The idea of phasing out car ownership, isn't an idea of mine, it was the prevailing idea when I had the pleasure of attending an International Architectural Design Charrette in Copenhagen. I had access to a variety of international architects, town planners and general designers, many who considered car driving to be a bad habit, akin to smoking, or drinking. I felt positively outdated at my previous views on car ownership. It was there that purported the massive expansion of the bus and rail network, and cycling for short distance journeys and that car driving is a decadent habit that this planet can no longer sustain. If many leading town planners, architects and specialists believe this now. Car ownership
will become a thing of the past.
Have we not considered how inefficient cars in general are and much space each car occupies, fitted with 5 - 7 seats, but the majority of the time carrying only 1 person, and how much land is dedicated to cars, vs land dedicated for rail. Sure stations like Waterloo seem vast, but pale in significance to say the long stay carparks required for Heathrow, many motorway junctions, Or even the amount of general space roads take up in cities.
Self driving cars still require parking spaces, motorway junctions and roads. (For the forum pedants I'm aware roads aren't just used exclusively by cars, but take cars out of the equation and you can massively downsize the road infrastructure.) Overall cars create an absolute vast wastage of land.
For a train forum we sure are anti-Rail. Although I think it's more a case of being anti progress, a common theme on here ...
There speaks a man who is clearly fit and healthy and not disabled
You make a very good point, however I believe in a world without private motoring, things can be made better for those with restricted mobility, there'd be no curbs, and I can see there being adequate scope for self driving mobility vehicles being available for those who need them due to disabilities or work requiring it and due to a lack of unnecessary motorists, your journey could be quicker with less congestion.
You seem to have included all cyclists, - is this a pathological hatred of anybody on an unpowered two-wheel road vehicle, or is it just a mistake in your post?
Ah excellent, being deliberately facetious in their writing, in order to generate discussion like I was, touche, sir. But on the off chance you do require some clarification, for your benefit; I don't believe that
all cyclists are over defensive, pompous idiots, but enough of them are for this cultural phenomenon to be noticeable.
If you want to continue this discussion about cyclists further, I'd suggest creating a separate thread or PM me.