3 ms·
Just 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 d
by spats1990 7y ago
Just 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.