Hacker News Reader

Comment by decafninja | Hacker News Reader

Always love how any thread on Uber or Lyft inevitably contains a debate about Uber/Lyft versus taxicabs and how someone’s have had bad experiences and vow never to use one or the other.

Also inevitably someone chiming in about how cars in general are evil incarnate and everyone must convert to public transportation and bicycles.

View on HN

Never seen anyone classifiy personal cars as evil incarnate. Extremely damaging to humans, inefficient and full of negative externalities, yes.

Alas this has nothing to do with the post.

I had a car, that was in fact evil incarnate. It ate four transmissions, three engines, and managed to destroy six CV joints before the manufacturer put a lemon wood stake through it's black, little, mechanical heart. It had a sixth sense. It knew exactly where to break down. It would bide it's time until you were at least eight miles from civilization, and had no cell phone coverage. Then it would seize up, with the engine frozen in gear, so you were left with the choice, stay with the car and wait for someone to help, or leave it, guaranteeing you'd have to pay for a tow and impound.

You haven't engaged with even ONE concrete argument; ideally, you would scan all arguments and engage with in good faith the very best argument. Or alternatively just say: nope, not interested.

But you just strawmaned against nothing. Not so great.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com