Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by smsm42 on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:16PM (#6014230)

Not every place on Earth looks like your immediate neighborhood. For example, large chunks of Silicon Valley (not the most remote or undeveloped place in the world) are effectively inaccessible other than by car - unless you are willing to spend 3 hours commuting in each direction and are ready to subjugate your whole life to extremely sparse and inconvenient schedule of public transportation.

Like it or not, cars are the only way people can get from place with reasonable costs of living to place where it is reasonable to situate offices/industry buildings in numbers and with speed that is required by modern economy.

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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by lutorm on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @03:51PM (#6014930)

I think the implication was that we should make public transportation better along with decreasing the amounts of cars.

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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by smsm42 on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:17PM (#6015133)

Well, of course, if you could make it better - sure, go ahead. Do you think I like driving 30 mins twice a day? I'd rather spend the same time in a bus reading a book. But I don't have such option and do not foresee it happening anytime soon. You can say "we should" as many times as you like, but in reality it's not happening - and I'm not sure it's even feasible to cover an area of San Jose size with adequate public transport and keep the costs reasonable. But if you know how to do it - sure, let your plan be known to the San Jose city council, I support it a lot. I'm sure amount of cars would decrease once you pull it off - I'd gladly give up my daily commute if I had an alternative. But not before the alternative is there.

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