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The average U.S. car carries an average of 1.56 people and weighs an average, for new cars, of almost two tons.
by spats1990 7y ago
The average U.S. car carries an average of 1.56 people and weighs an average, for new cars, of almost two tons.
- pif 7y agoYes, and ... ? What's exactly your point?
- dwnvoted2hell 7y agoThe average U.S. car carries an average of 1.56 people and weighs an average, for new cars, of almost two tons.
- spats1990 7y agoJust thought I'd toss it in there as a sort of topping or garnish for the article. Private cars in urban areas are incredibly inefficient from just about any direction you choose to view it from.
- annoyingnoob 7y agoAll cars are inefficient, they use most of their power just to move themselves. Biking on the roads between my house and my work is suicidal.
- peterwwillis 7y agoWell they're efficient for use cases that any other transportation option doesn't work for. Just like a bus is very efficient at moving 80 people in one direction, a car is efficient at moving one person in 80 directions. If we didn't have private cars, businesses couldn't efficiently do things like deliveries, and individual people couldn't make trips that are outside the scope of public transit. So to replace them entirely we still need to fill those gaps.
- spats1990 7y agoMaybe my British English is hindering communication of my point here, because by "private car" I meant "car for private personal i.e. non-commercial use" as I've noted elsewhere, in many areas there is no way around use of private cars due to the lack of population density.
- dashundchen 7y agoI read it as cars don't belong in urban areas. They are incredibly inefficient energy and space wise. Look at the average downtown area of an American city and see how much is devoted to surface parking lots, garages, highways, interchanges, arterials. Take a look at this site and you'll see aerials of American cities before and after cars, and how incredible amounts of density, productivity, and housing were destroyed: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/ http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/ https://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8ac970c-800wi https://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8... It's a loop with positive feedback - the more space given over to cars, the less dense destinations become, the more cars become required. Conversely the denser places become, the easier it is to makes places bike, transit and pedestrian friendly, and the more difficult it becomes to drive.
- Sharlin 7y agoThe point is, of course, that it’s one of the least efficient modes of transport ever devised, while at the same time there are more people around than ever before. That’s an absurd equation.