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There is the pressure to build the road in the first place, as there is about 1.5 billion cars in existence. Having it impossible to find really truly remote pl
by justinator 4y ago
There is the pressure to build the road in the first place, as there is about 1.5 billion cars in existence. Having it impossible to find really truly remote places is a symptom of just how much cars have absolutely changed the world.
There's the idea that for every car, you need three car-sized spaces to support it: The area you park the car, the area you drive the car, and the area you'll be driving the car to. That's a lot of roads.
- bombcar 4y agoMany of the dirt roads predate the car; cars almost universally demand paved roads, but wagons want roads, too.
- justinator 4y agoThere are more cars in existence now, than every wagon every built in all of human civilization combined. There are also now, more roads.
- detaro 4y agoSomehow I doubt that's very relevant to random wilderness roads in the desert
- jstanley 4y agoIf we're being pedantic, I think you only need 2 of those spaces while driving the car, and only 1 while it's parked.