Namaste
I love the freedom of having a "personal chariot" (verse a bunch of benches on a big chariot where you have to wait at some tiny stand to first get on the big chariot, like the bus idea), you get in a personal chariot without waiting and go any of a multitude of directions.
Oddly though, I do like trains and rocket trains and airplanes and such. I like taxis too. But the bus idea, while I do not totally object, is lower on the rug unless it is one of those "tourist buses".
But, while I would find it hard to ever "give up my chariot", the mechanics of the chariot, when improvements are made that benefit the environment, that I like too. For example, I hope the electric car or some alternative is truly a benefit and success (but is it as environmental as they say? Are you sure? ). I even bought stock in Tesla Motors when it was very cheap, and now it is $182 dollars a share so I made good money. Tesla makes some hot electric cars, I love them.
As far as NOT using any kind of chariot, yes I once did an experiment, monitored by many of my rather eccentric friends, decades ago (before marriage) where I lived without (well didn't use - all was there a key or switch away but didn't "turn it over" or on) a car, electricty, heat, nothing. I walked a LONG distance to work instead of driving my 1968 Firebird 400 V8 with McCleod clutch and four barrel with four speed stick. I purposely slept in a sleeping bag on the patio balcony each night, looking up at the slow moving satellites as they followed their steady path across space. Inside at night, I would only burn candles for light. I ate raw vegies, did not use a stove. Bottled water was my only luxury. The TV boob tube was right there, but I never would turn it on. When my friends came over for fun and company, knowing full well my experiment, even on "Super Bowl Sunday" they came, we would simply tell stories, including spookie stuff. Or play the guitar and sing "bhajans". It even got more goofy, when someone suggested I no longer use the toilet, but instead go out in nature. I almost thought to do that, but the furthest I went was to pass urine in a bottle if nighttime, and then find a place "in nature" to pour it out. But I didn't go very far with that, and so ...
The entire experiment blew up in my face if you will, when one day there were about five friends over and it was dark early (Winter time), cold. I had the candles burning as usual.
Actually we were having a grand old time, but I had been lazy with one of the big cans I was using to burn those "camp candles" in. The wax, a lot of it, had accumulated on the bottom of the big can over time. It was also turning sort of greasy.
So like we are going from a living room to a bedroom with another candle to get another chair to bring into the livingroom since someone was sick of sitting on the floor, when suddenly some fantastic spontaneuus combustion of flame shot up from the can burning like a firework up and continously licking towards the ceiling and everyone is shouting you know what, and like someone grabs a fire extinguisher from the kitchen and "rustic be damned" and put out this dancing devil.
Yes I almost burnt the place down. What an idiot I am.
So yes, once I lived without using my car, and to the next level. But you still need to mind your P's and Q's or you may end up polluting the air with burnt rubber, plastics, wood, glues, and God knows what toxins and other living beings as everything burns down to ashes.
For some reason, guys when they go jungle, they still cannot stop lighting fires. I guess that is just what we do.
Burning man.
Om Namah Shivaya
