Yes, it sucks being carless in a car-dependent place. That’s exactly my point.
However, I apologize for insulting you. I don’t know you or your experience and I jumped to a lot of conclusions in my previous comments.
What I’m trying to say is that the reason your bus/train commute sucks isn’t that it’s a bus/train. It’s that, at least in a lot of cities, the only people who ride the bus/train are those who can’t afford a car. Which means several things:
Transit is underfunded
Transit has incomplete coverage
Entire human settlements are built without any concern for people who don’t have a car
Cities are designed to allow maximum car throughput and parking, which inherently makes other forms of transportation worse
Your very lived experience is exactly a consequence of car-centric design, and a laser-like focus on self-driving cars will only perpetuate that design philosophy.
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Yes, it sucks being carless in a car-dependent place. That’s exactly my point.
However, I apologize for insulting you. I don’t know you or your experience and I jumped to a lot of conclusions in my previous comments.
What I’m trying to say is that the reason your bus/train commute sucks isn’t that it’s a bus/train. It’s that, at least in a lot of cities, the only people who ride the bus/train are those who can’t afford a car. Which means several things:
Your very lived experience is exactly a consequence of car-centric design, and a laser-like focus on self-driving cars will only perpetuate that design philosophy.