Yes, but the all new 2028 Ford Mustang Mach-E comes with a HEPA cabin filter and racing tires guaranteed to last half the time they would on a Corolla. You can take advantage now of Ford’s More Than You Can Afford Event, and get yourself into a Mustang with Always-Low* payments across a 122 month term!
~* Always-Low payments subject to increase; does not include seven nigh mandatory monthly subscriptions~
It’s so crazy that the 144 month term is only barely an exaggeration.
Toss in the all-weather floor mats and you got a deal.
There was this chapter in an XKCD book talking about where does tire particles goes. From memory, it said “there are many answers to that question and none of them are good”.
We need trains so bad
I love cars. I also wish my city had realistic public transport options that worked for my commute.
Trains are the real solution.
Bro-dozer pickups weighing 9000+ pounds are the biggest problem.
This isn’t a hard problem to solve technicaly… it’s just a social problem.
Legislative really. It all goes back to the Chicken Tax.
It has a lot to do with the supersizing of vehicles for sure.
Weirdly, electric cars are also worse for tire abrasion since they tend to be heavier. Trains and electric bikes (in cities) seems like a good way to go
So, there is plastic in our rubber tires? Interesting. Can we call it plas-rubber then and sound all futuristic at least?!
Yeah, there was a video a little while back that said that one of the only real sets of tyres that are pure rubber these days are plane tyres because of the huge strain put on them as soon as touchdown is made.
so, what alternative do we have to plastic tires? do we just go back to using extract from the rubber tree?
Reducing the use of cars would help.
If only there was a way
Steel tyres. They’d also look better!
Metal would wear out too fast on asphalt/concrete though. What if we used metal tyres on metal roads? Less friction, less abrasion! It’d be expensive though to replace the whole road. Maybe just a pair of strips the same width as the tyre spacing. Cars could even connect to each other to reduce aerodynamic drag… Nah, would never work
Cars that fly above the road
Wouldn’t tire abrasion be rubber?
Most vehicle tyres have moved a way from entirely rubber construction a while ago and will contain multiple additives such as polymers to improve performance, lifespan etc.
Some may even be made entirely of synthetic rubber but I don’t know if they are widely used or at all.
that’s my thought: would moving back to pure rubber solve the microplastic problem?
I suspect there isn’t enough natural rubber supply in the world for our needs.
Urban air problems are many, so it’s better to not live in an Urb
For your health!
I live on the bleeding edge of a small town. This is reason #476 why I’ll never live in a city again.
Yep, it’s great to have room to breathe and do what you want, and still have a reasonable access to basic stuff nearby like groceries, general supplies. In the old days, living outside the city meant that it was hard to get anything that’s not common, boring, or basic. You’d have to drive to a Big City to get any kind of unusual stuff like skateboards or guitars. But we have online shopping now and you can get anything you want shipped to your doorstep, so I have no need for the city.
working to get food is also good for my health so i’ll keep living in the urb for the foreseeable future
“Jobs only exist in big cities” because no one else outside of cities is able to make a living… all areas other than cities must therefore be uninhabited
you know what happens when more people live together in one place and there are enough jobs for all the people living there? it becomes a city (it doesn’t need to be big, it only needs a lot of cars)
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