Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar

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    10 months ago

    You don’t have to get a week’s worth of groceries when you don’t live in a car-first dystopia.

    You walk five minutes to the store, spend 5-10 minutes grabbing stuff, then walk back with like a single bag. You shouldn’t even need to get on public transit for basics like groceries, but even if you do a single bag isn’t a problem.

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      10 months ago

      How many people live a 5 minute walk from a grocery store? I think the closest one to me is about 5 miles away in a city of 250k+. That’d be like a 4 hour round trip walk on average.

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        10 months ago

        Where do you live that has grocery so far apart? Are you actually in the city or like a suburb of it?

        I’m in Brooklyn. I can’t speak to all of Brooklyn but this neighborhood has a population of 100k from Wikipedia. Where my friend used to live wikipedia says is about 120k, and they had good walkable options.

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          10 months ago

          I live on the west coast where cities aren’t as dense as the boroughs of NYC or most eastern states.

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            10 months ago

            Ah. Yeah, that’s one of the reasons I don’t want to live there. Too sprawled out.