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There's a lot of old people in SF who struggle to even walk to the end of a block for a bus stop. A society still needs some solution for picking Grandma up at
by Talanes 6y ago
There's a lot of old people in SF who struggle to even walk to the end of a block for a bus stop. A society still needs some solution for picking Grandma up at her door and dropping her off at Thanksgiving.
- rwmj 6y agoIncredibly there are countries in the world which are not car centric where people have infirm grandparents.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoI wonder what the impact of reduced car ownership is on increased mobility in the elderly population. It wouldn't surprise me if this was correlated.
- rtlfe 6y agoFor one obvious example, the people who legitimately need to rely on cars will spend less time sitting in traffic.
- asdff 6y agoOften the elderly live with family so they are much better attended overall than most in the U.S., and wouldn't need to pick up their own prescriptions themselves in the first place.
- rtlfe 6y agoI said "most people" won't need cars. I think you'd agree that most people do not struggle to walk short distances.
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