I'm happy to see these statistics going in the right direction. There's a lot to learn for old car guys like me. Traffic was a problem on roads long before the

I'm happy to see these statistics going in the right direction. There's a lot to learn for old car guys like me. Traffic was a problem on roads long before the internet. It's not the car. It's how we've attempted to scale cars via highways and stroads at the expense of everything around us. I don't hate cars. They're not the problem. The problem with enjoying cars as a mode of commuting is that cars don't scale when the occupant-to-car ratio is 1:1, since the car is easily several times the size of one occupant. Cars could scale if the number of occupants was on average, greater than 1:1, as it is on planes, trains, and busses. One way to make cars scale like larger vehicles is to reduce their size toward a bicycle or motorcycle. This is obvious from observing denser parts of the world. The other way is HOV lanes. That hasn't worked well around here where I've frequently been the only one on the HOV in the middle of stop-and-go, multi-lane, rush-hour traffic for decades. The driver just made the decision not to carry more occupants under the guise of personal freedom. That's an error for which we all bear the burden. The hyperfocus on productivity, punctuality, and space-time in general is the problem with modern commute culture, ignoring the evolving dialectic on remote work. We did not create this, but we've certainly accepted it, - the triumph of commute-time over commune-time. We may not all be pickled in the same diminishing-returns-on-more-cars culture, but we can transition to an increasing-returns-on-less-cars culture and simply learn to transit the earth more creatively, meaningfully, and multi-modally. Commuting is a choice that should be optimized for the mutual benefit of self and society. I, for one, really enjoy being able to read on a bus or a train (leave the driving to them) - ignoring self-driving because I don't trust "them" any further than I can throw my near-autonomous medical device, because there isn't any greater sacrifice in my mind than the feeling of agency that arises from having my hands on the wheel and the gearshift, whether bicycle, motorcycle, or car.