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Test19s t1_iwco5of wrote

Reply to comment by QuantumQualia in Waymo’s driverless taxis keep making incremental progress, while others flounder by AdmiralKurita

Which is why only radicals want to ban car use on a metropolitan or national scale. Moderate levels of car use in a walkable metropolis is the way to go!

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oiseauvert989 t1_iwgc4aq wrote

Usually what is happening is that moderate changes are proposed and then described as "bans" by opponents rather than proponents.

Bans on vehicles are not effective at that scale. Removing parking and putting in filtered permeability is much more effective. Road diets, cycle networks, bus lanes, urban trees etc. are the way to go.

"Bans" can only really work in inner cities and usually include some built in exceptions. This type of policy effectively already exists in many cases and the only real change is that some cities like Berlin are proposing expanding the boundary of what they consider the inner city. These kind of pragmatic changes are very interesting and exciting for the future.

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