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    8 months ago

    Self driving cars we’re talking like a decade, the kind of societal changes you’re describing take a generation.

    The kind of changes I’m talking about are happening, even in the US, right now. It’s you who’s lobbying against them by saying “can’t be done”, “not fast enough” completely ignoring what’s happening in actual cities all over the place. How about “hey why are the Mormons of all people more progressive than our city”, instead?

    Also for an purported supporter of public transport you ripped into /r/fuckcars quite a lot. WTH are you even doing over on the snoo site.

    You literally have to wait for every suburban stick in the mud to be willing to move out of their home or die before you can achieve your car-free dream.

    No. Railcar suburbs once existed and existing car-dependent single-home suburbs can be turned into them by, as I already explained, densifying around the stations. Which has been done, and is being done, and would come soon also to your city if you bothered to argue for it.

    As to me personally: I never owned a car. Never needed one.

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      8 months ago

      It’s you who’s lobbying against them

      Learn how to read.

      How about “hey why are the Mormons of all people more progressive than our city”, instead?

      Learn how to read.

      Also for an purported supporter of public transport you ripped into /r/fuckcars quite a lot.

      You can support something and also think that others who support that thing are childish and naiive.

      WTH are you even doing over on the snoo site.

      I didn’t even say I was on it, I implied that you were childish like they were. Learn how to read.

      No. Railcar suburbs once existed and existing car-dependent single-home suburbs can be turned into them by, as I already explained, densifying around the stations. Which has been done, and is being done, and would come soon also to your city if you bothered to argue for it.

      Learn how to read.

      As to me personally: I never owned a car. Never needed one.

      I didn’t ask and I don’t care.

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        No. Railcar suburbs once existed and existing car-dependent single-home suburbs can be turned into them by, as I already explained, densifying around the stations. Which has been done, and is being done, and would come soon also to your city if you bothered to argue for it.

        Learn how to read.

        Yeah that’s not how to argue. What am I supposed to read in that context? You’re deflecting.

        As to me personally: I never owned a car. Never needed one.

        I didn’t ask and I don’t care.

        You said this:

        You literally have to wait for every suburban stick in the mud to be willing to move out of their home or die before you can achieve your car-free dream.

        No, it’s not a dream. No, I’m not living in the city centre, either. You’re, again, deflecting in a desperate attempt to deny reality, denying the change that’s happening even in places that are culturally extremely car-centric.

        Touch grass.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah that’s not how to argue. What am I supposed to read in that context? You’re deflecting.

          It means reread what you wrote and then reflect on what might have already been explicitly contradicted. Maybe reflect on what I’ve said about my political views instead of injecting the car loving stereotype you’ve made up.

          No, it’s not a dream. No, I’m not living in the city centre, either.

          Congratulations bro. There are still cars all around you and you would still be safer if they were autonomous.

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            8 months ago

            Maybe reflect on what I’ve said about my political views instead of injecting the car loving stereotype you’ve made up.

            Nah I don’t think you’re a petrol head, I think you’re a techbro. I’ve accused you of it amply, and you have never even tried to give off any other impression.

            Congratulations bro. There are still cars all around you and you would still be safer if they were autonomous.

            Statistically speaking I’m vastly more likely to fall off a ladder changing a lightbulb than getting hit by a car. But I’m sure you have a technology for that, too… don’t you? Because you want to focus on the issues that actually affect people?