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When I think of the hilly suburbs of California, I cannot imagine a system that could convince even a fraction of those people to give up cars, no matter how el
by standardUser 3y ago
When I think of the hilly suburbs of California, I cannot imagine a system that could convince even a fraction of those people to give up cars, no matter how elaborate or well-designed. But the design of those streets and the terrain make them extremely well-suited for cars. So instead of devising some radical and expensive re-design of the thousands of suburbs in America, autonomous cars seem to solve the problem quite elegantly. And there's nothing stopping people from tacking their autonomous car or taxi to a train station for more urban-oriented travel.
- JAlexoid 3y agoIt's probably going to be financials... The most common argument against suburbs is that they aren't self sustaining at paying for the services/infrastructure/utilities they consume.
- bluGill 3y agoThat is the most common argument, but they have been successfully doing it for more than 100 years. It is time to kill the argument, when you dig in you discover they are using some really weird definitions of self sustaining. (they don't count money that comes in from other sources even though everyone gets it all the time)