cars serve a purpose and a centralized rental authority in every district would make a lot of sense. while carbrain is a thing, we must never lose sight of the fact that capital gets what it wants in liberal democratic societies and a society in which rail and trolley and tram is replaced by cars represents a society in which capital has determined there is enough wealth to exploit to enforce transport costs upon the individual even upon workers (as in they know they do not risk loss of productivity).
anybody who has sat in the same traffic day after day and month after month knows that they’re essentially on a train, it’s just that the state has decided they must pay for their own train car and the other choice is waking up at 3:45am to get to work at 8am
little short range electric pod cars to rent first come first serve at the terminus of HSR or commuter trains in rural areas to put around and sightsee
Tell me you don’t live in a rural area without telling me you don’t live in a rural area.
I’m not trying to be an ass or anything, but I live in a rural “city” and I feel this kind of solution would just barely work, if at all. You’re still looking at nearly everyone out here needing their own personal vehicle. Like yeah cars ruin big cities, but for the most part the only thing cars really did for rural areas was just replace the horse and cart. Especially since I’m pretty sure a lot of railroads were closing down and or merging together for a variety of reasons long before the advent of cars and carbrain.
cars serve a purpose and a centralized rental authority in every district would make a lot of sense. while carbrain is a thing, we must never lose sight of the fact that capital gets what it wants in liberal democratic societies and a society in which rail and trolley and tram is replaced by cars represents a society in which capital has determined there is enough wealth to exploit to enforce transport costs upon the individual even upon workers (as in they know they do not risk loss of productivity).
anybody who has sat in the same traffic day after day and month after month knows that they’re essentially on a train, it’s just that the state has decided they must pay for their own train car and the other choice is waking up at 3:45am to get to work at 8am
little short range electric pod cars to rent first come first serve at the terminus of HSR or commuter trains in rural areas to put around and sightsee
Tell me you don’t live in a rural area without telling me you don’t live in a rural area.
I’m not trying to be an ass or anything, but I live in a rural “city” and I feel this kind of solution would just barely work, if at all. You’re still looking at nearly everyone out here needing their own personal vehicle. Like yeah cars ruin big cities, but for the most part the only thing cars really did for rural areas was just replace the horse and cart. Especially since I’m pretty sure a lot of railroads were closing down and or merging together for a variety of reasons long before the advent of cars and carbrain.
absolutely not, no. 1790s guys did not have a 1 hour horse cart commute, this is carbrain applied retroactively to the past