Yes, but the all new 2028 Ford Mustang Mach-E comes with a HEPA cabin filter and racing tires guaranteed to last half the time they would on a Corolla. You can take advantage now of Ford’s More Than You Can Afford Event, and get yourself into a Mustang with Always-Low* payments across a 122 month term!
~* Always-Low payments subject to increase; does not include seven nigh mandatory monthly subscriptions~
It’s so crazy that the 144 month term is only barely an exaggeration.
It’s not
You can finance a Maserati today for 180 months.
Woodside Payment: $2,395 for 180 month term
The tilde is so out of place but is it?
I love how the 12² isn’t explained, so it’s really just 144 months of payments.
Toss in the all-weather floor mats and you got a deal.
It’s long been known most of the microplastics come from tires and clothing.
The stuff from tires is in the air and the environment as road run off and the stuff from clothing is in the water from washing it.
This is where legislation is required, to start limiting tire dangerous particles emissions. 🤷♂️
Or we can just use publicly accessible information to find out who’s making these products and correct there.
I’d assume that all tires are more or less culprit - but yes, if better and worst tires are exposed, it’d be good.
I love cars. I also wish my city had realistic public transport options that worked for my commute.
Trains are the real solution.
Bro-dozer pickups weighing 9000+ pounds are the biggest problem.
This isn’t a hard problem to solve technicaly… it’s just a social problem.
Vehicles are now over weight and over powered. Laws could fix this. No one needs a 4000lb car with 600hp.
Weirdly, electric cars are also worse for tire abrasion since they tend to be heavier. Trains and electric bikes (in cities) seems like a good way to go
Heavier, and they generate a lot of instant torque. Small EVs don’t have this issue.
We need trains so bad
There was this chapter in an XKCD book talking about where does tire particles goes. From memory, it said “there are many answers to that question and none of them are good”.
So, there is plastic in our rubber tires? Interesting. Can we call it plas-rubber then and sound all futuristic at least?!
I don’t think we’ve used tree rubber in our car rubbers in a long time
Correct, it’s all been synthetic for a long, long time. And for what that’s worth, even if there were enough sources of natural latex in the world to support the global tire industry, we’d still have problems. In both cases, polymers are stabilized with sulfur in a process called vulcanization. I’m mostly sure that’s why tires don’t decompose under natural conditions.
People are working on it though: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11041115/
Yeah, there was a video a little while back that said that one of the only real sets of tyres that are pure rubber these days are plane tyres because of the huge strain put on them as soon as touchdown is made.
so, what alternative do we have to plastic tires? do we just go back to using extract from the rubber tree?
Reducing the use of cars would help.
If only there was a way
Steel tyres. They’d also look better!
Metal would wear out too fast on asphalt/concrete though. What if we used metal tyres on metal roads? Less friction, less abrasion! It’d be expensive though to replace the whole road. Maybe just a pair of strips the same width as the tyre spacing. Cars could even connect to each other to reduce aerodynamic drag… Nah, would never work
Cars that fly above the road
I don’t trust normal drivers, you really trust people to fly their cars safely?
I’m not talking about full blown flying. Just hover above the road a few feet.
Wouldn’t tire abrasion be rubber?
Urban air problems are many, so it’s better to not live in an Urb
For your health!
I live on the bleeding edge of a small town. This is reason #476 why I’ll never live in a city again.
Yep, it’s great to have room to breathe and do what you want, and still have a reasonable access to basic stuff nearby like groceries, general supplies. In the old days, living outside the city meant that it was hard to get anything that’s not common, boring, or basic. You’d have to drive to a Big City to get any kind of unusual stuff like skateboards or guitars. But we have online shopping now and you can get anything you want shipped to your doorstep, so I have no need for the city.
working to get food is also good for my health so i’ll keep living in the urb for the foreseeable future
“Jobs only exist in big cities” because no one else outside of cities is able to make a living… all areas other than cities must therefore be uninhabited
you know what happens when more people live together in one place and there are enough jobs for all the people living there? it becomes a city (it doesn’t need to be big, it only needs a lot of cars)
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It’s common knowledge they cause around 40% of microplastics
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I bet the people that did this research will be surprised to hear that I already knew this ages ago…
