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You describe my childhood in USSR. I don't see it repeating at any meaningful scale. I do dream though, while slowly working on human carrying electric VTOL, th

by trhway 2y ago

You describe my childhood in USSR. I don't see it repeating at any meaningful scale. I do dream though, while slowly working on human carrying electric VTOL, that we'll get to the world with residential neighborhoods kind of like golf-courses - a lot of green space with minimum paved paths for short hops (and last mile various cargo) on electric "golf-carts"/etc. while electrically-VTOL-ing to any destination farther than 5-10 miles.

jabl 2y ago
Parents driving kids to school and hobbies seem to be an almost uniquely American obsession. I live in an affluent not-USA country and my kids go to school and hobbies by walking/bike/bus. If I had to chauffeur them around all the time my quality of life would go way down.
- andrepd 2y ago
  Car dependency is definitely not a US specific thing, sadly.
  - jabl 2y ago
    Of course not, didn't mean to imply that. But the US seems to take it to 11.
andrepd 2y ago
Don't take this the wrong way but I definitely think it's "peak hn" to consider that building 1m wide cycle paths is somehow just an impossible thing to have, so much so that you see some weird scifi vision of flying cars as being easier than that.