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To get rid of cars, you need cities designed for people, not cars: otherwise everything is so far away that nothing gets ever done. We won't get rid of cars unt
by yason 15y ago
To get rid of cars, you need cities designed for people, not cars: otherwise everything is so far away that nothing gets ever done. We won't get rid of cars until oil is ridiculously expensive and we must give up. That will also leave much of the recent (since 1950's) development to decay, and new cities will emerge where there are new concentrations of people.
So, we will get a future without cars at some point, it's just not going to be a nice convenient continuum to something else.
- gordianknot 15y agoOr we just migrate to self-driving electric cars, with the batteries serving as Intergrid energy storage.
- read_wharf 15y agoI've learned to never get too attached to anything that comes after "Or we just ..." :)
- fiddly_bits 15y agoAlso, let's add wi-fi hot-spots to all of them so that they'll create a giant mesh-network, providing cheap internet access for everyone. And ponies! Everyone gets ponies!
- exue 15y agoCities are still designed for people. It's just that they are choosing to live in large, cheaper houses with lawns instead of a high-rise apartment in NYC.
- anonymous 15y agoI've been wondering how much of the difference between old-world and new-world cities has to do with the simple fact that new-world cities evolved from industrial-era settlements, while old-world ones resulted from agglutination of rural areas. The effect being that yours were designed for maximising production, while ours have a more emergent design, based on generations of people used to living within walking distance of everything.
- Derbasti 15y agoLook at Europe or Asia: All them old cities were designed without cars. Actually, many European cities today opt for car-free downtown areas.