool and all, but trains are the future. I want trains to be so good that people would rather take them so that people like me, who care a lot about driving, get to drive. And people who would rather read a book or play a game while commuting aren’t forced to drive when they clearly don’t want to.

    I have a 1997 Prelude Type SH manual. And I’m looking to replace my 2012 auto Civic with an 8th Gen Accord LX manual because I really missed driving stick daily and need a cheap manual I can daily.

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    • ormr@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Civic? A car you can trust.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are stick shift EVs. They’re expensive, but you can actually get an old ICE body, and convert it to an EV stick shift.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cute. But fuck Tesla.

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• paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reactionary car guys are the people “ice”-ing charging stations and talking about how they’re just going to consume more oil in response.

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• papabobolious@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the truth is somewhere in the middle

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  • fl42v@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kinda… It’s just that all modern cars are pieces of surveillance tech with a side gig of transporting meatbags. Kinda worse with EVs, tho, AFAIK

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