Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Uber, of course, would dispute this. The company insists - despite all common sense ...

Uber, of course, would dispute this. The company insists - despite all common sense *and* peer-reviewed research - that adding more cars to the streets *alleviates* traffic. This is easily disproved: there just isn't any way to swap buses, streetcars, and subways for cars. The road space needed for all those single-occupancy cars pushes everything further apart, which means we need more cars, which means more roads, which means more distance between things, and so on.

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