Comments by "michah7214" (@michah7214) on "Can we make cities car free?" video.

We love our vehicles in the US and they're not going away.
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Nebula and Curiousity Stream... Aka communist propaganda
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@Mrbushbtalls837 no there's a creator who is on those sites that literally says he wants communism
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Not at all. Pedestrian deaths in the US at most are 7000 people a year. That's. 002 percent of the population. Covid killed 1 million people in two years, .15 percent a year. The percentage of people killed in pedestrian accidents is practically zero. Not a public health crisis.
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@diegomatamoros3940 in the US, car fatalities account of . 015 percentage of the total population. Not even one half of one percent of the population dies each year from car fatalities in the US. Hardly making them killing machines
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@diegomatamoros3940 well Europe isn't the US. Different popular density, different geography, different culture. It's not really relevant.
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@samdaniels2 there are about 8,000 pedestrian deaths in the US per year. In a population of 340 million people. that's the numbers. There are between 40-50k total car fatalities. I'm not sure if that includes pedestrian accidents or not. Should I calculate the financial burden and other costs and losses caused by NOT having cars? In a country the size of the US. Not the Netherlands, the US. You think public transportation could scratch the surface? Not with our set up and our geography. Nor could cities and towns afford to put in that much public transportation.
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@samdaniels2 in the US we don't ban things because they are dangerous or cause harm. If you harm someone, you are legally charged. But the rest of society isn't forbidden from the thing. There's a very small number of things that are actually banned in the US. That's our culture. No one could ban cars or vehicles. It's absolutely against our constitution. The supreme court would over rule it immediately.
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@waynepayne9875 that's absolutely not how the US works. I can't speak for other cultures. In the US, a very very limited number of things are actually banned. If you cause harm, you're legally charged but everyone else isn't banned from the thing. The supreme court would overrule any attempt to ban cars. That's not how the US government works. There would be no legal standing to do such a thing. It's not the government's right, in our system. That's our system, our culture.
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I can't begin to understand the joy in lugging groceries on foot or bicycle
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@GGIC.Seriously
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Go for it. I live in a suburban town and no one i know goes anywhere near a city. We drive everywhere and wouldn't EVER walk or bike ride. We enjoy our vehicles. So do you. We're doing what we want.
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