The Future of Transportation
Nowadays climate change is a major problem for our society. Cars play a significant role because they have high CO2 emissions. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 86% still drive to work and only 5% use public transportation. In addition "45% (19.15) gallons of every barrel of oil (42 gallons) is gasoline." (US Department of Energy).
Therefore one option to reduce climate change significant would be to encourage the use of public transportation. But what does need to change to accomplish this goal?
I beliebe the cost of transportation is a substantial factor for most people. We all want to save money to spend it on other things. Most people do not really need a car but in almost all cases it is faster and more flexible than public transportation. But if prices were lowered or increased for fuel, a lot of people would switch because the advantage especially in cities is not that huge.
However the top priority should be the speed, frequency and connections themselves. 99.9% of people fly to their holiday destination even if it is only 600 km away. People always choose comfort and speed over price. We need more connections and more frequent tramps and buses. Why should I try to catch the bus, where I need to wait 20 minutes if I fail to catch it, I could just get in my car and would not have to worry about anything at all. That is the largest problem of public transportation.
All in all, public transportation is quite reliable in cities nowadays, but it needs to be even better. People will not switch to public transportation because they see an advertisement on TV... they see buses every day. They also will not switch because it is better for the environment.. they can smell how toxic their car is. Therefore it just needs to become faster and cheaper itself.
What is your personal opinion?
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Public transportation is the most centralized economic activity there is! I subscribe to decentralize everything and public transportation is opposed to this at least in most implementations.
There are people who live Buenos Aires, can be made instantly unemployed by a public transport union, when they are unable to get to work via the subway they rely on.
Public works such as roads, allows anyone to move along the roads to where they need to go. A car provides comfort for the users and crumple zones for the dangerous drivers on the road. A bus driver's union can at anytime make subways or buses unusable for the duration of a strike. Even though, a strike can often block some important roads, there simply are not enough in a union to block all of them.
If you are going to use public transport, keep another means available for when there is a labor dispute.
indeed an important aspect to keep in mind! Thanks for the advice. However, does a strike really have a negative effect on your work because for me it is the same as being ill? And if you are ill you still will get paid.
It's advice to all who read this! And perhaps it doesn't apply to you but many arrangements pay for hour worked and if you don't show up, you don't get paid.
Even in your case, if you cannot get to your place of work, certainly you wont be able to do your job, so someone is losing out. That is your employer and his clients or your clients. If we have an arrangement where you have to be somewhere and I was paying you for that but you don't even show up, why should I pay you?
This is probably the hard truth
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Man, I've been waiting since I was a kid for this to change. We should all have self driving electric cars by now if you believed the world's fairs of past years. Thanks!
Flying cars the same shape as a 1950's car. The idea of flying cars is nothing new. What is a helicopter? A flying vehicle. It's a matter of regulation. If there were flying cars, people would crash into the roof of my house.
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