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Marshall McLuhan

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan suggests that people value their personal cars as private spaces where they can have solitude and reflect without interruption. Because mass transportation lacks this privacy, it struggles to attract users who seek that alone time during their commute.

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