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1. nologi+Mz1[view] [source] 2023-05-18 22:12:42
>>amathe+(OP)
The issue of quiting cars is nowadays far from just a matter of values as the article seems to be implying.

Cars are by now a hard to reverse environmental and urban planning disaster across the world. We are stuck with them. As a mode of transport it has grown uncontrollably at the expense of all others (except the airplane) and practically everything has been shaped to accomodate it.

Reversing that development, limiting car traffic to where its really needed is like trying to perform a complete heart and arteries transplant on a living person. Even if there was a will (which there is not) it is not clear if there is a way.

In the best scenario it will be an excruciatingly long transformation (~50 yr) as car oriented cities (or city sections) get slowly deprecated and the car-free or car-lite segments become more desirable, more livable.

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2. ohmyze+7B1[view] [source] 2023-05-18 22:19:10
>>nologi+Mz1
I don't mean to be rude but are you over 45? There is a will with most people under that age in my experience. Or maybe cars are important culturally where you live?
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3. JenrHy+pT1[view] [source] 2023-05-19 00:06:58
>>ohmyze+7B1
Many people under 45 don't have the same requirements for transport, though. It's easy to say you don't need a car when you're mobile and don't have to ship kids around.

We try to minimize our car usage - we have one car for our family of 6; I ride an electric scooter to work etc. Not having a car at all though would be basically impossible unless we decided to cut out the kids sport and traveling to visit family.

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4. brewda+5W1[view] [source] 2023-05-19 00:25:35
>>JenrHy+pT1
You're still way ahead of the game compared to so many American families. Most of my neighbors have more cars than licensed drivers at home.

We aren't going to eliminate cars in my lifetime (hopefully I've got a good 40 years or so left) but if we can get more households going car-light that's still significant progress.

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5. bombca+fh2[view] [source] 2023-05-19 03:59:54
>>brewda+5W1
More cars than drivers isn't really a problem once you're past the 1:1 ratio, as obviously they can't all be used simultaneously.
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