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Teo and Emily Valdés live in Philadelphia with two small children. When they returned from vacation recently, they discovered the family car had been stolen. That’s when they made a bold decision — to live without owning a car. According to the Washington Post, only 8.4% of US households have no car, and just 33% have only one.
Despite the explosion of alternatives to vehicle ownership — car-sharing platforms, ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft, autonomous taxis, and an assortment of micro-mobility options such as electric scooters to e-bikes — none have made a dent. “It just doesn’t budge,” said Steven Polzin, a research professor at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, referring to the percentage of families with one…
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