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2023-01-16 19:11:20

I don’t believe that. The problem is that you need a certain number of people for public transportation to work. And not just one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. It’s neither economical nor environmentally friendly if a bus runs for 1-2 passengers. In rural areas, there’s not much to gain from general public transport; at best, special solutions like company buses directly to the factory site make sense. You simply cannot want both. An affordable house with a large garden and public transport connections like in a big city.
You just have to look at the conditions. Our future place of residence has <400 inhabitants. I currently live in a building with 63 apartments, in a community of 3 buildings. These 3 buildings alone probably come close to the entire village in size. Around them are similar buildings. The entire residential complex has about 17,000 sqm and certainly over 1,000 residents. Our new development area has 16,000 sqm and with 20 units maybe accommodates 60-70 residents.

This is also just a conceivable scenario for me. Not in five or ten years, but I think something will develop there. Company buses/bus communities in industrial areas, etc., etc.
My daughter is now 12 and for her it still makes no sense at the moment to want to get a driver’s license (it was different for me... as fast as possible). She can reach the train station in three minutes. The next big city is reached in 30 minutes, the state capital in an hour. For other distances up to roughly 15 km or so, you can also consider an e-bike. And the shuttle bus is still running and will be expanded. By the way, there is no “Taxi Mom”… I’m working.

2023-01-16 20:04:36

Hi,

I can only really imagine the setup with "driving to university across half of NRW every day" if Dad also works around the corner. Otherwise, I just don’t buy it, purely logistically speaking.

Lol, no, of course he’s not driving him daily, otherwise we probably would have already tried to get him admitted to the institution... ;-) The son actually already lives in a shared flat and only comes home every second weekend. Or rather, he gets brought home. I just shake my head about it. A perfect example of the madness of company cars with private use. Driving a car then simply costs nothing...

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Andreas

2023-01-16 20:13:29

Morning,

because no child wants to cycle or walk anymore.

and to prevent exactly that, my children (8 and almost 6) ride their bikes to riding lessons, hockey, guitar, etc. (no, not alone, we go with them).

I have to say that I was born in Münster, where you practically come into the world on a bike. For us, it would have been the absolute maximum embarrassment factor to be driven somewhere by the "mom taxi". That would have been social death... going 5-10 km to a party in the evening was actually nothing special.

Best regards,

Andreas

2023-01-16 20:23:41

I am looking forward to autonomous driving with call cars for city and countryside soon. If these cars are operated in an energy-friendly way, they do not need to be fully occupied but can/may also drive with only one person per route. Without personnel, they should also be quite affordable to use. In fact, I am already very excited about the day I can do without our car. Even the reduction from two cars to one car I find extremely pleasant. My expectations for such a means of transport are quite modest: on call within minutes, reliable, reasonably clean, safe, and relatively affordable. (Die Anruf-Transportmittel müssen auch nicht unbedingt das sein, was wir so unter Auto verstehen; meinetwegen auch solche "Schwebekissendinger" o.ä.. Das wäre sogar noch besser, dann bräuchten wir weniger gut ausgebaute Straßen.)

2023-01-16 20:34:08

Hello,

My demands for such a means of transport are quite modest: available on call within minutes, reliable, reasonably clean, safe, and relatively inexpensive.

Your demands are completely understandable and justified, but unfortunately not achievable in the foreseeable future. Fully autonomous vehicles in the sense of a taxi without a driver will still take a very long time. What is currently sold as autonomous driving is perhaps the first 5-10% of the problem. The issue is unfortunately much, much more complex than Mr. Musk wants to admit.

We can’t wait for that. However, it would already help a lot if a right to home office were anchored in the law, cities consistently focused on bicycles and public transport, and the general truck transport madness were somewhat curbed. That would already remove a lot of traffic. Take a look at cities like Copenhagen.

Best regards,

Andreas

2023-01-16 20:54:51

Well, I would let my bonus child take public transport more often; Berlin has an expensive but quite good public transport system. But his mother doesn’t agree. The route is too long or it gets dark too early in winter - no, that’s too dangerous! I hope that changes when he’s 14 or so. It doesn’t help, of course, that she has subscribed to the police reports.

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