But don't let us catch you using it as one, that's illegal.

Yeah whats actually convenient is being able to step out your home, jump into the tram, read the newspaper for 15 minutes, jump out and have teleported to work.

“Just a little more neoliberalism, bro, I swear we’ll usher in an era of prosperity if we just do it harder”

Fascism is capitalism in decline.

Trains are convenient until you want to go somewhere without rails :( which I guess could be solved with more rails...

America, fuck yeah

Nothing a triple bypass and a meat king supreme can't fix

I'm gonna go for the ok-ish comfort box that was kinda cheap and missing fancier new bits but was kinda decent when it came out just kinda old now and somehow mostly still works

Fascinating! Seems I have to thank the artists of my past for my supplemental progressive education.

Yo, not bad.

Check it; double rail.. side by side connectable trains. Somehow.

Even the Netherlands. poster child of biking 😔

I wish the statistic include motorcycle/moped, then show the statistic from Asian country like Taiwan or Philippines or Malaysia, car and motorcycle have equal share on the road yet it still a fucking mess here(at least in Malaysia).

And for most of the countries that don't have a lot of cars, it's not because they've decided to invest in public transit and bike lanes, it's that people are poor and can't yet afford cars. Like, India and Brazil aren't places where people love public transit, they're poor.

What happened to China is likely going to happen to them as they get richer. Even if the world switches over to electric vehicles that's still vast resources plowed into massively inefficient sofas on wheels.

Very anecdotal so feel free to disregard, but I've traveled across the whole Europe and haven't seen anything like that in the picture.

Maybe the closest thing was a toll gateway somewhere in France where road widened up to about 20 booths. But then it immediately narrowed back to three.

If you add up the India bars, you're quite far away from 100 % still... Mass NEET is the answer I guess.

almost all countries have about twice as many people driving

No country except the US, according to your own graphic. 67% or more of "Own car" is the criterion.
Unless, of course, by "driving" you also mean motorbikes, boats etc. and there's a sizable portion of these in some countries. The graphic doesn't show that.

We're mostly going the other way in Western Europe

Not particularly quickly in most places, mind, but we're heading in the right direction on that at least

It blows Americans minds when they hear about how people go skiing in Switzerland, taking public transit from their front door to the foot of the ski hills.

On the way back, they can warm up with a gluhwein before taking public transit back. No worries about driving drunk since they're not driving.

My grandmother was trapped inside her house for years at the end of her life. All she could do was wait for people to visit her because she couldn't drive.

When I lived in a small city in Japan, if I went out during the day, there were ancient people all over the place who had taken the bus into town.

Anybody who would say that the American way of throwing elderly people to the wolves is better... Well, anyone who says that is just an inhuman monster, aren't they?

Relying on the automobile has made us exceptionally vulnerable. At any time our only means of achieving an income can be removed. We spend magnitudes more money than we could otherwise and everything from building infrastructure to support so many cars everywhere, to the cost of cars and repairs, too the ability of others to take that away from us at a moment's notice.

With designed cities we could have housing on a direct line to our business sectors on a public transit, which would free up a substantial portion of our income, while if the housing was constructed intelligently and fairly we would free up the better part of half of our costs to live.

Also remote work could Free People from the commuting nightmare in White Collar work.

"Cars are freedom!" ... so long as you register it with the government, insure it with a private insurance company, carry a photo ID from the government. Where a train you just pay and get on, or a bike you just ride.