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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I agree although i will say not every collision is caused by negligence or malice, at least by the driver. Negligence to make roads safer by changing their design, speed limit, or other factors is an important distinction. For example a road that 80km/h with many curves hills and bends in it should have certain areas with a reduced speed limit, such as where hills or curves dramatically reduce sightlines or have intersections close to those tight sight lines. This negligence is ultimately on what ever government agency is designing and maintaining roads and less on the driver.


  • The impact of personal vehicles is bigger than numbers compared to other industries. People lose their lives to careless drivers, emissions cause local air quality conerns, road maintance destroys city budgets, parking lots destroy city density, and a whole slew of other economical, environmental and social impacts. Many of our major societial issues today of consummerism, failing infrastructure, housing costs, and disease can be linked in part to car dependancy.


  • Yes, but thats not what OP was saying in their post. They were comparing everyone relying on their private automobile as their transportation is the same as relying on private, diesel generators as their MAIN source of power.

    That said a battery backup may be as viable as a generator depending on your demand. For me I’d just need the fridge and a sump pump running, maybe the furnace depending on weather during an extended outage.