Just as drug dealers, policy makers refer to us as ‘users’.
With detrimental effects on safety, sustainability, equality, health, quality of life.
Many ‘innovations’ are just a next step in this direction.
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Interventions in 1 triggers change in the other. Once aligned, this creates a lock-in.
When mobility gets faster, cheaper, more comfortable, activities can disperse (seek economies of scale)
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It makes everybody car-dependent.
Just reflect on what automated driving will do to this...
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But speed is also a solution. Make travel harder, slower, less comfortable.
We'll have withdrawal symptoms.
But with good prospects for recovery in the long term!
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