What would we call this wondrous contraption? It sounds too good to be true.
Hmm, sounds interesting, like some kind of ground based hyperloop? A pod?
i recently attended a training where we were informed that a degraded compound from tires breaks the blood-brain barrier in salmon and causes them to die.
I was going to mention the fish. I didn’t know this about salmon. But I knew that rivers that have bridges have a lot fewer fish around the bridges than they otherwise would/should. There is a type of tire that’s better for fish (unsure how much better) but it’s more expensive so you can guess how likely it’ll become widespread.
Recent argument with a Lemmyverse carbrain:
“I have a small business that moves pallets. How would mass transit move my pallet? Case closed.”
Not to belittle the actual problem of tire rubber particulates, but the wording of the headline is very consistent with a green nationalist focus on “pollution” and “clean air” that minimizes exactly how many orders of magnitude more dangerous GHG emissions are than anything like this.
Also, even this is total bullshit - “more particle pollution by mass?” So CO2 is not a particle? A typical car emits waaaay more CO2 by mass in a month than the mass of an entire set of tires.
Again, not to minimize the actual cause for concern, but wording like this actively minimizes the climate apocalypse that the developed world has created and is sustaining.
