Comment by fooker
3 years ago
>the future is having cars removed from cities entirely.
Sounds somewhat authoritarian to impose your idea of the 'future' to inconvenience a large number of people.
3 years ago
>the future is having cars removed from cities entirely.
Sounds somewhat authoritarian to impose your idea of the 'future' to inconvenience a large number of people.
If you live in an American suburb you're swimming in that sort of authoritarianism.
I live in a small American suburb, have lived in large cities, and travel to Europe, NYC, LA, SF on the regular. And I wouldn’t trade my car and the ability to drive somewhere for anything in the world.
There are a lot of great things about cities but you are dependent on other people for everything in your life, and it can go sideways incredibly fast. I.e the energy situation in Europe, or with COVID-19. Personally I don’t know how it’s not obvious to the millions of people who live in places like that.
> you are dependent on other people for everything in your life
This is everywhere true past, present and future. I would argue your small suburb gives you an illusion that isn't true.