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It's a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.
You can certainly reduce the presence of cars in certain areas and improve the design of cities to this end. But just saying "ban cars" is idiotic.
You're laughing at a pedestrian being killed and another seriously injured. You should be ashamed of yourself
Is your reading comprehension really this bad? I'm laughing at your incredibly simple minded call to ban cars.
There's no way to safely mix cars with people. If there was, we would have done it by now. If anything else killed as many people as cars, we would ban it.
Alcohol kills more people than cars every year.
Banning cars would radically alter every person's lifestyle and require massive replanning of cities. It's a ridiculous proposal.
The fact that you can't imagine a world without cars is scary. Humans survived 10s of thousands of years without them. We've had cars just over 100 years. They're not integral to the human experience.
Try to imagine better public transport, more people riding bikes and scooters, walkable cities.
How much of our cities do we give up to cars? Between roads and parking, it's too much. Even then they still mount the footpath and kill people.
Dude wtf are you talking about, the world is a very different place now to what it was 10000 years ago. It's not that I can't imagine a world without cars, its that the amount of shit that would need to be done to remove cars from modern life would be a massive, slow, expensive project. You'd need to completely redesign cities and pour incalculable amounts of money into the project, while huge swathes of the population protest rabidly against the changes.
Like, sure you can plan changes to cities to reduce the reliance on cars, but its a long, slow process that takes a huge amount of time and political will to enact. Just saying "ban cars" is an incredibly simple minded, knee jerk reaction to the issue.
I'm not saying it will be easy. But we should be moving in that direction.
Guns recently overtook cars as the number 1 killer of children in the good ol US of A.
The only thing we seem to be banning is people of colors with funny accents and social safety nets.
Your US and A is a strange place. In Australia guns killed 30 or so people and we banned them.
Yea.... I'm in my 40s...
I think humanity has jumped the shark.
Relevance?
None to you, apparently.