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To be fair, the "SUVs" that are being sold are effectively the same as station wagons of the past (but smaller and with better gas mileage). Hopefully self-dri
by aperson_hello 5y ago
To be fair, the "SUVs" that are being sold are effectively the same as station wagons of the past (but smaller and with better gas mileage).
Hopefully self-driving cars will get us out of this pit of car-centric infrastructure, but that's a solution that's been a few years out for the past decade.
- plorg 5y agoCan you outline how this is supposed to free us from car-centric infrastructure? Unless it's coupled with style kind of Uber-subscription dystopia we would still need room to park all of these vehicles. While downtown parking can be a problem, garages aren't, and neither of these problems is on there scale of the larger infrastructure problems. The biggest problems with car-centric infrastructure are that they require a huge amount of ever-larger roads to funnel people (in cars) often tens of miles to do anything. Even in the rent-a-taxi scenario you would still need these roads, which would probably need more maintenance, not less. And all of that sprawl has knock-on effects as roads create divisions in communities, and low-density housing, enabled by car infrastructure, means you have and know fewer neighbors.
- mark-r 5y agoAt least the Uber-style infrastructure doesn't require oversizing everything. Even if my car is used 90% of the time for commuting by myself, it has to be big enough for the other 10% of the time when I'm taking the family and our luggage.