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Given that Elon Musk and Tesla are tied to each other at the hip, he cannot possibly admit the following: America's obsession with the car is a mistake that wi
by village-idiot 8y ago
Given that Elon Musk and Tesla are tied to each other at the hip, he cannot possibly admit the following:
America's obsession with the car is a mistake that will need to be corrected in this century.
I am not saying "ban all the cars". Cars are extremely useful tools. But America has been running on the implicit idea that everyone must own a car, and that all transport must be handled in a personally owned vehicle. This is both unsustainable ecologically, economically, and infrastructurally (I know that's not a word).
Creating a "mass transit" system to drag personal cars around at 155mph to "solve" congestion is just a laughable half step that's clearly worse than doing nothing at all.
- A2017U1 8y agoWhy is a private company responsible for the failings of government?
- smt88 8y agoI have no idea how you read GP in a way that implied that Musk is responsible for the transportation issues in the US. They were just criticizing the idea that Musk has found a good, future-proof solution.
- A2017U1 8y agoCompared to doing nothing at all it's seems like an improvement over the status quo. Very easy to criticise, but the simplicity of a road into the ground vs numerous subway stations/surrounding infrastructure is an order of magnitude different in terms of cost and time.
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- cimmanom 8y agoAnd yet a subway system can transport several orders of magnitude more people in the same space.