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Car Enthusiasts Should Hate Car Dependency. Here’s Why.
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It’s always blown my mind that people say “you’re more likely to die on your way to the airport than in a plane crash” & only focus on the odds of not dying on a plane, instead of focusing on the fact that cars are so much more dangerous, you’re safer 30,000 feet in the air. Fuck car dependency.
It’s always blown my mind that people say “you’re more likely to die on your way to the airport than in a plane crash” & only focus on the odds of not dying on a plane, instead of focusing on the fact that cars are so much more dangerous, you’re safer 30,000 feet in the air. Fuck car dependency.
Kinda a bad video. Cars carry people. Cities are still designed around transporting people. That’s one example
Obviously. What car enthusiast would want commuter traffic getting in the way of driving for fun?
I guess “car dependency” is the new buzz phrase about how we should all eat the bugs and not use electricity and not own anything and be happy about it.
The irony of a video that shames people for distracted driving while recording a monologue while driving during rush hour.
Edit: I posted a comment on youtube as well, to which he replied “Are you not capable of talking while driving? :laughing emoji:” He has since deleted this reply.
In other news, the sky is blue.
This was just repeating over and over how there’s too many cars on the street.
It was closer to an editorial than an informative video.
man those LA freeways look miserable as fuck
So what are the ways to prevent car dependency?
Mass public transit? which is only effective/efficient with decent population density…and we keep making suburbs, rather than mid-high rises…
I honestly agree…as much as I love driving my car, but the way america is set up..they didnt handle public transportation so well, specially if you in the west coast lol.
In america i would add.
Where i live it’s totally different there is no comparison. The biggest highway has 3 lanes
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Anti-car losers try not to be insufferable challenge (impossible) (they WANT to rely on corporations to be able to travel)
It was a trap allalong. People were lured to buy homes farther away because of car availability, which made then using cars mandatory.
The problem isn’t too many cars, it’s too many people.
Make subways and busses safer, first. We use cars to avoid nutters on public transport.
Such an obvious propaganda piece. Go fuck yourself.
My country is extremely car dependent as well. I should get a nice camera to make a video about this too. At least in America, the sidewalks still have some space to walk in groups. Not here, sidewalks is like 1 or 2 person lane.
This is a trend. Matt Farah (of The Smoking Tire) has been interested in alternative transportation options and electric bikes for a while, and even [Doug Demuro seems to have been orange pilled recently…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjYzO_EpFo&t=770s)
I took my brother in law (who drives for a living) (I’m in eastern europe) with the train to go to the beach and he confessed to me that it’s way nicer with the train because you have a different perspective (and point of view) as in the train you are a bit higher than in the car and can sometimes see more and further, he doesn’t have to worry about constantly paying attention to the road and can enjoy the scenery. He would also pay less on a ticket than he would for the fuel. Hoever even though he has only good things to say about this method of transportation the reason he doesn’t change to train is habit and convenience. He prefers go out of his house and instantly hop in the car than walk 5-10-15 mins to the public transportation.
Was talking with my kids about why American cars are built the way they are, and I realized something: This start much further back that cars.
Look at saddle design. When Americans took to the west, a new kind of saddle evolved, one designed around the weeks-long rides that were unique to the environment. That translates most directly to motorcycle: look at the difference in how early motorcycles were built in America and Europe…ours were made to let the rider sit back more, ride in greater comfort as we could travel thousands of miles in one direction.
Our cars are built the same way. In a nation almost 3,000 miles across, we built our cars for long-distance travel. We made the comfortable. And in doing so, we made ourselves willing to spend a lot more time in them. So we tolerated the longer and longer commutes and traffic problems.
And of course it didn’t help that car dependency aligned with the business interests of both oil producers and car manufacturers, two major sources of revenue and jobs in America in the mid-20th century when a lot of cities experienced their greatest booms. Their lobbying certainly didn’t make things better, but ultimately the greater problem is we built a culture first.
That’s a duh moment lol, no one likes the traffic enthusiast or not.
Here’s another one about cars by [Climate Town](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo&ab_channel=ClimateTown).
I feel the same way about gun enthusiasts and gun control. As a responsible gun owner and hunter I can’t even go to a public range anymore to sight in my rifle without putting my life at risk. These ranges are full of absolute idiots that have no business around firearms, complete lack of knowledge or etiquette, so frustrating. Make it harder for these morons to ruin my time at the range.
Try biking or public transportation in West Texas… Especially in July.
At 16:20, there is a biker in the right lane bypassing a truck that is also turning right.
Bikers need to stop doing that. The driver is looking to the left before making that turn, and is completely unaware that a biker passed him on the right.
The issue is that public transport is still so far away from the comfort and convenience of cars that they can’t be considered a replacement. I can’t buy a TV or a balcony table and change three busses and a train while carrying it. And hell, I’d rather wait an extra hour in traffic than squeeze into a tiny seat, next to smelly or annoying people.