At a conference on the future of personal mobility held in Ypsilanti, the talk was smaller cars. Due to a massive jump in urbanization, density, and an aging population, cars will undoubtedly get smaller.
So, the future is still holding off on flying cars.
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Currently 40% of Manhattan residents don’t own a car. Many can afford one, but find the cost of ownership too high when public transportation, bicycle lanes, cabs and walking are less expensive.
Car sharing is growing in many large cities. Paris two years ago launched a bicycle-sharing program that reportedly saved about 10 million kilometers of car trips. Unfortunately, more than half the original bikes were stolen or vandalized, raising the cost to replace them and to improve security.
The other factor encouraging the popularity of smaller vehicles is the desire to contain carbon dioxide emissions, the primary source of climate change.
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