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I'm all for reigning in some of the larger stupidity we have around cars and transit, but we're never completely getting rid of single occupancy vehicles and th
by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm all for reigning in some of the larger stupidity we have around cars and transit, but we're never completely getting rid of single occupancy vehicles and the best route to nearly eliminating DUIs and pedestrian deaths is ultimately going to be driverless vehicles.
- abeppu 3y agoThe follow-up to "we're never completely getting rid of single occupancy vehicles" should not be "let's put 0 occupancy vehicles on the road" which are not doing any useful transportation service, but are contributing to congestion, emissions etc. Since it's pointless to come occupied vehicles (which have a person who will have a clear motive to remove the cone), the only ones being impacted are empty and _not_ carrying drunk or reckless otherwise-could-have-been-drivers.
- youngtaff 3y ago> the best route to nearly eliminating DUIs and pedestrian deaths is ultimately going to be driverless vehicles Best route is actually getting rid of cars and having good and safe public transport
- lamontcg 3y ago> Best route is actually getting rid of cars literally fantasy. won't happen. not in my life, and not in yours.
- clhodapp 3y agoIt probably won't happen in most of the United States because most Americans don't want it to but it's not because it's an outlandish idea. It's the cheapest and most practical one.
- lamontcg 3y agoIt is like wanting a drug-free society or a world without any abortion, it isn't grounded in reality.
- youngtaff 3y agoGood public transport reduces car use - look at London, or any major European city
- lamontcg 3y ago"reduces" != "getting rid of"