Daily Exasperation #3

Wasting Away Again In Cargaritaville

A golf cart is a reasonably fine way to get around in certain circumstances. It’s slower (and safer) than a car and more spacious than a moped. Sure it still runs on petrol (except maybe in the future it might run on electricity! Or hydrogen?) but it provides a mobility that we don’t often talk about because we don’t often build places where golf carts add a safe mobility option. Should we?

My friend, Louis Pappas—co-founder of Electric Avenue—put me onto a New Yorker article from a few years back entitled “Retirement the Margaritaville Way” (The New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten, 03/21/22). I also didn’t not go to Margaritaville in Times Square last night. The good life didn’t escape even this exasperated one, but I do want to take time to talk about mobility outside of the traditional sense and how the future might look without a dominant car…