Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living — Human Transit
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Are Americans a “car culture” or are they “car dependent”?  Do they drive because they love driving, or are they in an unhealthy relationship with a substance they would be happy to do without?  Obviously there are plenty of Americans who do love their cars, but here’s more evidence that there are fewer of them […]

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/upliftingnews@lemmy.world/t/1372827

We find that nearly one fifth of urban and suburban US car owners express a definite interest in living car-free (18 %), and an additional 40 % are open to the idea. This is in addition to the small share (10 %) of urban and suburban US residents currently living without a car.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    5·
    8 days ago

    I don’t have a car nor do I plan to have one, ever.

    At the same time I do enjoy speed. I also enjoy the aesthetics of speed. I also appreciate the philosophy of freedom and discovery.

    … those though are NOT the properties that most people can enjoy on their daily commute. When you take side by the side the values promoted in a car advertisement (those listed above) versus what people actually live (stuck in traffic daily, bumper to bumper, in a very well defined path where everybody else also is, at the very same time) it’s actually ironically enough diametrically opposed.

    So whether you genuinely enjoys cars or not be honest about your actual daily experience then adjust appropriately.

    • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 days ago

      I don’t know how everyone was convinced cars mean freedom. In my opinion, they’re nothing but obligation, time, and money. I hated it. They’re so needy! I hate maintaining shit. I don’t have to maintain the bus! That’s someone else’s job!

    • doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Every fucking car advert is some giant SUV coasting around mountain passes and on vacant beaches, or some CGI city with no traffic lights. People are not being sold the idea of traffic and decimated urban landscape, yet that is what they get for their dreams of speed.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        8 days ago

        Ironically people who actually want that experience should be the loudest advocates for practical mass transit alternatives to driving… so less people clog up roads.