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Sad this is down voted, IIAOPSW has a great point. We as a society pay a lot to support a car infrastructure. From crappy land usage for parking lots, which ne

Sad this is down voted, IIAOPSW has a great point. We as a society pay a lot to support a car infrastructure. From crappy land usage for parking lots, which necessitates increased property taxes on everyone else, to land that could be used for housing/businesses instead being used for roads. Add on top of that the number of injuries, and how much time we have to spend in cars because we live in a society designed around cars, personal vehicles are a huge dead weight cost. I'm not saying everyone needs to give up their cars, but families having more cars than people is insane.

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> We as a society pay a lot to support a car infrastructure. With a large part of the world having had lockdowns, I’ve been surprised at the readiness to go back to normal where cars are concerned. As someone currently locked down, the silence is amazing. I hear the odd power tool, or pet, lots of bird song and maybe some noisey human. I hear push bikes coming down the hill, long before they pass me. The typical city noise of cars, engines, tyres, horns etc is so very very obnoxious, quite apart from the points raised above. There was an interesting thread here on HN recently on a link between road noise and dementia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499415