Comments by "weetikissa" (@weetikissa) on "What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj" video.

@tukangpempek5390 Would you want to live in a city where you had to climb up stairs every time you wanted to cross the street? Is that a pleasant walking experience? Would you want to go on long walks? Would old people and the disabled be able to go anywhere? How would bikes cross the street? It's been tried and it's a failed solution. It's a band-aid solution to "fix" the problem of cars killing people. Don't treat the symptom, and instead get rid of the root cause, the car. They don't belong in cities because they can kill you.
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@argusy3866 More than half of all train passengers in the Netherlands arrive to their station by bike. You couldn't do that with cars. Bikes are by far the best mode of transportation between 1-10 km, after which you can combine them with trains.
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jan simonides Do you really or do you just think that you do? You're constantly staring at asphalt, lights, and metal boxes, and when you get going, you're going too fast to enjoy the architecture. And you won't smell the smells, hear the sounds, or meet the people of each neighborhood. It's just you in your metal cocoon.
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@alwaysuseless Built-up areas are best served by bikes BECAUSE bikes are so incredibly space efficient. What do you mean there might not be enough space for them? If there's not enough space for bikes, there's not enough space for cars.
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@Vlican If you lived in a well-planned city, you wouldn't have to buy 50 lbs of groceries every day AND carry all of that by bike. I mean, you can get a cargo bike (look up Urban Arrow), but I live in the Netherlands and I have a grocery store across the street and I shop there every day. Neighborhoods without grocery stores within walking distance simply don't get built here because, well, you kinda need to food to live so it would be stupid to make you travel a long distance to get some.
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This is why you don't plan cities from above. You forget the street level and the individual. This guy's ideas and waist tell me that he doesn't walk or bike anywhere, ever. Bad Ted talk. Sorry.
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@ImNaviar They will create traffic because they will have to drive around empty to pick people up. It's like if everyone had to take taxis to go everywhere.
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You shouldn't be. He wants you to sit in a metal box and gain weight. We should walk and bike more and combine these modes with trains.
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@Yanaschaf Not even. They will have to drive around empty to pick people up. They're even worse than cars when it comes to traffic because at least cars you will have to walk to in order to fetch them.
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@suryahr307 What you need to do is not cram more people into cars. Cars take up too much space. You need to dump the car and move to more space-efficient modes.
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