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Cities just don't work if everyone drives their own personal car. And keeps it parked 90% of the time. Perhaps when autonomous cars arrive we'll be driven aroun
by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Cities just don't work if everyone drives their own personal car. And keeps it parked 90% of the time. Perhaps when autonomous cars arrive we'll be driven around more but right now public transport is faster, more convenient, cheaper.
[top gear race across London] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_POxZSkaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_POxZSkaU
“Transit requires sharing space with strangers, which is icky.”
Is this an American thing?? What about a sport stadium, music event, lots of strangers to share space with?
- lev99 9y agoIt's not only the car being parked, but the traffic during peak travel times that make cars bad. Roads filled with Autonomous cars might be 10x more efficient then roads filled with cars with drivers, but autonomous buses are 100x more efficient and trains can be 1000x more efficient.
- CaptSpify 9y agoDue to a lot of (stupid) reasons, public transportation in the US has a lot of homeless/drugged-out people on it. And due to crowding, you are often pressed up against them. It can be quite uncomfortable to listen to someone who smells like 3 day old liquor and urine tell you about how they hate all of the "niggers that keep taking the bus" (an actual quote said to me), while you are pushed up against them. My experience of public transportation in other countries has generally been way better.