Re:What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hop...
by judge2020 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:57PM
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Not everyone wants to live in an apartment. Call it classism but some people can afford houses and want to be secluded from other people, so to do that they purchase a house they can afford (aka. not in the city or close to a train/subway station) and the only way for them to get to work after that is via a car.
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Re:What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hop...
by ericmay on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:00PM
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Why would you have to live in an apartment?
Here's a walkable and bike-able neighborhood in Columbus. There's a mix of houses, businesses, and apartments (it's mostly single-family homes). https://api.trekaroo.com/system/photos/229733/original/11943...
Why can't we just build more of that?
Sure some people can live in the middle of nowhere and take their car everywhere, but you're crazy to think that most people can afford to do that. It's just not going to work. We see it fracturing right now.
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But anyway, we don't really have options now and the things we are doing are completely stupid. There's no way we can just keep building suburbs, strip malls, and highways and have everybody drive a car and it's dumb to even want to do that.