#car-dependency

#car-dependency

Researchers at the University of Texas-Arlington found in a new meta-analysis of 26 earlier studies that vehicle miles traveled would increase if U.S. cities made a major shift away from human-driven automobiles, with the papers collectively predicting about a 6-percent bump in average VMT. Worse, they'd still increase more than 5 percent if people shifted away from personally owned cars towards shared autonomous taxis instead.

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The real and perceived need for personal cars on college campuses introduces traffic congestion, crashes, parking demand, and fiscal burdens. Students tend to take travel habits into the world after graduation.

Neil Young's new single, "Let's Roll Again," calls for American automakers to build electric cars but misses a broader point about reducing car dependency.