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That just sounds like a band-aid solution, what is needed are walkable cities, and decent public transportation.
by Franciscouzo 7y ago
That just sounds like a band-aid solution, what is needed are walkable cities, and decent public transportation.
- megaremote 7y agoThat just sounds like a huge change that will take a long time and a lot of money to do.
- uoaei 7y agoWith all the discussion on HN about "technical debt" I wonder why the same sort of strategies to avoid technical debt aren't applied outside the domain of software engineering. Sure, it's effort now to do the smarter-but-harder thing, but the payoff will be huge in a few decades. Sure beats having a police state that is precipitated by goody-two-shoes demanding video surveillance of nearly all public roads in the USA.
- badwolf 7y agoProbably because leaders have to get elected, and "we're going to work through this backlog" is far less exciting in general to "new features!"
- ddingus 7y agoWell, in the US, that means jobs, and we've got the money. Done right, it makes us worth more and won't even have a meaningful impact on the overall value of currency.
- bogomipz 7y agoWell New York City is the epitome of a "walkable city" and also has "decent public transportation." Yet there's no shortage of either cars and drivers behind the wheel texting.