Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:24PM
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> We’ve built so much sprawl that it’s difficult to make an efficient transport system that makes the types of trips that people now want to make.
Yeah, the American desire to have a large grassy lawn surrounding their house means density is far too low to make public transit viable.
Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
by quantumwannabe on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:49AM
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If they commute 235 miles per year then they don’t need a train at all because that is a commute of around half a mile each way per day which is easily walkable. That number is so ridiculously low I suspect the source is wrong.
Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
by kube-system on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:43PM
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Maybe so. A government source says:
> Even though average miles travelled for commuting purposes has declined to 799 miles travelled per person in 2020, a decrease of 37% compared to 2019 (1,276 miles travelled per person) and an overall decrease of 43% compared to 2002 (1,400 miles travelled per person)
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-travel-sur...
So, still close to an order of magnitude less than my anecdotal data. The bottom line is that the US definitely has a lot of sprawl.
Everyone chooses where to put homes and workplaces with transportation in mind.
In the UK people who commute by rail commute an average of 235 miles per year. [0]
I’ve had commutes of 150 miles per day. (Or 30,000+ miles per year) although that’s on the high end of what Americans might do.
The typical commute for people in my last office job was 30-50 miles per day. About 10,000 miles per year. About 1-2% of the people in our office lived in the same town as the office. This is in a top-50 metropolitan area of the US.
[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/466097/average-distance-...