• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    You said cars are a preferable mode of transport for people with physical disabilities, and used a semicolon to imply the same for people with autism. That’s true in some cases, but the way you presented it is reductive and misleading, and it erases people like me and most other disabled people. Most disabilities benefit from public transit and walkability more than cars. Cars make elderly people lose their mobility faster. Cars cause obesity. It’s easier to ride the train in a wheelchair than drive a car. Wheelchair cars are expensive and hard to use. What you presented as absolute truth is false most of the time.

    And I don’t think we should ban Dutch style microcars, which are great for disabled mobility and travel at bicycle speeds.