There's reasons to think that we are hitting peak car, particularly young people. A growing minority of younger people who don't drive a tool, don't have driving licenses. Every age group under the age of 40 is less likely to drive to have a license than a generation ago. And even though it's who do have licenses driving less far, that this is going in shorter.
The visit of Xi Jinping, China’s president, to Moscow may seem like the solidifying of a simple, anti-Western alliance. But China is walking a delicate line to look after its own interests. A growing minority of young people simply do not want to drive; that will have consequences far beyond roadways. And research on colonising the Moon goes underground.
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