--- title: Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs description: Dumping drive-throughs, the powerhouse-in-waiting that is Indonesia, why Twitter needs to aim lower and more. canonical: https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-11T17:01:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:25.626Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 11, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 11, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**To get people out of their cars, let’s dump drive-throughs.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/11/lets-get-rid-of-drive-throughs/) By Emily Badger in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Indonesia is a global powerhouse in the waiting. So why aren’t they throwing their weight around?**](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/indonesia-the-reluctant-giant-15178) By Vikram Nehru in the National Interest **3\.** [**Maybe to survive, Twitter needs to aim lower.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/technology/twitter-to-save-itself-must-scale-back-world-swallowing-ambitions.html) By Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times **4\.** [**The most dangerous time for kids with asthma might be school breaks at home.**](http://news.utexas.edu/2016/02/08/colds-drive-asthma-hospitalizations-for-kids) By the University of Texas at Austin **5\.** [**Why build a windfarm when you can harvest wind energy from trees?**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/piezoelectricity-wind-energy-trees-vibration-resonance) By Michael Byrne in Motherboard  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/"},"headline":"Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs","datePublished":"2016-02-11T17:01:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:25.626Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/","keywords":["Innovation","twitter","indonesia","cars","Asthma"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4217348/drive-throughs/","name":"Why We Need to Get Rid of Drive-Throughs"}}]}] ```