Comment by mberning

This has to be the dumbest argument against the automobile that I have yet read, and there have been many posted on HN over the years. The idea that the value and utility of the automobile is diminished because everybody has one is absurd. I’m sure this argument has some appeal to people living in large, congested cities, but that is going to be a very small percentage of commuters in the nation. For the remainder which we seldom hear from they are presumably quite happy with the freedom and utility a personal automobile provides.