[balrog666]

Efficiency is not an objective term. Calling something efficient or inefficient is a subjective value judgement.

Okay by me. People make their own personal judgement on the best way to travel for their particular needs all the time. For the most part, getting into a car and driving to a train station to then go somewhere else where you will need a car when you get there is less efficient than simply driving there to begin with, whatever it's attendant delays. It's the same reason more people drive short-medium hauls rather go through the time-wasting aspects of airplane travel and car rental.

[Tauzero]

Re: #65

Exactly right. When the socialists among us denounce cars as "inefficient", all they're really doing is expressing their personal dislike for the value system of the majority of their fellow citizens, and their desire to veto those individual value judgements with the force of the state.