There is quite a lot you can do with a cargo bike. And what is still left in deliveries or services, can be done with just a few cars. Those don’t need to be driverless.
Also I have once moved house using public transport. It isn’t fun, but it’s possible.
Lol I grew up where it’s 100 degrees in March. No one is riding a bike much less pulling a cargo trailer to work. You have no idea what you are talking about.
so what, did nobody live or work in africa or the middle east or the american southwest or australia or spain or anywhere else where it gets really hot before cars were invented? were people just like “i have stuff to do but it’s too hot to walk, guess i’ll just die”? and then what of people who live in places where it doesn’t do that, which is statistically most people?
also, worth noting that freeways and asphalt create the urban heat island effect, which makes hot places even hotter.
think of how much faster you could get across the country with all your music gear in your car if all of the other people on the road who aren’t schlepping all of their music gear across the country, which is statistically almost all of them, were on bikes or trains instead
Depends on how much equipment you’re talking about. The vast majority of tradespeople could have a rolling toolkit on a pushcart. For everything bigger there’s likely to still be commercial road freight.
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Not every journey is possible with public transport. People will still need to lug equipment about in the electric future.
Trains don’t cover literally every single use case of a car, better keep expanding those highways!
There is quite a lot you can do with a cargo bike. And what is still left in deliveries or services, can be done with just a few cars. Those don’t need to be driverless. Also I have once moved house using public transport. It isn’t fun, but it’s possible.
Lol I grew up where it’s 100 degrees in March. No one is riding a bike much less pulling a cargo trailer to work. You have no idea what you are talking about.
so what, did nobody live or work in africa or the middle east or the american southwest or australia or spain or anywhere else where it gets really hot before cars were invented? were people just like “i have stuff to do but it’s too hot to walk, guess i’ll just die”? and then what of people who live in places where it doesn’t do that, which is statistically most people?
also, worth noting that freeways and asphalt create the urban heat island effect, which makes hot places even hotter.
And they have cars in those places.
Before cars were invented we had horses.
you can be generally certain that i’m aware of that
…and trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union_of_Railways
ya they really connected every place in africa.
I definitely can’t travel across the country with all my music gear on a bike.
think of how much faster you could get across the country with all your music gear in your car if all of the other people on the road who aren’t schlepping all of their music gear across the country, which is statistically almost all of them, were on bikes or trains instead
Oh no, not equipment. Surely nobody has ever moved equipment on a train.
But how do you transport equipment from the train station to the location equipment needs to arrive at?
Depends on how much equipment you’re talking about. The vast majority of tradespeople could have a rolling toolkit on a pushcart. For everything bigger there’s likely to still be commercial road freight.
When you can’t carry it all in one go a train is useless.