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Car-free or significantly car-limited communities. Cars that are safer for pedestrians (not just for occupants in cars). Better traffic safety enforcement.

Automobiles kill ~6k pedestrians and almost 140k are sent to the ER in the US - many of which will have life-altering injuries.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

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There is https://culdesac.com/

But I think the market has basically spoken on automobiles, people are more then willing to take the safety risk for convenience and many are willing to live far far outside the city for one extra bedroom.

>But I think the market has basically spoken on automobiles

I don't know about the US but within the UK you have to pay a premium to live somewhere where you aren't car dependent.

Same in the US but only because areas that are like that are so small and are only location based, not intentional.

It does show there is demand though.

So do what smart cities do and make the livable space larger with efficient public transit.

So you mean Europe?

I would love to see more companies pursuing this angle. But policy at the state at City level are the limiting factor. Single family zoning effectively bans walkable cities. And the vast majority of America is single family zoned.

Came to post something like this. The structural dependence of our society on cars has so many and often immense costs. And so much car use could be made unnecessary with some relatively cheap fixes.

this already exists

google: Western Europe.

Some places are better than others within Europe. It isn't one homogeneous region.

I don't understand. Europe has both urban and rural areas, just like any other continent. I believe you can get by without a car in any town that has a school, some shops, a cinema and a pub, anywhere in the world.

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