Originally Posted by
Artkansas
Driving is
not going out of style, as much as I hate to say it. People in China and India are jumping to cars as fast as they possibly can, and there are a lot of them. Meanwhile, here in the West, most of the people who are ever going to abandon cars voluntarily have already done so. As our economy continues to shift to a zero-sum game, more people may actually give up their cars because of math, but in their hearts, for a variety of reasons that have little to do with reason, most humans, east or west, would prefer driving SUVs over riding a bike every single time. It may be that bikes will become more common, but bicycling will never, ever, be as fashionable (i.e. desirable) as driving for the majority of humans.