Im a small minority of biking folk that like parking spaces. Better than them moving around. I do wish parking garages where required to have roof garden parks though. So the top was never allowed to be parking but instead a nature area. Also only garages no lots. I also want them to require spaces made in condos and such must stay with the unit ownership and not be sold seperately.
Years later…
The highways and cars
were sacrificed for agriculture.
I thought that we’d start over
but, I guess I was wrong.Once there were parking lots,
now it’s a peaceful oasis.
This was a Pizza Hut
now it’s all covered with daisies.I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens.“When I was your age we had datacenters the size of fungus farms!”
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone?
You should write a song about that!
Man imagine only have to drive 1 hour a day….
Life without nothing bro
Well, get on making the cars self driving so they can all drive to one big parking garage. Then less of paradise will have to be paved.
What if the car companies lobby the government to ban manual cars and pedestrians from the road so that speeds can be safely increased, thereby increasing noise and particulate pollution and isolating us in between high speed nightmare roads?
Manual driving will go away at some point. And fully autonomous vehicles would be electric, so no noise increase.
Once autonomous vehicles reach a critical mass, there won’t be a real need to own one and auto insurance premiums will skyrocket since human drivers would be the highest risk.
The government probably won’t need to intervene to kill human driving on public roads
Plus the number of vehicles in existence will dramatically decrease, thus lowering total pollution from manufacturing and maintenance.
The fact is that humans are awful at driving; it’s one of the leading causes of death. A computer that doesn’t get tired, intoxicated, or distracted with 360° sensors reporting a great many times per second will be significantly safer than a human.
We’re not there yet, but companies like Waymo are making significant progress.
ban manual cars
increasing noise and particulate pollution
Are they building non-“manual” cars that are noisy and polluting? I’ve never seen the term “manual car” yet, but I’m assuming it means a non-self-driving car, which already includes many electric options.
I haven’t driven a car in about 2 years, now, and I’ve tried to keep up with the news of self-driving developments (and snake oil), but I still think we’ll still see self-driving cars long before we see the ability to remove cars from the equation completely.
Kumbaya.
They mean not automatic. A car that you need to work the gears. A normal car in most places.
They mean human operated vehicles. And Waymo has made significant progress towards fully autonomous vehicles. The whole “humans are actually driving,” thing was misrepresented. Basically the humans were customer support when the vehicle ran into a situation like, “the end of the road is blocked for construction. A U-turn is required but is also a traffic violation.”
True, but you could say this about any type of infrastructure. Plus i hate counting crows.
The Counting Crows version is a cover.
The original was sung by Joni Mitchell.
True but I agree with the OP. I also hate counting crows.
At least they gave between the buried and me their name.
I won’t deny that they suck, but that’s not the song’s fault.
Why do they suck?
They don’t. Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby and Mr. Jones are bangers, and their cover of Friend of the Devil is marvellous.
Taste is subjective.
Also wow. Found the entire Counting Crows fanbase.
Mostly because I still have ears. Without those, they’d be ok I guess.
That doesn’t answer my question
I didn’t say it was.
Big Yellow Taxi is one of the greatest of all time, as other many other Joni Mitchell Songs.
Yeah, they keep flying around and getting behind each other.
Like what other type of infrastructure?
A pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot.
Hotels that are empty most of the year, giant grocery stores where any individual isle is empty the majority of the time, internet cables that have bursts of information but are rarely at their maximum capacity the vast majority of the time.
They are not good comparisons because they are shared infrastructure, but that is what they are getting at.
A real comparison would be a hammer that gets used a few times a year but takes up far less space, doesn’t require roads, doesn’t pollute when you use it, and costs far less to own.
Hotels and grocery stores - yes, they’re there for the same reason as parking lots. To make money for the rich.
The internet cable comparison doesn’t fit. Just because you don’t always need maximum capacity, doesn’t mean you don’t have to account for it. It’s like with sewage pipes, you need to accommodate the worst case or else it can go to shit (in more senses than one) very quickly. In the year of 2026, internet is a basic necessity.
I said they were not good comparisons…
Why’d you bring them up, then? The first two are actually good comparisons.
