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Lots of folks think self-driving cars are just replacing one problem with another. (A car, after all, is a really a moving room; but we don't want to move rooms, we want to move people.)

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/05/technology/bikes-disrupt-car...



Although electric scooters aren't a great replacement for self-driving cars in a lot of places that aren't California.


You can bike in london and seattle too. Even in snowy canada.


Bikes have bigger wheels than scooters.. Try an electric scooter in a few inches of slush ;)


I walked 1/4 of a mile from work to my hotel room today. In Houston. In 95 degree, extremely humid air. In direct sunlight.

I knew I should've called the hotel's moving room shuttle for that sweet A/C.

Not everyone lives in a perfect, unchanging climate. People like cars because of their utility, including the climate control that you only get because it's a "moving room."


You would've enjoyed being on a bike. Breeze == cooling. I bicycled in Austin, TX for a whole summer and loved every minute of it.




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