alt Hacker NewsI said:
> Cars should also be reserved for [...] and various other niche uses.
to which you replied:
> I don't want to spend 6 hours commuting a daily in the UK. I've done this btw in the UK a decade ago. It was miserable.
6 hours per day commuting is 3 hours one way, which in almost every country in the world is called "super commuting" and it affects a very small minority of people:
https://www.jmfassociates.co.uk/news/news/how-long-is-the-av...
-> the average commute is under 30 minutes each way.
-> commutes longer than 2 hours affect only 2% of workers.
So yeah, that's what "niche" means.
Besides that, I literally listed some recommended distances (up to 1km for walking, up to 10-12k for cycling), don't tell me your commute was 3h one way for a distance under 12km? You can walk 12km in less than 3h one way :-)
If you watched the video. The point is that it was something like a 2 and a half hour commute via public transport, it was much shorter while driving. It isn't a "super commute" if you are travelling less than an hour.
A commute in a car that less than an hour isn't niche.