We need a kind of bike type of car, everyone can get one fairly easy and they are durable and last almost forever if you take some care. In reality, we need to go back to walkable neighborhoods with shops and cafes within a few minutes walk and light rail to connect everything further.
regular and electric bikes. let’s replace parking on major urban streets with dedicated, protected bike lanes. along with dedicated bus lanes with synchronized lights, we could replace a lot of car trips with just these two changes in how we use our existing streets.
LA, where i live, is so perfect for these two changes (given the mostly mild year-round weather and relative flatness) that it pains me every day looking at how poorly we’re using our limited land and air resources (including the relative dearth of dense mixed-use along major corridors).
After my accident, for a while I blew so much money on Lyft to travel to the office and back, which was a fairly straightforward 10-mile trip one-way.
Later, after the pandemic started, I watched the movie 1922 (although I don't really recommend). Having been through the previous ordeal, the simplicity of the family's unassuming farm truck was not unnoticed. For all the money I spent on Lyft, I would have much more happily dropped it on a car similar to the one from the movie, even if it meant open-air cooling (no AC) and a top speed of 35mph.
