Re:Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation
by bsder on Sunday August 21, 2022 @07:19PM
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Careful. You're in the HN bubble.
I don't hear this rhetoric in the general public. At best, high gas prices bumped a few people on the edge to buy a Prius instead of a Corolla. Now that those prices seem to be going down, the rhetoric will taper off and people will go back to buying SUVs.
One thing that I do expect is driving some of the rhetoric is that cars have just gotten ferociously expensive for everybody not a homeowner in the 'burbs. So, we've kind of gone back to cars being a whopping chunk of your income like the 60s and 70s while we've dismantled most of the nearby jobs and local infrastructure that meant you needed a car less. It will be interesting to see if this is enough impetus to finally change the status quo.
I don't hear this rhetoric in the general public. At best, high gas prices bumped a few people on the edge to buy a Prius instead of a Corolla. Now that those prices seem to be going down, the rhetoric will taper off and people will go back to buying SUVs.
One thing that I do expect is driving some of the rhetoric is that cars have just gotten ferociously expensive for everybody not a homeowner in the 'burbs. So, we've kind of gone back to cars being a whopping chunk of your income like the 60s and 70s while we've dismantled most of the nearby jobs and local infrastructure that meant you needed a car less. It will be interesting to see if this is enough impetus to finally change the status quo.