Technology Holy Wars are Coordination Problems - https://gwern.net/holy-war
Reread this by chance, noticed a clear analogy can be drawn to battles over transport technologies, not just software. My choice of bicycle and yours of an SUV are not independent choices - one of our ecosystems becoming dominant will make life harder for the other's choice. The conflict for space, and why the stakes are so high, is more obvious in the transport sphere. But gives an interesting new perspective.
@jroper My neighbour and her partner are my new heroes — they turned up at an event we were at, on their e-scooters, and use them everywhere
My partner and I have been pretty smug about our e-bikes ("it's our second car") and truly everything is 10% of costs and resources … but this put me in my place
For context: The car went 6 months on a single tank in 2020 and is a (tax-friendly*) fringe benefit in my partner's job. I went car-free in 2002.
* yes, I know. Me too.
(2) "From the perspective of bitcreep, attempts at making peace by bending over backwards to improve modularization and try to support multiple ecosystems in parallel are nothing but self-sabotaging folly"
- helping to write a WalkSydney submission on a new motorway project, and this may be an all-too-accurate description of the project's attempts to shoehorn in an 'active transport corrider' and our attempts to improve said ATC - in parallel with 4 extra lanes of road...