What you actually hate are modern roads. You just don’t realize it.

Roads, as they are now, are nothing more than trillion dollar subsidies to the big automotive companies (which, up until the 1980s, were predominantly American in the US… that might have been the point). Without these trillion dollar subsidies, there’d be nowhere much to drive cars, and no one would buy them (supposing anyone even tried to sell them). Though pollution and carbon dioxide might still be a large and extreme problem, one does wonder how much smaller it might be if there had been no cars.

Government, creating perverse incentives since 4000 BC, with no one noticing.

In most cases cars are a less effective alternative. In my city people like commuting to work by car. If they, at least, got on 3-4 people in the same car we could reduce traffic jam by 60% to 75%. What is interesting is that people commuting to work by car as a single and lonly passenger are the ones that complain the most about traffic jam. You would never hear someone commuting by train or tram complaining about the same.

Currently living in a urban area, I 100% agree that cars should just be illegal here (with very few necesseary exceptions). But I grew up in a rural area hours from the nearest city, and here the question may be more difficult. I’m not saying that it is impossible to ban them here too, but that it will necessitate much more work and political will.

These are really problems with stroads, car-centric infrastructure, and car culture rather than with the vehicles themselves.

I like to watch Not Just Bikes, he has a lot of well-done videos exploring why car-centric infrastructure causes all sorts of problems, and showcasing how The Netherlands successfully re-built their infrastructure to prioritize pedestrian traffic and public transportation.

I owned a car for like a year of my life and it was horribly expensive. It was cool in some respects, but not at all worth it in total. Also there’s the whole climate thing going on…

I think that it’s totally fine for rural people to use cars (hopefully electric in the future) but they can’t expect to drive them into cities and cities should only allow private cars with special permits. We’d have so much more communal space.

I don’t really like having car but not because of most reasons up there. I might not be going to own a car because I feel like driving a car alone is kind of creepy. Especially if I have to drive a silent road at night. Having empty seats in the back is intimidating. Another perspective to put it, having empty seats most of the time is quite wasteful.