My problem with the rah-rah around Tesla is that, good as they might be compared to the status-quo, they are still cars. There's not enough attention paid to t

My problem with the rah-rah around Tesla is that, good as they might be compared to the status-quo, they are still cars. There's not enough attention paid to the fact that cars and the sedentary lifestyle they encourage are a net-negative for most people. Many of the folks I talk to who'd like to move to an active form of transportation don't because they are scared of being hit by a car. We've effectively ceded huge swaths of public space to single occupancy vehicles, and made it off limits to humans. This is bad for the health of the people in those cars, but also bad for everyone else.