Do electric cars count as technology? They certainly don’t count as public transit. The Leapmotor S01 looks cool as hell and has a range of about 220 miles. It has a self driving feature on par with Tesla’s current “Full Self Driving” SAE Level 2 automation with a possibility of an upgrade to Level 3 automation, all while costing less than half as much as Tesla’s cheapest car (which doesn’t even include self driving at that price).
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I will car-post until someone tells me not to and then I’ll go cry. I don’t even have one, I just think they’re neat.
The problems aren’t cars per se, but basing your transit/logistics/fucking entire cities on them. The goal is to minimize the need of cars.
Exactly! Cars serve a number of roles, but being the primary method of travel is definitely not one of them. I think China is doing a great job right now in letting cars fill various roles in various forms, rather than trying to shoehorn them into the “this is a unit that has to do everything from be your daily commuter to your fun weekend sporty car to your own personal moving truck and everything inbetween” role that Westerners seem to demand. That’s why you’ll see such massive variation in style between sporty, fun cars like this to affordable and space-efficient trucks to small little glorified golf carts for the elderly to drive around. The thing I worry about there, is the possibility of it tipping over into cars becoming the main mode of shorter distance transportation rather than things like trams, metros, and buses.
