Yes. It’s the bots, see Gersham’s law 'bad comments drive out good comments.

I find a billion to be too hard to conceptualize, but the amount becomes more salient when stated in houses. Too bad I can’t just circle on a map $1,000,000,000 worth of property for a better understanding of the total amount.

1B = 1,000 homes = 4,000 people housed

50B = 50,000 homes = 200,000 people housed

20week of this * 200,000 people a week that could be housed = 4,000,000 people that could have be housed

The writer needs AI to pad the words in an article, and the reader needs AI to sum up an article quickly.

not living near cities

Fewer cars, more green-space in the countryside, so not a huge worry. Cities should really focus on public transit; it fixes so many problems, no more drinking and driving, freeway congestion, traffic accidents, cost of owning car.

Building an apartment building without parking is dumb. Maybe not have 1 space per unit, maybe have 1 space for every two units. Why does everything have to be one extreme or the other. Have an apartment building with only 50% of the units having a parking spot, is a really big win for a car centric city. It’s a good way of pushing the ball.
Also working class people that need affordable housing, probably also need a car as they can’t work from home.

Car industry starts just before WWI.

Roaring 1920s. 10 years good.

Bankrupt in the 1930s. 10 years bad.

Good run from 1949 to 1979. 30 years good.

Almost bankrupt again in the early 1980s. 10 shaky.

Dirty 90s, with bailouts. 10 years shaky.

Sputtering along since 2000-2025. 25 shaky.

Equals:

40 good years.

10 bad years.

45 shaky years.

Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.

Institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals

2% seems like a large number, that is 1 out of every 50 homes. That’s 1 house on every street.
25% just seems insanely large.

Do it! Pass it!

You can get a folding utility trailer https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F51%2Fd8%2F53%2F51d8533930099d1737a9d18475ee01aa.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=90d74e9ac1c14b03c775d8a432b7086dab4ef28396c28c5f9a8daaeed3e85ecc

Why not buy a sedan and use a utility trailer?

All trucks and SUV should be forced to be sold with a proper trailer hitch setup, to be considered a truck or SUV. This would encourage people to use utility trailers.

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Lot’s of people can’t be truck drivers because they can’t be away from their families; having young children, elderly parents. We can transform this into a work-from-home job.

I think that there would be a fortune to make if a company just says they are paying workers to remotely drive cars. They’d be able to get proper regulations in place, and then also take over the entire trucking market. It would still probably cost less than trying to develop the AI.

If a company simply said that their cars are driven remotely by a real person, I think people would be happier with the technology and we’d see such car technology really take-off.

Imagine getting board of driving and paying somebody $20 in another country to drive for a 2 hours for you, while you texted or something

How long before all trucks in the N.America are driven remotely by cheaper labor, that can easily hand off to another driven. The truck would be able to drive virtually endlessly between coasts.

The biggest challenge the USA would face would be all the sabotage of the oil fields, Niagara Falls generating station, nuclear reactors, power plants, power lines going to the USA. The American army would also be over-extended meaning that China would make a play for both Taiwan and much of the eastern portion of Russian, specifically all of Russia’s Pacific coast, right up to Alaska.

If the USA invaded Canada; Nato is over, The USA dollar is over and every country ditches it, World goes into a great depression, France places nuclear missiles in Quebec, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and threatens nuclear war, China would probably take the opportunity to invade Taiwan, Russia would use a small nuclear device in Ukraine as he USA becomes isolated.

Or a small pick-up with a 200 drones in the back, launched close the front of a battle field. Russia lost much of its navy to Ukraine. Anything large and slow is a good target.