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Instead of just electrifying vehicles, cities should be investing in alternative methods of transportation. This article is by the Scientific Foresight Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), a EU's own think tank.

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[-] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

If bikes would drive the same annual passenger-kilometers, they would.

This is insanely deceptive.

This could only possibly be true if cars continued to be used at the same rate. The vast majority of deaths involving cycling are from cyclists being killed by cars. If people traveled as many miles by bike as by car today, cycling deaths would be practically eliminated because there would be no cars to murder them.

[-] AlexS@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

You're right that 60% of all accidents of bikes are with cars. And of these 75% are caused by cars. Link So with less cars and better infrastructure bike-accidents could be cut in half and deadly accidents nearly eliminated.

Glad that you accept trains as not much more energy efficient than cars.

[-] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

100% of car involved crashes involve cars. That's just tautology. Even in acknowledging the fact that you completely misrepresented or just outright lied with your data, you're can't seem to help continuing to blame the victim.

I haven't accepted trains are more efficient than cars because they aren't. I refuted you elsewhere. It's kind of self-apparent when you're not paid to believe something else.

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