Pretty sure it's sarcasm.

Asshole, sometimes confused as sarcasm

Net positives mean something, though. We want a 10/10 solution, but saying an achievable 6/10 is the same as no change at all is exactly what the people who oppose us want us to think. That if we can’t get rid of every car on the road, we might as well have done nothing. That’s terrible! Of course we can make things incrementally better!

We all want cars to generally go away from what should be walkable areas. Replace them with public transit and bikes and just walking. That kind of culture shift is going to take generations. Less smog and carbon dioxide being spewed into the air is a good thing. (Provided the trend towards solar and wind power continues.)

Assuming people get electric vehicles when their combustion cars reach end of life and not just trading in a four year old SUV for its electric variant, the I think it is.

Ignoring the ideal wherein privately owned vehicles decrease over time, of course. Continued development of EVs will be a benefit in terms of battery technology and motor efficiency, among other things.

It’s easier because I can make the decision myself and I can do it without much planning or coordination. I replace my car periodically anyway, so there may be no real difference (in my case my ice car was nine years old and I needed something for my teens to use, so an EV was the logical choice)

Modifying a city for walkability takes many years, decades, even assuming everyone else agrees, politicians are supportive, and there is some sort of budget. We can’t afford to just wait for the ideal solution

Not much noise reduction. After 50 kph, tires are louder than engines anyways.

Sure there are the occasional busted/"tuned" exhaust comes out very loud, but the majority of the din is just wheels on the road.

I drive a 2019 Fiat 500e as my daily getting-around-town car. A little more than “barely even a car” but it gets about 80 miles on an overnight charge from a normal 110V outlet.

I would love a small sedan that’s got 200+ miles of range, fast charging, and isn’t made by a company run by a fascist. Nobody seems to want to make them at any price.

I agree, though there are buses and trucks in those panels, and I'd hazard a guess that if the national fleet of vehicles went electric, the gross weight limits might get bumped up a touch.

If I'm remembering right the United States federal limit is 80,000 gross, but there's also a per axle specification. If electric long haulers started becoming more common, I could see the limits being bumped for the whole vehicle, while adding an extra axle or some such.

Yes exactly. The point is to make whole cities like this not neighbourhoods or small areas. Europe is much closer to the 3rd picture than USA but not there.

I never mentioned race.

i recognize the neighborhood that inspired this drawing (it was a freeway that got pulled out, had nothing to do with fossil fuel vehicles or public transit, it had to do with a rich neighborhood's view). i used to eat calamari rolled up in a newspaper there. this is pure propaganda.