RichardSIA wrote:
Cars that will be "Dispatched" to run errands WITH NO OCCUPANT, "Hailed" to pick up passengers so running empty in one direction, etc.
Cars today sit unused 95% of the time.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/13/cars-park ... t-of-time/You think that having a single car with...say...80% utilization is worse than the manufacture, upkeep, storage, and depreciation of 16 cars with 5% utilization?
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Maybe the iPhone generation has no problem with that, but I find driving to be just about the last Semi-Free activity we are allowed to participate in without having to make special arrangements.
What other semi-free activities have been banned?
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Remember when "lead" was mandated to be removed from our gas, and the conequences to MANY cars. This will be MUCH worse!
Do you even know the extent of the effects of leaded gasoline?
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There are three basic reasons why this theory should be believed. First, as Drum points out, the numbers correlate almost perfectly. "If you add a lag time of 23 years," he writes. "Lead emissions from automobiles explain 90 percent of the variation in violent crime in America. Toddlers who ingested high levels of lead in the '40s and '50s really were more likely to become violent criminals in the '60s, '70s, and '80s."
Second, this correlation holds true with no exceptions. Every country studied has shown this same strong correlation between leaded gasoline and violent crime rates. Within the United States, you can see the data at the state level. Where lead concentrations declined quickly, crime declined quickly. Where it declined slowly, crime declined slowly. The data even holds true at the neighborhood level - high lead concentrations correlate so well that you can overlay maps of crime rates over maps of lead concentrations and get an almost perfect fit.
You probably don't want to defend the use of leaded gasoline.