• k_o_t
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    4 years ago

    i live in a place with okayish public transportation system and with little to no horrible bike infrastructure, however, that doesn’t make the fact that moving people around in cities by car is very inefficient and dumb not true

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      4 years ago

      cars are a dumb idea in general, with very few applications

      moving people around in cities by car is very inefficient and dumb

      While I agree that a car in some place like London, New York, or San Francisco is dumb, you’ve changed your goalposts.

      Rather than belabor that point, though, what is your preferred alternative?

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        4 years ago

        I might have phrased it wrong, but my answer to your initial question was that I don’t think that self-driving cars in general are dumb, but using self-driving cars for public transportation is dumb.

        what is your preferred alternative?

        In theory I would want for all cities for it be the bicycle or personal electric vehicles, especially with the realities of coronavirus, and rail transit (tram for short distances, maybe underground for bigger cities and traditional fast trains for longer distances).