Cars are bad, but there are far more people driving a car than working in the au...

mlrtime · 2025-08-24T03:28:46 1756006126

Cars are not "bad", and there are far more people driving than taking public transportation. Most of them prefer it.

nine_k · 2025-08-24T05:12:37 1756012357

Cars are good in some circumstances, mass transit, in other circumstances. One size does not fit all.

Small, inexpensive cars would also be good in some circumstances, but the US auto industry, for some reason, struggles to offer something as compact as Honda Fit, or at least something as reliable as Toyota Corolla.

mlrtime · 2025-08-25T01:13:40 1756084420

Agree with you, it would be nice to have small cheap cars, from my understanding it's two main reasons.

1) The amount of safety requirements that the US (and additionally CA) make the margins too low to sell cheap cars.

2) Most people don't want them and won't buy them (myself included).

Although I have lived in multiple towns where "golf carts" are legal and those were cool.