Once we replace cars what do we do with all of them?

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    I think the transition away from cars will be slow enough that this wont be a problem. In the ideal situation, people will just stop replacing their broken down cars.

    • Lifted_loweredOP
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      11 year ago

      Yeah but what do we do with all the steel, rubber, aluminum, & plastic involved in all these cars?

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        We already deal with it somehow. Scrap them for metal, recycle rubber and probably just throw away plastic, because plastic recycling is pretty crappy.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I guess we’ll have to recycle what we can, and put the rest in a landfill. Just the same as what we do with run down cars today.

        I guess recycling will be a bit harder because we will not be using the materials to make new cars.

        • @[email protected]M
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          21 year ago

          Yeah that’s probably true, but we will need new stuff. More public transport like trains and so on. I would assume that we can recycle quite some stuff there.

          Also a lot of other things need these resources and I am sure that at least a lot of the could be used to enhance the world further

  • Corhen
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    51 year ago

    In the end, the goal should never be “lets get rid of every single car”, but rather “lets shift from a Car-centric design, to a active transportation & healthy living-centric design”

  • @bikesarethefuture
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    51 year ago

    reuse all the material to build houses , computers more useful stuff

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Fuck them obviously, I thought that was the point?

    Serious answer tho: I have no idea honestly, we have made so many of them. Strip them for raw materials and re purpose it all?

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I’d turn the alternators into electric motors. Seats would make good desk chairs! Obviously stereo parts could be used for home audio stuff.