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<blockquote data-quote="General Melchett" data-source="post: 1178583" data-attributes="member: 74895"><p>There are many examples where people need cars e.g. driving kids to school/day care, big food shops, helping the elderly/needy, going to work where transport links aren't good enough etc. but Govt/society needs to find a way to reduce 'lazy b'stard' car use. I know so many lazy gits who won't even walk around the corner to their grandparents or friend's house. We live in an era where many parents have become taxi drivers to their entitled kids who won't walk anywhere or take a bus (not a generalisation as I'm sure many do). There are also people who do have access to good transport links but refuse to use it due to cost, lack of reliability or just because they think it's beneath them. </p><p></p><p>At the moment we tax people via the cost of fuel, road tax, cars etc. but there is no incentive for people to walk or cycle other than they don't pay the same tax. It doesn't help when we have a transport system that is unreliable thanks to lack of investment in upgrading infrastructure and underpaid workers who are always liable to go on strike.</p><p></p><p>I read somewhere that in time we will eventually shift away from owning cars and move towards short term hires like zipcar where you will find a nearby car on an app and then use it for however many minutes or hours you need it. Driverless cars will also become part of this model.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="General Melchett, post: 1178583, member: 74895"] There are many examples where people need cars e.g. driving kids to school/day care, big food shops, helping the elderly/needy, going to work where transport links aren't good enough etc. but Govt/society needs to find a way to reduce 'lazy b'stard' car use. I know so many lazy gits who won't even walk around the corner to their grandparents or friend's house. We live in an era where many parents have become taxi drivers to their entitled kids who won't walk anywhere or take a bus (not a generalisation as I'm sure many do). There are also people who do have access to good transport links but refuse to use it due to cost, lack of reliability or just because they think it's beneath them. At the moment we tax people via the cost of fuel, road tax, cars etc. but there is no incentive for people to walk or cycle other than they don't pay the same tax. It doesn't help when we have a transport system that is unreliable thanks to lack of investment in upgrading infrastructure and underpaid workers who are always liable to go on strike. I read somewhere that in time we will eventually shift away from owning cars and move towards short term hires like zipcar where you will find a nearby car on an app and then use it for however many minutes or hours you need it. Driverless cars will also become part of this model. [/QUOTE]
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