1. Larger vehicles pose a much greater threat to pedestrians and cyclists, both from frequency and consequence of incidents.
2. Tire emissions are more toxic than exhaust [1] and tire wear is dramatically greater on heavier vehicles. This is about air pollution in the city, not climate change globally.
Passwords need to be sent both with the request, and to the requestor. I think GP is referring to sending credentials to the service making the request.
It is far better to give service XYZ a time-bound and scope limited token to perform a request than a user's username and password.
Few people have screens as high resolution as even a mediocre phone camera.
Before someone brings up future screen tech, there are additional reasons that's not a trivial workaround. Additionally there's a higher benefit to having high resolution cameras which have a wide field of view and the user may want to zoom in on the physical data vs a screen where the zooming happens in software.
Only 19% of electricity generated today in the US is from coal, trending toward 0. Then consider larger fossil fuel power plants are far more efficient than the tiny engines in vehicles.
"Coal is used to power electric vehicles," is an argument that is more noise than signal.
2. Tire emissions are more toxic than exhaust [1] and tire wear is dramatically greater on heavier vehicles. This is about air pollution in the city, not climate change globally.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...