Car Sharing: Cure to What Ails Us?
Are car-sharing services like Uber a cure for congestion-choked streets, or merely a band-aid on the underlying chronic condition that is car dependence? So wonders the Washington Post. “Just because we’re driving less doesn’t necessarily signal the end of car culture…By embracing these on-demand services, our reliance on cars isn’t so much eroding as being renewed by a different means.”