I dream of a future where societes manage to price in all externalities into the objects they produce. This of course requires us to be(come) more honest about the hidden costs to society each and every objects and its usage brings with itself.

What we do with that knowledge is another question, but right now my feeling is a lot of bad actors skew the picture to make themselves look good while regular people are left to breath the dust.

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tim333 2 days ago | parent [-]

Tricky to do accurately though. Like a car driven occasionally in the countryside may cause little damage from brake dust, a cab in a city center a lot.

	▲	atoav a day ago \| parent [-]
		Not necessarily: You get a mix of average representative driving profiles, drive that with a vehicle and measure how much particles are emitted. This is how exhaust emissions are already measured. In practise the biggest danger is that manufacturers game that system like VW did by recognizing a test environment and adjusting accordingly.