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Cars and the internal combustion engine coupled with easy finance is the problem. Cars as we have them today have to go and the new self-driving robot cars powe

Cars and the internal combustion engine coupled with easy finance is the problem. Cars as we have them today have to go and the new self-driving robot cars powered on electricity really do have to take over soon. I can go out and spend £££ hiring a fancy car today and spend the next three years crawling around town looking for somewhere to park the thing, spewing fumes into the faces of the kids going to school. So long as I pay the taxes nobody is going to complain about the noise and pollution. Is it not possible for at least one country on planet earth to restrict the total number of ICE cars? If you had to scrap a car to buy a new car then the total number of cars would not go up, the roads would not get any heavier for people who already have a car so there is self interest for everyone. New electric self-driving options could cater for young people who do not already own cars. Coupled with this there could be a reduction in on-street parking, so you can then have roads that can be safe for cyclists and not lined with tin boxes on each side.

Symbiote 9y ago
From February, Singapore will have a limit on the number of cars. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41730778 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41730778
icc97 9y ago
I too wish that we could basically get all amateur drivers off the roads and replace them with with automated electric cars. But there are problems. One of the issues with self driving cars is that traffic will probably go up because all elderly people (as well as disabled) can now buy a self driving car. Cars are a major source of freedom for people, so trying to restrict what you can do with them is going to be political suicide. One of the things I thought about was only allowing professional (i.e. taxi, bus, lorry) and automatic cars on motorways. This should reduce accidents on motorways to almost zero which certainly here in Belgium is a massive cause of economic loss through time wasted stuck in traffic. But even this I doubt is possible. You'd have to have some massively expensive / privacy invading system to police it.

Symbiote 9y ago

From February, Singapore will have a limit on the number of cars. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41730778 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41730778

icc97 9y ago

I too wish that we could basically get all amateur drivers off the roads and replace them with with automated electric cars. But there are problems. One of the issues with self driving cars is that traffic will probably go up because all elderly people (as well as disabled) can now buy a self driving car. Cars are a major source of freedom for people, so trying to restrict what you can do with them is going to be political suicide. One of the things I thought about was only allowing professional (i.e. taxi, bus, lorry) and automatic cars on motorways. This should reduce accidents on motorways to almost zero which certainly here in Belgium is a massive cause of economic loss through time wasted stuck in traffic. But even this I doubt is possible. You'd have to have some massively expensive / privacy invading system to police it.