Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?

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From: John McCarthy
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:00

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Le Guerrier replies as follows:

     I suggest the horse as a truck replacement, not as a
     car. Not everyone owns a truck (a lorry), so not everyone
     would own a horse, but mostly transport companies in
     fact. Most people are able to bike or walk to the railway
     for their everyday moves, to do casual shopping,
     groceries. Just a bike with a basket or a trike does the
     job.

     There would still be less horses per inhabitant in the human
     city than before 1900, but a much wider railway
     network. Imagine what would have happened if the gas motor
     wouldn't be invented. The railway network would have
     expanded much more, so it would have become easier with time
     to live without a horse.

I guess this is all the detail we can expect from him.
-- 
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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From: John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?
Date: 1999/05/30
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