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The American mind truly struggles with the concept of people not owning cars
by petesergeant 11mo ago
The American mind truly struggles with the concept of people not owning cars
- CGMthrowaway 11mo agoWe did perfect their mass production, and it propelled us to the world's largest economy. The only country with better GDP growth over the last 100 years is Japan, and that's in large part because they perfected the manufacture of cars themselves.
- Mawr 11mo agoRight, it's not the geopolitical situation, but cars. Natural resources + every potentially powerful hostile country is across entire oceans = success.
- rsynnott 11mo ago> We did perfect their mass production I mean... Toyota would beg to differ (and realistically US car manufacturers today are closer to the Toyota model of car mass production than the traditional US one).
- khannn 11mo agoThe European mind quivers at the thought of a state with a bigger area than most EU countries I like walking around new cities, but a lot of people are car life types
- nickv 11mo agoBut we're talking about New York City here, not Kansas. Specifically the congestion zone which during the work day is the most congested place in the world (187,500 people/sqm).
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> I like walking around new cities, but a lot of people are car life types Congestion pricing makes driving in New York better. Broadly speaking, the tendency for someone to have a problem with the scheme is proportional to their distance from and inversely related to the amount of time they've ever spent in New York.
- lmm 11mo agoWhat does the size of the state have to do with anything?
- rsynnott 11mo ago... I mean, that seems entirely irrelevant when discussing New York City, which is, geographically, rather small (though very dense).
- khannn 11mo agoJust like the comment I was replying to and your comment. Both add nothing and deserve nothing but flippant responses to this discussion.