They’ve killed off the 50cc Vespa gas scooter, just too good of a technology. The old 50cc’s were a pain, have to gas them up, and not always starting. Couldn’t bring them inside, too dirty of a motorcycle. It’ll be a slow change, still a newish technnology. Much to figure out about using them in traffic and such.

They are an amazing technology. Slowly they will change transportation in cities. A 120 km/h and a 100 km range is a game changer.

Shipping costs?

Bad leadership, should put a speed camera on every street in Toronto. A big city is no place for speeding.

Car drivers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area have gone batshit insane. Speeds are now 140km/h on the highways. Cars and trucks weave in and out of lanes! It’s like a Mad Max world. And its not just highways, drivers have given up all etiquette of driving.
Ford’s dismantling of speed cameras made it even worse. Parkside, the road that runs parallel to High Park in Toronto, the large urban park, now see regular speeders going over 60km/h, some going over 100km/h.

The ones complaining to him.

American companies complain they can’t compete in world trade, while refusing to translate simple words and instructions. This despite the 1trillion dollars invested in the A.I. industry, that in theory should be able to make translations instantly and accurately.

French is again going to be the most spoken language on Earth in 30 years. Most of N. Africa speaks French.

We wrote a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, those words are real, the judge just dismissed it. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a useless piece of paper because these judges did not stand up for it.

The judges are hiding behind a bunch of legalese, out of cowardice. Everyone agrees that is an idiot Ford waging a dumb culture war, and putting lives at risk. At least the first judge called it the way it is, and had some guts.

If judges don’t stand up to stupid people, a major and fundamental aspect of democracy is gone.

The Democratic party is too big of a tent, trying to merge blue collar workers, academic hippies, and champagne liberals. It doesn’t work, it is failing as a party.

1. Livestock accounts for about 20% of greenhouse gasses and 65% of agricultural land is used to grow feed for animals.

2. It can’t always be the carrot … sometimes it needs to be the stick.

Still, people eating too much meat.

You’re going to flip when you find out that some people eat 10 x 6oz of meat a day.

That’s the problem with the politics of the USA One group wants higher prices of meat, and gas. Laws about safe working conditions. Environmental laws about dumping chemicals.
Second group wants lower prices on everything, wants bigger trucks, bigger houses, overseas vacations 4x year, eat more meat.
Though they both complain, they’re complaining about two incompatible things.

…and it screwed EVERYTHING up;

1. People can’t afford kids because the rents are too high,

2. Rents too high for cool spaces to hangout in, so everybody’s at home and miserable.

3. Rents too high for a cheap restaurant to open, so everybody’s mad and pointing fingers,

4. Can’t find daycare, because it’s too expense for the daycare to rent a commercial property,

10 years from now … North Dakota has separated from the United States and has used its nuclear weapons against the Cameroon city of Yaoundé. Few people could have predicated this.

You really need two different laws about driving, one set for urban, and one set for rural. In large downtowns, the speed limits are under 40km/h, and a start/stop traffic. In such places an electric golf cart would be fine. Getting city drivers out of gas guzzling SUVs should be a priority. You don’t need a dually pickup in downtown Toronto.

Electric golf carts should be legalized in most major cities like Toronto. It’s good enough for the city, to commute and get groceries.

For rural areas in Canada people need very fuel efficient transport. Encourage people to use motorcycles in good weather. Allow Kei trucks.
Also for rural kids: Sweden: agricultural vehicles allows kids 15 and older to drive cars without a proper driver’s licence, as long as the vehicle has been altered to have a maximum speed of 30 kilometres per hour. France: sans permis cars are not allowed to go faster than 45 km/h, but can be driven by anyone with a license.

The vast majority of car trips are about 10km. A bicycle would work for most of them. I personally think that electric golf carts in major cities should be legalized. They’ll be the ideal grocery getter, and short commuter vehicle. Speed is limited to 40km/h on them.

The car industry spends billions of dollars a year convincing people that cars are freedom. That you can drive anywhere and do anything in a car. Sadly the reality is that most of the time people are stuck in traffic or looking for a parking space, in cities. Once you start thinking out the car mentality, you realize you can hop on a train for a vacation, do most of your shopping close by if you live in a city.

Ireland looked like the rain forest in Vancouver 8,000 years ago, but all the trees were cut down. Now it is flat and windy.