What a Commute in a Car-Free City Might Be Like

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Imagine a world where personal-vehicle ownership has been banned. Here's what a commute home from the office might look like in a car-free city in 2040.

Look out any window in most urban areas and you’ll see. Every year the arteries of the world’s biggest cities become more clogged. By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities, analysts estimate, creating a string of global megacities even more crowded and polluted than today.

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Author lives in Germany. Maybe he needs to understand a little more about the rest of the world.

Not everyone lives in/near a city. Come see what happens when you try to take my car!

That would be best, the president already does not drive. It would be nice if each street, towns, cities, just had identical self driving cars, nobody would have to worry about asset theft; upkeep would be a community endeavor, it already is. Lessstressisbetter

You will own nothing, and you'll be happy. Klaus Schwabb

Imagine a world where there is no moronic stupid media publishing BS like this

You just love pushing that Klaus Schwab bull shit, don't you?

Sounds like an authoritative dictatorship. History will repeat itself, only to show in up in newer modern forms. It is our job to recognize these threats before it’s too late.

Well that world will never exist because I love my car.

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