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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream though. A man can dream.
If cars showed their true cost to society, they’d be far more expensive.
Absolutely, hopefully these “true costs” can be accounted for, imagine for example the price of gas without government handouts, or the costs of traffic lights, street signs, and roadways.
The biggest secondary cost of cars is definitely health. Soo many deaths and healthcare costs from accidents, pollution, lack of transportation access, heatwaves, etc.
The “true” cost is and has always been the millions of lives they ended but we as a society don’t seem to give a shit.
That’s just deaths, no one even counts people maimed for life.
Let’s say, today, within these 24 hours, if more than 50% of the car engines have been started, a specific person will die for sure tomorrow. Can we prevent the person from dying if we know this beforehand? No, because there is always “I’m late for work” or “Why me? Why not him?”
One death is way too many for a civilized society.