Let’s Build a Future Without Cars
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Let’s Build a Future Without Cars
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#2Given a safe, flat road you can't beat a bicycle for energy efficiency and cost:
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/whats-the-worlds-most-energy...
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#3I don't mind the cars. I just want them to drive themselves.
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#4How about those jet packs that we have been promised for so long.
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#5I love cars. I love driving them, I love working on them, I love the design language and history. They're one of the finest expressions of man's use of engineering to conquer his surroundings and go extremely fast. I'd also love a future where you don't need a car to commute, though.
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#6should cars have rights? to defend them self against this anti-car propaganda.
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#7Given a safe, flat road you can't beat a bicycle for energy efficiency and cost: http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/whats-the-worlds-most-energy...
And Given a sufficient long journey, Jets are more efficient.
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#8Cars address a lot of needs. It's not surprising that there are superior solutions for each of those needs, but all of those solutions are significantly worse than cars for other needs. If you try to cobble together a car equivalent from those other solutions, you end up with something signficantly more expensive/less good.
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#9To get rid of cars, you need cities designed for people, not cars: otherwise everything is so far away that nothing gets ever done. We won't get rid of cars until oil is ridiculously expensive and we must give up. That will also leave much of the recent (since 1950's) development to decay, and new cities will emerge where there are new concentrations of people.
So, we will get a future without cars at some point, it's just not going to be a nice convenient continuum to something else.
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#10Our country was built on steam trains, which were horrifically inefficient, but they got the job done. Currently we’re built on cars, which too are inefficient but practical. These things gained ground because there was a way to commercialise them, to make people say “I can’t live without that”. The question is: how can that be done with things like ultralights and bullet trains and public air? Could we really let the roads overgrow and just fly or rail everywhere? It’s an enticing prospect, but I fear that such a vision of the future neglects the many people who just can’t afford to make the switch.
Oh, and the nitpick of the day:
“We are the descendents [sic] of chimps…”
We have a common ancestor with chimpanzees (and bonobos); we’re not descended from them.