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Imagine if someone invented cars today? Hey everyone, we want to make you use this killing machine, that kills a million people every year around the world dire

Imagine if someone invented cars today? Hey everyone, we want to make you use this killing machine, that kills a million people every year around the world directly, many more indirectly. We just need to clear out the parks currently around your houses to turn into horrible bleak roads, so they can bring the pollution directly to your door.

LoSboccacc 7y ago
mass transit will never be capillary enough. you know what they did in old European cities when the started blocking city centers to public transit? they introduced 8 seater autobus to have enough and be capillary enough to get people where they needed to. mass transit can't do that, unless at some point you want very very tiny trams and tramways everywhere instead of roads everywhere or would you prefer to live in a city where the job and housing market develops near a handful main connected roads and everywhere else you travel more than you work? > [safety concerns] on a side note, imagine the amount of deaths from not having ambulances or fire trucks and the price gouging of transit company to reach major productivity center. if someone invented car today those would still be great selling points for them
- adrianN 7y ago
  Mass transit + bikes or scooters is pretty good. Millions of people in cities don't own cars. It's good enough for many people and there is still lots of room for improvement.
scarejunba 7y ago
But in exchange you get to go anywhere in America. You aunt in San Jose you haven't seen in months because it's a day's horse-ride. Well you can pop over for lunch, and be home for dinner. You can go see Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day. Your groceries will be 10 mins away. No. If someone invented cars today, he'd be considered a hero. We'd talk about him in history books.
- kranner 7y ago
  > Your groceries will be 10 mins away. I doubt your groceries would be more than 10 minutes away even if no cars had been invented. Zoning practices would change to allow more shops distributed across residential areas. That would make more sense than requiring people to ride an hour on horseback. But yes, the supermarket would be much less 'super' with a much smaller selection of goods.
  - mcguire 7y ago
    And more expensive. Like buying everything at a convenience store.
- scatters 7y ago
  You think there wouldn't be trains?
- francisofascii 7y ago
  If we had an adequate bus system, I think you could still visit Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day.
hazeii 7y ago
It's a great thought. Just to make it more fun, let's fit the cars with tanks of inflammable liquid and then drive them really fast, like say 60mph, along the same roads in opposite directions at the same time! What could possibly go wrong?
tjansen 7y ago
It's kind of true, but how could you let people ride bikes? They don't even have airbags.

LoSboccacc 7y ago

mass transit will never be capillary enough. you know what they did in old European cities when the started blocking city centers to public transit? they introduced 8 seater autobus to have enough and be capillary enough to get people where they needed to. mass transit can't do that, unless at some point you want very very tiny trams and tramways everywhere instead of roads everywhere or would you prefer to live in a city where the job and housing market develops near a handful main connected roads and everywhere else you travel more than you work? > [safety concerns] on a side note, imagine the amount of deaths from not having ambulances or fire trucks and the price gouging of transit company to reach major productivity center. if someone invented car today those would still be great selling points for them

adrianN 7y ago
Mass transit + bikes or scooters is pretty good. Millions of people in cities don't own cars. It's good enough for many people and there is still lots of room for improvement.

scarejunba 7y ago

But in exchange you get to go anywhere in America. You aunt in San Jose you haven't seen in months because it's a day's horse-ride. Well you can pop over for lunch, and be home for dinner. You can go see Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day. Your groceries will be 10 mins away. No. If someone invented cars today, he'd be considered a hero. We'd talk about him in history books.

kranner 7y ago
> Your groceries will be 10 mins away. I doubt your groceries would be more than 10 minutes away even if no cars had been invented. Zoning practices would change to allow more shops distributed across residential areas. That would make more sense than requiring people to ride an hour on horseback. But yes, the supermarket would be much less 'super' with a much smaller selection of goods.
- mcguire 7y ago
  And more expensive. Like buying everything at a convenience store.
scatters 7y ago
You think there wouldn't be trains?
francisofascii 7y ago
If we had an adequate bus system, I think you could still visit Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day.

hazeii 7y ago

It's a great thought. Just to make it more fun, let's fit the cars with tanks of inflammable liquid and then drive them really fast, like say 60mph, along the same roads in opposite directions at the same time! What could possibly go wrong?

tjansen 7y ago

It's kind of true, but how could you let people ride bikes? They don't even have airbags.