Aren't horses stupid expensive?

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Biodegradable!

I mean, so are cars.

Cats Cars aren't nearly as expensive in upkeep. There is a very good reason people started to switch to cars even before they were a lot faster than horses

Horses are incredibly costly to keep & maintain, and consume your entire life to care for them. Have fun with that, out on your ranch which you'll also need a few extra million dollars to acquire.

True, cats just need a litterbox and kibble and they’re pretty much set.

The ones that are big enough to ride are very expensive again though.

A horse took a shit on the sidewalk at an intersection near me and the city took so long to clean it that it had decomposed into dirt already.

Yeah, unfortunately.

They automated the cleaning process by simply having the mess decompose.

Just feed them the drivers that cut you off in traffic instead of buying meat.

Where I live they just would have fined the rider, as it is his duty to clean it up.

Also, on the poop-side, at least horse droppings are as non-critical as this type of stuff can be.

Horse-automation sucks, though.

Oscillating between taking a food break when spotting some favorite green and becoming mortally frightened by a moving leaf, rising up on the hindlegs and galloping away in the opposite direction.

Aren't horses stupid [...]?

Yes.

But a car can't make more cars if you have two of them.

Have fun with that, out on your ranch

That actually does sound fun, though.

Fuck your Honda Civic I've a horse outside

Yeah but that won’t stop me from trying.

Don't forget stopping to take a shit just whenever. I love horses, but getting them out of an urban setting was probably the best aspect of the industrial revolution.

But the horse automation can get you home on autopilot if it's feeding time.

Have you heard of bicycles?

Just like self driving EVs then

My wife had a horse. I had a Mazda RX—8.

The Mazda was used daily for my commute, averaged about 19mpg (iirc), required regular tops ups with mineral oil, cost a fortune in road fund license etc.

It was still cheaper per month than the horse that didn’t get ridden much and spent its life in a field of its own food.

Humans will always find a way to torture an animal for their own convenience

The only good use for a horse is sausages.

300-400 ish bucks where I live, it's way more expensive to keep a horse than to buy one, even for a short time

My EV doesn't freeze and die in winter and can be parked outside on the street for a week without me needing to leave the apartment. Just imagining riding a horse in an extremely cold spring rain hurts to think about.

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I mean, I like my EV... But bragging about it's performance in winter? Not the sales pitch I would go with. I get 1/3 the range of a mild day, and I'm not blasting the heat.

Damn, what EV do you have? I have a '23 Bolt and I only see about a 30% reduction in efficiency in below freezing. The performance of mine in winter was fair, and even in blizzard conditions in Chicago at 20F it still got the job done. But yea, the heater will consume a lot of battery regardless. Charging is my only concern, and that's solved by the fact that I have a supercharger not too far I can use once a week early in the morning for cheap $0.35 per kWh.

Mr Hands?

What kind of shitty EV you got brotha? I also see about 30%–50% decrease in range on a Volvo EX40 in like -15–-20°C temperatures, for a car which is built upon a pretty old platform.

I mean sure there's all of that... But consider this:

1. A horse doesn't play music, or pick up where I left reading on my audiobook.

2. They don't have mirrors or a seatbelt, so how safe can a horse REALLY be? 🤔

Nope

¢35/kWh is cheap? That's the price of a kWh with a subscription at Ionity. I park and charge at this parking spot with a charger where you pay by the hour. ¢14/hr. 😅 It's close to my gym so whenever I'm there for like 3–4h I just park there and fillerup for basically change. 👌

And almost as dangerous as a Tesla! Hey-o!

Where do you live? I think we might have different ideas of what cold is.

OK. So bicycles have, as the name suggests, two wheels. The front wheel can be rotated for steering, while the rear wheel is for acceleration. You accelerate by alternately pushing down the pedals located approximately in the middle. Force is transferred from the pedals to the rear wheel usually via a chain, but other solutions, like a belt or axle, exist.
Since the wheels are in line the construction is prone to tipping to the side, so keeping the balance while sitting on it takes some practice.
But once you get the hang of it it's one of the most versatile modes of transportation, with specialised bicycles (or "bikes" for short) for off-road use, extra light ones for racing, etc.

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Holy shit let's get someone to make them! We will be rich!

Apart from April fool's jokes I haven't heard of automated bicycles yet...

The horse self driving mode is pretty good though, with its built-in hazard avoidance and lane keeping.

always finding their way up onto the roof or gravitationally pulled into that one stupid post they could easily walk around.

damnit Roach.

Came here for this 🤣

I heard the nav is shit though for the self driving. Basically always just takes you home.

I think the convenience of them knowing how to take you home if you pass out drunk on one is outweighed by the fact it consumes a ridiculous amount of hay and makes just as much poop everywhere it pleases.

And the horse didn't even have a rotary engine!

Even though I don’t own it any more I still feel obliged to point out the difference….

Not sure how this has been out for over a decade and it's my first time seeing it now. What a banger!

Yeah but a Wankel X-8 doesn't sound nearly as cool

A velocipede, of sorts!

Yes my volt has shat itself once or twice as well