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Lovins 12 (1:38)
Topic(s): Alt Vehicles / Car Culture / Government
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Having two tons of steel wrapped around one body is not
necessarily the best way and here you get into everything form
ride-sharing to public transport, in which there have been
dramatic technical advances. Dave Brower used to say, "All
those who believe in individual mass transit, raise your right
foot." Hybrid electric bikes would enable people to bike even
if they're in very hilly country or unfit or infirm. So that's
another extender.
And then, of course, you can make the cars more efficient. So
here I'm just talking about the last of those, but there's
this whole other spectrum of ways to get more access and
mobility with less physical motion and much less fuel use and
hassle. And you shouldn't judge by the way we have done things
before. For example, one of 84 cities in the world, and the
first of them to introduce a really modern bus system,
Curitiba, Brazil, is a city the size of Houston or
Philadelphia, and 3/4s of its commutes are by the bus system.
Many of the people riding the bus have actually gotten out of
their cars to get on the bus because it's faster, cheaper,
safer and more convenient than riding their car.
