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Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I can walk to a grocery store. I'm not doing it when weather sucks and I have a bunch of stuff.

And public transit to get there would be worse.

Besides, empty busses and empty trains require as much fuel empty as with passengers. They're not as eco friendly as you may think.

And your assumptions about how other people live are stupid. Not everyone has the time to waste walking to get stuff.

This idea of planned cities is naive at the best. Cities grow organically, as things change. You act like cities are static entities that can predict where things will be tomorrow. Naive at best.

Just wait till you get older, where walking, even to the car, is uncomfortable or painful. And I'm not talking old - I was in this kind of pain in my 30's, and still am. Walking from the car into the store sucks, and I'm not as bad off as some people.

You can take my car from my cold, dead, no-longer- in-pain ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, there's nothing more organic than demolishing black neighborhoods to build highways.