re: #565 Slumbering Behemoth

Can you imagine trying to ferry about enough groceries for a family of seven using nothing but public transportation? That would be insane.

I’ve done a lot of hauling on the Max before, maybe not groceries for 7 but about four armloads of stuff, it’s POSSIBLE but not fun. Bring a cart and maybe a partner. *_*

My thing is we’re always going to have cars but the problem is we’ve decided that we all want to be fast AND safe and thus we have passenger cars that weigh 4400lbs. You can make a four seater reasonably safe and half that weight, but you can’t make it death proof.

I’d enjoy a category between say, the motorcycle, and the passenger vehicles we have now, with regard to licensing, safety regs, etc. The european ‘city car”. Like the Smart, only their Smarts are way more efficient than ours. Cars that we make fun of because we don’t understand that gas there is three times what it is hear. Joe American won’t buy a Ford F-350 if gas is 11 bucks a gallon. and we’ll eventually have them here, in some respect.