3 ms·
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars
by 1_2__3 10y ago
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars are our only future!" and "there's no point in trying to get the government to spend money on roads!" are the standard refrains on this and other sites frequented by millenials.
- clock_tower 10y agoWhat companies do you have in mind? I'm not aware of any organization that spends heavily on lobbyists and would stand to profit from more trains; train manufacturing is generally a small part of big conglomerates, like Siemens and GE. (This is the product of long, frustrated research on exactly that point.) If it's self-driving cars you're thinking of instead of trains (and self-driving cars are a ludicrous solution, with all the drawbacks and none of the advantages of both cars and trains), they're a fad, and they sort of market themselves. When they fail to deliver in 5-10 years, we'll be free of that crap. The majority of this sentiment is the millenial preference for living in cities like traditional civilized peoples, instead of out in plastic suburbs with no commerce except retail chains and no social activities except TV, Evangelical megachurches, and sportsball. Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere might be worth reading on this subject.