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A lot depends on whether you view the "need" for a car to be an artificial invention. Much like the "housing shortage".

Er, mankind is not "man".

Mankind has always had access to forms of transport that extend feet (Shanks' pony as my late mum liked to say). However *individuals* may not have. Yes a farmer *might* own a donkey, mule or - if they are flush a horse. But that would still be a minority. And there were not coach loads of villagers going into town every week.

I refer you to my comment elsewhere about the "need" to travel.

Exhibit one will be a lady I met in Houma Louisiana in her 60s who had never left the town, let alone the county. I discovered this when asking about the postage for some postcards from New Orleans that rather shocked her. Maybe unusual for the UK, but it appears not in (some parts of) the US. Of A.

As said elsewhere in this thread: "Old people die."

A day doesn't go by.

They've allowed the motor, to work into an 8 speed transmission. Brave.

They put ceramic brakes on it! No more rust at least. Remains to be seen how much shampoo the ceramic needs :-)

Paul

Do you think that's its only old people that resist change. It will be the young with aspirations to have their own independence that will want their own transport.

I think my current mains drill is de walt. Its OK. But I seldom use it. For small jobs I have a cheap 2 speed battery electric screwdriver from wickes.

Much handier and will do a lot before recharge, More than its current owner can in fact.

At a tenner who is complaining - I bought it for a job involving attaching cladding to a wood frame. Doing it with nails exhausted me. So I bought this and a pack of self-tappers.

It survived, I survived and its still going strong.

Nor bad for a tenner.

I sympathise totally.

I believe (somewhat weakly) that this is a programmable choice...

Anyone like me who grew up not in a city, and with very infrequent and unreliable public transport will know that having a car was a life changing experience.

The journey time from our house to my grandmothers house reduced from 8 hours to around 4 hours, with no need for any expensive taxis (3 kids and all their luggage is not something you want to carry on the Tube, or even walk 15 minutes to the train station ) But pile it in the boot of the old Morris, and of you go. Sure we only averaged 30mph, but it was still way faster than public transport.

The bus to the local town averaged 8mph...

It took me 15 minutes to walk to the train station, which did the same trip in 15 minutes, with a ten minute walk the other end. So 40 minutes overall.

I discovered I could cycle it in a little over half an hour, later on.

Public transport that is slower than a teenager on a bicycle is utter crap.

When I lived in London, it was quicker to walk into Camden town from Belsize Park than take the tube...

No. I learnt my lesson

Public transport unless your end points are really close to an express train stop is simply slower than a car.

Flying beats a car mostly, but again airport delays are immense.

Mine is a blue 600W from about 1985, it has a gearbox and hammer action, which my (modern, cheap) battery drill doesn't have. Not used much in the last ten years or so, but typical DIY before that. Plenty of brick and plaster dust.

The point I was making is that tyhe situation arose because the vehicle is a hybrid.

But more comfortable if it's raining

But you don't need to find a parking space for a car if you go by public transport.

Not necessarily. I remember waiting on rain soaked platforms and at rain soaked bus stops.

Neither do you if you walk. or Cycle. But parking spots are not a problem excepte wheny city councils who hate motorists make them a problem.

And who wants to visit a city these days anyway? No shops, massive charges for anything and all the museums and theatres are now paying homage to woke.

Do you get regen if you use the brake pedal? Or is that 100% friction? So if you adjust the one pedal driving to be light deceleration it's less efficient because you're braking more via friction than regen? Or does it do some regen on the brake pedal whatever the 1PD setting?

The 1PD experience seems to vary quite a bit between cars.

Theo

This isn't Jethro's "plan", many governments have let slip that they are grid-planning for half the number of vehicles which are on the road today.

Somehow, they have arbitrarily arrived at 50% as the number, and they are also doing things to make it happen. Such as making every rental skyscraper or condo tower, to have *NO* parking lot. They put up a sign out front, "public transit living", as if having no wheels at all is an asset :-/

More than one city here, reports that public transit is at a breaking point. It's too expensive. Someone has to pay. Who could that be ? Is it me ?

Not only do new apartments have no auto parking, they also don't even have a bicycle room. My apartment, the bicycle room had 200 bicycles in it, back in the day.

The future is much worse than you would ever believe. Only by "escaping to suburbia" will the disadvantaged city dweller have a life.

The only thing missing from this plan, is Soma Cubes.

We have skyscrapers here, that were build on spec. The concrete portion, the pillars, all that part is finished. Now, the rental companies, no rental company wants to "finish and decorate units". The towers stand... unfinished. We've slipped so far now, we can't even finish a construction project. The planning permission for these jobs, should only be granted upon "proof of funding" and a "real plan to finish the units". The lot should remain vacant if this is not possible. One building, a rather big one too, has been standing in a "stop-work" fashion like that, for at least two years now. Does the building permit actually say you can leave a project "unfinished -- forever" ? I don't think so. Who will pay to knock it down ? Is it me ?

Paul

It blends regen and friction when you use the brake pedal (based on the charge indicator still showing blue and negative kW when braking). I think that's probably the same blend for both driving modes, it's just the amount of regen available without braking that changes with mode.

This is a Zoe, so basic design now about 12 years old. It's crude, because the amount of regen available varies with temperature and level of charge in the battery so your braking differs in how much you have to use the brake pedal. More modern designs control the blend to hide this.

nib

AFAIAA this has been the plan since the 80s. Hence the ever shrinking parking spaces in new builds (that's if they have *any*) plus an ongoing theme of deliberately ensuring journeys by car are inefficient and slow. The mantra being people should use pubic transport.

Of course that brainwave died the day they hived of public transport as a commodity rather than a key element of infrastructure. (See also, energy, water, telecomms).

FWIW, and not entirely planned, but certainly very welcome, I live within a minutes walk of a parade of shops, my doctors and pharmacists, and 2 bus stops with a choice of routes to the local hospital or city centre. Which is about 30 minutes by bus or 15 by taxi depending on the time. With the added irony that I have off road parking space for 4 cars.

So in the spirit of some posters here, I'm alright. Can't see a problem.

All true, but I stand with the Romans that city living (or suburban city living :) ) is the epitome of civilisation. Even now, Sunday midday, I can get an Uber in less than 5 minutes.

You can't carry much shopping either.

Why would you want an uber? It's so nice and peaceful here, I don't want to leave!