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Uh.. Cars?
by cheez 10y ago
Uh.. Cars?
- jpgvm 10y agoAre you insinuating that people don't need cars? I don't need a car. But that is because I am wealthy and am able to live very close to my place for work. But there are people that most definitely -need- cars. If anything not needing a car is a luxury (atleast in my country).
- pohl 10y agoEven in the case of mere want there are standards of road-worthiness, classes of licenses, etc.
- ryanackley 10y agoPeople "need" cars because much of western civil infrastructure is built around the assumption that cars or something similar will always be around. I think you could argue that without cars everyone would be better off. Less pollution, people would save money on gas, more public real estate for parks, etc. not to mention less people dying from accidents.
- TylerE 10y agoHow much productivity would society lose because people can't work anywhere more than a few miles from where they live?
- tracker1 10y agoPublic transit, not to mention many jobs should be able to remote work. Before cars were very common it was also common to build communities around smaller shops that were closer. There are a lot of people in and around NYC that would argue differently.
- pohl 10y agoIt's not obvious in which direction you hope the mention of automobiles will cut. I can imagine it cutting both ways.