(Feb 15, 2023 03:36 AM)stryder Wrote: His figures can be out if you take into consideration that the method of how things are applied can be altered.
The problem is that for the last 70 or so years, a majority of the westernised world has aimed towards capitalistic consumerism and therefore consumption. People assume they need all to egocentrically own their own cars and have their own things, which is why there is a limitation to what is achievable.
It is therefore possible for us to work around the problem, however it goes along the lines of socialism in the sense that rather than owning a car, a city or principality would own a car pool that everyone that lives there would use/share. This limits the number of cars needed however it goes against the grain of consumerist yoke and while there would be large contracts for car production to fill those pools, they would not be as near as large as what company executives would rather assume they can squeeze from consumers directly.
Private ownership - the notional ideological bedrock and economic incentivization of Western societies - has proved vastly superior to the command style Soviet system where the state owns practically everything.
That kind of transition might succeed in ironically Scandinavian countries like poster child Norway, or Japan, - owing to the traditional culture of personal responsibility.
Try it in the USA, especially places like Detroit, and expect graffiti marred, filthy people shuttles where it pays to place close attention to the fellow passenger makeup. Although trending omni-surveillance could largely 'solve' that one - at a price!
Folks will always take greater care for what they personally payed for and own. But sure there will need to be a mix with various modes of public transport revamped to be more attractive and convenient to the masses.