And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.
(To be fair, he’s not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat – but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)
Sadly 1km is not the dumbest distant i have seen
Back when I walked my kids to school a parent who shared a fence with the school would drive them around a piece of grass the the front of the school and drop them of. The path through the grass was along side their side garden wall and shorter than the road they drove.
Of course it was a huge 4x4 to boot
People will go very far to show others their status
Isn’t it true that once a car is built, it’s basically better for the environment to drive it until its wheels fall off instead of scrapping it to buy any new one (even electric) though ? He’s right that a lot of the time these schemes are thinly veiled auto industry handouts to stimulate the economy, instead of actual environmental regulations.
for one this severely depends on when it was built, old cars basically just convert 90% of the fuel into air pollution and spew it straight out the exhaust pipe, while modern cars actually use the fuel to go forward and provided the catalytic converter is in good shape they filter out some of the nastiness.
The environmental break even period for EVs is getting shorter and shorter as the power grids get cleaner and cleaner.
It was a somewhat solid argument against buying new EVs to replace working ICE cars over 10 years ago, but now it’s really not.
better for the environment
Yes.
Better for your nerves? No.
Also you have to keep your vehicle in a state where it can drive safely, which leads to maintenance costs that rise over time. But safe for your environment as in the people around you, whether you reach your destination alive is of less importance.
ITT: Some people want OOP’s wife and kid to walk to school on what’s essentially a highway. Others seem to realize that there might be a reason why OOP’s wife needs the car, and given that OOP’s done 65000 km in 15 years, he’s not exactly doing a whole lot of driving with it.
There’s also suggestions of using public transport, but if that even exists for their route, OOP’s wife can’t exactly just go walk on a bus, she could get gang raped, because this is Delhi.
We’re not talking about a big SUV either. It’s a tiny little hatchback, the most city-friendly car possible:
The situation sucks for everyone involved. Whereas in the west we’re used to it being just a transit availability issue, in parts of the world there’s also the safety issue. Yes, the famous gang-rape-set-on-fire-murder case was 13 years ago, but that doesn’t mean Delhi is magically safe now. It’s still a huge issue.
If he walked then he’d realise how dangerous carbrained roads were and maybe be a bit more supportive of bicycle lanes and pedestrian roads.
1 km can be walked in 10 min. A car is an extreme waste of time and money for that.
It seems like he’s suffering under the system and not enjoying it. I don’t think he’s saying he likes driving. People who drive cars like that usually do it out of necessity not the desire to drive.
The has got to be an alternate route that is nicer than that, that’s wild.
But I get that sone areas are incredibly car centric and leave you little choice.
Bro your title is misleading.
Indian man upset that the government is forcing him to buy a new car
Your title makes the man sound like he’s complaining about his wife
That’s a fair point actually. I’ll change it
1km 🤡
Alright, so I’m not a regular here, I’m a Gearhead who lives in an Unfortunately car centric area. I like cars, I think they’re neat, I HATE that we need them to commute.
I don’t understand why cars are being banned after an arbitrary time limit. 15 years for petrol? Until year I drove a 30 year old petrol Toyota which pulled almost 50MPG on the highway, could have done better with some simple mods but I live in the mountains and needed the power for uphill.
I understand the desire to keep older more polluting vehicles off the road but arbitrarily declaring vehicles EOL because of their age is ridiculous.
Am I missing the point here? I’d appreciate some input because this feels like a bad move all around.
The government’s purported logic is that emissions standards from 15 years ago were lax and are much tighter now and therefore vehicles of that age are contributing to pollution. On the face of it that makes sense; Delhi’s AQI is one of the worst in the world, and emissions standards here were pretty meh until the 2010s.
In reality it’s because the auto industry wants you to buy new cars. That’s it. If the government was actually focused on limiting pollution they’d be investing heavily in efficient public transit and walking/biking infrastructure and enforcing things like a congestion tax to push people towards said options, but they’re just offloading it on to regular people so they can make a fuckton of money without having to spend any.
all car bans should come with free bikes and public transport
