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You're lucky. It's a luxury to live in an area with effective mass transportation. A lot of people aren't so lucky. The freedom a vehicle provides those peopl
by overgard 14y ago
You're lucky. It's a luxury to live in an area with effective mass transportation.
A lot of people aren't so lucky.
The freedom a vehicle provides those people is quite real.
- Someone 14y agoCounterargument is that people exerting their freedom to own a car has built a society where areas without effective mass transportation are common, thus forcing others to also buy a car. Suburbs would have been built differently if not for private car ownership. LA would not exist in its current form.
- Tichy 14y agoUsually you can choose where you live. Where I live (Germany) the government unfortunately subsidizes car travel and living in the country side. Not sure what the economics factors are in the US. I suppose gas is cheaper, but still, owning a car must cost a lot of money. Really cheaper to go car+suburb than pay the additinal money you saved on the car for rent in the city?
- warfangle 14y agoOh, I completely agree -- the feeling of mobility freedom when I got my first (and only; now sold) car was unparalleled, and a prerequisite for me being able to live on my own outside the family home. But that freedom would not be infringed by a driverless car, would it?