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This just doesn't work outside of urban areas. Both rural and suburban need cars and America is built around that concept

• rootusrootus 7y ago
  And panning over Europe with Google satellite view suggests that Europe is also populated with plenty of people living a suburban lifestyle. Cars are going to be the predominant mode of transportation indefinitely.
  • qayxc 7y ago
    That's a tremendously short-sighted view. Luxembourg recently made public transport free to use in an attempt to reduce traffic. Privately owned cars and private transport will become a relic of the past soon enough. Claims like "Cars are going to be the predominant mode of transportation indefinitely" sound an awful lot like "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943) or "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years." (Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955). Just like Apple killed Nokia with a single product within two years, owning a car might become obsolete for the vast majority of people. It's also the most US-American-centric things to say: there are A LOT of countries where owning a car just isn't the norm - even in rural areas (1.35 BILLION Indians would agree, for example).
    • rootusrootus 7y ago
      I don't agree that it's shortsighted. Switching to mass transit for everything would be a regression. There is no way to make cars obsolete by replacing them with something functionally inferior.