Yeah, but it's a silly comparison anyway. Horses weren't used for personal transport around town. They were used to pull heavy loads or crossing great distances.
When it comes to personal transport the current best invention is the safety bicycle. It's truly a marvel and can never be celebrated enough. A tubular frame, ball bearings, cable actuated brakes and gears, spoke tensioned wheels and pneumatic tyres provide a stiff yet lightweight machine that needs very little maintenance and no more energy than walking.
But unfortunately the car used all of that technology in a hilariously inefficient way, and unbridled use of fossil fuels meant it was attractive to use a vehicle that needs a million joules just to make it move without anything in it. If we weren't so greedy but instead considered each gain carefully we might have never ended up with cars.
But, alas, we're no better than a dog who got access to the food cupboard and made itself sick
When it comes to personal transport the current best invention is the safety bicycle. It's truly a marvel and can never be celebrated enough. A tubular frame, ball bearings, cable actuated brakes and gears, spoke tensioned wheels and pneumatic tyres provide a stiff yet lightweight machine that needs very little maintenance and no more energy than walking.
But unfortunately the car used all of that technology in a hilariously inefficient way, and unbridled use of fossil fuels meant it was attractive to use a vehicle that needs a million joules just to make it move without anything in it. If we weren't so greedy but instead considered each gain carefully we might have never ended up with cars.
But, alas, we're no better than a dog who got access to the food cupboard and made itself sick