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The car is simply much better than any alternative along numerous dimensions, which is why people want to use them so much.
by baggy_trough 4y ago
The car is simply much better than any alternative along numerous dimensions, which is why people want to use them so much.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoNot at all. The US creates its built environment for cars and only cars. The MUTCD which standardizes a lot of traffic engineering in the US actually requires a traffic study to slow traffic down in any way, so adding any signs, lights, or speed bumps must need a traffic study. There are no guidelines in the MUTCD to design sidewalks or bike paths, which is why parts of the US have no sidewalks. Roads measure capacity in volumes of motor vehicles and not pedestrians, cyclists, or any other mode. Recently a set of standards in the US named NACTO are trying to change this and imagine a street as a modeshared ROW, but only a handful of Americans cities are using NACTO. This is a stark contrast from how street design works in lots of Europe and some of Asia. Very little about our built environment is decided by individual choice. Almost all road and lot widths are set by regulations which mandate car-scaled widths.
- baggy_trough 4y agoThat all sounds very wise, since most people use cars (because they are so useful).