Re:Google Says It Won't Follow Amazon's Lead with a Return-t...
by kstrauser on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:49PM
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Not where I live. A bus ride takes about half an hour to get to downtown SF. The same drive during rush hour would take an hour, easy. You couldn’t make me drive to work here.
Re:Google Says It Won't Follow Amazon's Lead with a Return-t...
by longnt80 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:02PM
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They didn't necessary talk about time in commute. Maybe they thought spending time inside cars was useless. Sure your commute is shorter but most Americans also have to drive everywhere in their cars. To be honest, it's shit.
Edit: also, the chart is too simple to know how they conducted and came up with the data.
Re:Google Says It Won't Follow Amazon's Lead with a Return-t...
by tesch1 on Friday October 04, 2024 @04:44PM
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Tbf, some Americans might think it's shit to live life in a 100 m^2 box they don't even own and commuting in a crowded stinky wagon for longer than 26 minutes.
Not sure there's just one right way to live though. I wasn't saying there is, just sharing some data to a discussion oblivious to the realities of most Americans.
Re:Google Says It Won't Follow Amazon's Lead with a Return-t...
by ktosobcy on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:47AM
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Well... in most cases in densely populated places you simply can walk to the job or ride a bike.
In BCN for example commute would be most of the time ~15-20 minutes (walking+metro). Car would easily take twice as much.
Of course if you are living in urban sprawl and nothing is close and even getting something to eat requires "a trip" then yeah - door-to-door car would probably be "better"
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans....