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Your wish will be summoned. Just make sure to never have kids and never fall on your luck.

Waterluvian 7y ago
Are you implying this replaces mass transit? I don't understand how that makes any sense. Why didn't cars replace mass transit? Why hasn't Uber killed mass transit?
- jonstewart 7y ago
  Cars did replace mass transit in many cities. Many cities had better mass transit decades ago than they do now. And ridesharing companies have had deleterious effects on mass transit. They haven’t killed it, but studies are starting to show there’s been some harm and, at the same time, that ridesharing contributes to worsening congestion.
adolph 7y ago
Embrace the power of “and.” Public transit can coexist with whatever this future thing will be called.
- wpietri 7y ago
  Maybe. But the more well-off people crawl into cocooned experiences, the less they care about public infrastructure. Look, for example, at how suburbs not only often lack public transit themselves, but work to fight regional transit.
  - pb7 7y ago
    Well-off people are already the ones (involuntarily) funding the public infrastructure. No need to guilt trip any further.
    - wpietri 7y ago
      They are funding it less and less. And things like the wave of white flight and suburbanization in the 1960s and 1970s make it clear how comfortable well-off white people are doing that. In any case, I'm not arguing for guilt trips as a means of solving the problem. Instead, I think the right solution is the bedrock of any community: shared experience.
rorykoehler 7y ago
Why no kids? I'm a dad without a car. I never wish I had a car.
- jiofih 7y ago
  It’s about not having to “deal” with kids on the bus.
baddox 7y ago
I don't quite understand your argument. Should I enjoy sitting near people having violent mental health crises because I might one day have a mental health crisis? It seems to me that the compassionate approach would be to support the availability of mental health care. Being content with sharing public space with people suffering from mental health problems does not seem like a compassionate or helpful approach.
- true_religion 7y ago
  You? Probably not but true OP was taking about kids on cellphones, and people who looked poor.
puranjay 7y ago
How is it ab absolutist either/or situation? You can have public buses as well as a private fleet of self driving cars.

Are you implying this replaces mass transit? I don't understand how that makes any sense. Why didn't cars replace mass transit? Why hasn't Uber killed mass transit?

jonstewart 7y ago
Cars did replace mass transit in many cities. Many cities had better mass transit decades ago than they do now. And ridesharing companies have had deleterious effects on mass transit. They haven’t killed it, but studies are starting to show there’s been some harm and, at the same time, that ridesharing contributes to worsening congestion.

adolph 7y ago

Embrace the power of “and.” Public transit can coexist with whatever this future thing will be called.

wpietri 7y ago
Maybe. But the more well-off people crawl into cocooned experiences, the less they care about public infrastructure. Look, for example, at how suburbs not only often lack public transit themselves, but work to fight regional transit.
- pb7 7y ago
  Well-off people are already the ones (involuntarily) funding the public infrastructure. No need to guilt trip any further.
  - wpietri 7y ago
    They are funding it less and less. And things like the wave of white flight and suburbanization in the 1960s and 1970s make it clear how comfortable well-off white people are doing that. In any case, I'm not arguing for guilt trips as a means of solving the problem. Instead, I think the right solution is the bedrock of any community: shared experience.

rorykoehler 7y ago

Why no kids? I'm a dad without a car. I never wish I had a car.

jiofih 7y ago
It’s about not having to “deal” with kids on the bus.

baddox 7y ago

I don't quite understand your argument. Should I enjoy sitting near people having violent mental health crises because I might one day have a mental health crisis? It seems to me that the compassionate approach would be to support the availability of mental health care. Being content with sharing public space with people suffering from mental health problems does not seem like a compassionate or helpful approach.

true_religion 7y ago
You? Probably not but true OP was taking about kids on cellphones, and people who looked poor.

puranjay 7y ago

How is it ab absolutist either/or situation? You can have public buses as well as a private fleet of self driving cars.