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While we should definitely prioritise public transport and micromobility over more cars, the tyre wear thing is a smaller issue by orders of magnitude compared to CO2 emissions.
Have you ever worked in a mechanic shop to actually smell tire and brake dust? Hell, even if I wasn't a smoker, my lungs are already probably fucked.
And you're not considering, where does all that tire dust actually go? Every time it rains, it gets washed off the roads, off into drainage canals and the environment in general. It doesn't just disappear.
You have those same things with ICE cars. If you're truly worried about the issue, let's just ban private car ownership and invest in free public transport for everyone.
I'd be game to go back to simple bicycles and horses to be perfectly honest. Sure, transportation would take longer and have different complications, but it would be much more environmentally friendly.
I will say I'm very anti horse drawn transport. One of the great achievements of ICE vehicles is they replaced horses and fixed the very large issue of the massive amounts of horse manure urban centres across the world were dealing with.
I grew up on a horse ranch. Guess what?
They make this amazing magical solution to the horse shit problem. It's called a fucking shit bag.
It's not rocket science, you mount the shit bag to the horse's ass, whenever it shits, the dookie goes in the bag.
Sure it's up to you to empty/clean/change the bags, but hell, every vehicle comes with some sort of maintenance.
I would have thought the more intelligent argument would have been with the maintenance of horse shoes..
This does not solve the problem of the sheer volume that be created and need to be handled. Even moving single digit percentages of modal share over to horses in urban areas would create infrastructure problems that quite frankly don't need to exist as we have better solutions.
Plus as you allude to with the horseshoes animals are vastly complicated things to maintain.
If it were not for urban areas... Lots of space to just dig up and dump the manure (and then cover it of course). Maybe a nearby farm that would be happy to exchange a few bags for a carrot (well, it's shit. How much value do you expect out of it?) or a drain line specifically made for horse dung which would lead to certain processing facilities and make them into useful stuff.
Instead of car parkings, there could be stables connected to said drain lines. You could pay for some standardised meals and hopefully free drinking water at the stable while you went on with your work.
Hey, has anyone written a story on this?
Hey, if you keep a car and a dog, might as well keep a horse instead!
Yeah, I'm just tired of all the horse drawn carriage owners with illegally modified shit-bags "rolling foal" at my EV.
Also being late would be normalized again so less stress overall.
Great idea!