Originally Posted by
bragi
This has become silly. It's obvious that most of us define car free as not owning a motor vehicle. If you're car lite, you own a car, but use it for only a small minority of trips. I consider myself car lite: I own a car, but my SO is the only one who uses it. I use a bike or walk for at least 90% of my trips. Since I live in a car-centered culture, it's clear that living completely without cars is a pipe dream. This is much easier to define than some people think.
Silly yes. But somebody hijacked an interesting thread (on time spent LCF) with this silly argument.
The purpose of stipulating a working definition is to end the silly arguments so that we can concentrate on more interesting topics.