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

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    11 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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      11 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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        11 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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          11 months ago

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