Its no coincidence that the same month China passed Japan and became the number 2 economy in the world it also grabbed headlines for every driver’s worst nightmare: the 100km 9 day traffic jam. The roads simply can’t handle the commerce, so the roads become, essentially, something else. A horizontal apartment complex with four-door units and no bathrooms. And like all places of living, food and water is needed. So a whole economy of merchants cropped up to trickle between the cars selling desperately needed food at exaggerated prices. Because what, you’re going to leave you’re car there But the bottom-line is its a clusterfuck. At some point it would be easier to just make a fire-brigade line and hand pass cabbages 80km to the store.
And while we can wince or laugh at Beijing or Moscow for their traffic hell, it’s a fate which awaits us all. As populations increase and we build more electric vehicles our use of private transportation will only expand. Unless I’m mistaken only two possibilities exist (assuming we don’t completely destroy and rebuild our road infrastructure): either we better get used to really living in our car, or we better start learning to move without one. Either all cars become mini mobile homes literally, complete with self driving and total wireless access so other than actually interacting with people outside your car you’ll be able to do everything you already do at home in our car. Sleep, watch entertainment, work, make calls, have sex, raise children for a few consolidated hours. Or the size of a our transportational units needs to be whittled down to the size of a single human: be that a seat on a bus or a bike.
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