Dan Sturges

No matter how well intentioned, we need far better mobility alternatives to free most in USA from car dependency. Walking, biking, and transit have not done the job - at least in suburbia where over 200 million of US live.

We should be asking deep questions about the best | fastest way to end automobile dependency - in both dense urban and more suburban areas.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

It’s like humanity is in a car - hurling down the highway at 80 mph towards a cement wall it will hit - but the crash will happen in 10+ years - and we see it happening in slow motion. And we can lessen the crash (and a lot of death + destruction if we act fast: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fortunately one frog “Jumped out of the Pot” (and didn’t simmer in there until cooked!)

Stop buying gasoline. Get into *Passing Gas*. Walk and bike more. Drive electric, take transit, e-bikes, golf carts, maybe some taxis. Carpool. Live close to work. Stop buying gas if you don’t likes companies - as I don’t.

A lot of things need to change, and they can. It will happen faster imo - if every “entity” that wants to rapidly advance beyond automobile dependency in USA - find a way to work better together. Maybe starting a big coalition (or *GOalition*)

Or don’t understand the difference between a subject matter expert (SME) opinion writer, and an opinion writer, and a reporter. A SME might have understood how that first Apple computer in a wood box would lead to the iPhone, where a reporter would have knot.

Here is 90% of people in USA - going to work ALONE in their (oversized) car. But can’t have fast 50 lb e-bikes. We should make people at for all the space they waste with their car in our communities

The space we need for better bikes lanes can be found in the empty seats of the oversized cars. 90% of people in USA go alone to work in a car. Very complicated to address, but not impossible

A 3-ton SUV with bad brakes carries tons more (often fatal) kinetic energy than a 50-lb e-bike — yet we’re talking of regulating local vehicles, not the beast. We should better manage oversized car use. Let’s build respect and space for lighter, slower, more sustainable ways to move. We can do it.

I would not put it past them. (But all and all such actions seem to be signs of desperation - more like someone grasping for straws - like a kid going into a test that didn’t do their homework).

Kinda like the long term data on bus riders. If the rider has to make only 1 transfer on their trip - ridership drops 50%.

What do the first Robotaxis remind you of? They remind me of the first personal computers. I believe they are going to develop in ways few can imagine. And I hope they enable us to move past automobile dependency -soon, and transform our car-centric communities into people-centered Villages :)

Have countries become more or less important since 1969, when the first human took a picture of earth from the moon. Coming from someone that took drugs in high school; every person, every city, and all of nature all being a part of one massive (to us) vehicle simply blows my mind !!

I’d guess it’s always been here, but more visible now. Of I had “cancer” I’d want to know about it ASAP. Seeing it is a step towards healing it imo.

Related: I would bet anything that Automobile Dependency is a big part of the cause of our country’s outrageously high level of Mass Shootings. It’s a reason we are so isolated and human contact is stunted :(

I hope more people come to think like you. I’ve been waiting for decades for carsharing companies to market a “local car” bundle with their “far cars”, highway-capable and can be rented by the hour. The small local cars can get you to the Far Car rental hub or pod location easily. Still waiting :(

Wish our country was more focused on ** Passing Gas **

Imagine if we thought of transportation in terms of Near + Far - and our community and town centers more like (ocean) “Harbors”. Our oversized highway cars are like “Yachts”, but we encouraged small “Dinghy’s” - much smaller vehicles, bikes, etc for our many Local trips.

As a USA resident who cares deeply about reducing crashes, reducing CO2 emissions, greatly lowering one’s mobility costs, seeing far more active modes used, creating people-centered communities, and putting parking and street space to better use; I want to see robotaxis thrive.

Sure, just like how hundreds of little robots zip around (within an inch) of each other in an Amazon fulfillment center - Never CRASHING once! Computers already control vehicles better than humans - and expect them to get even way better.

Criminal negligence

wish there was a “Mayday!” icon next to the heart icon to click on - to appreciate this information being brought to my attention

It’s more than stupid. Given his large amount of influence as POTUS, his position on the environment + climate can easily be seen simply as a Crime Against Humanity :(

Apt-sized shared AVs offer to reduce the price of mobility by 8X, vastly reduce land for mobility and emissions, shape thriving communities and see vastly more people use active modes. This is only how I see this future - as a mobility Designer - working on car options for 40 years

Oddly you are a fan of NEVs and LSVs but can only imagine AVs as full-size vehicles.

Every Yacht needs a Dinghy :)

It comes down to creating Safe Travel zones - for all types of smaller | local modes. Like all big yachts have to slow down in the HARBOR. People enjoy golf carts - on a golf course. The safe travel environment is how we massively improve our world

I created the first NEV (GEM), with production start in 1995. I write a lot about how we can build on this start in my book Near to Far (on Amazon). It’s time for apt sized sensible mobility and seamless mobility options :)

You can buy a 3-wheel Arcimoto that has a top speed of 70 mph, which offers no more protection than a NEV or LSV. Reasonable “Local Car” regs would help the USA in a major way. If only those that seek smart + sensible mobility actually worked together - a lot would be possible