this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
314 points (97.6% liked)

Fuck Cars

9674 readers
5 users here now

This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.

This community exists for the following reasons:

You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.

Rules

  1. Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.

  2. No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.

  3. Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.

  4. No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.

  5. No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.

  6. No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.

  7. No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.

Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The easy way would be to repeal the chicken tax.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tax by weight

No excuses

No exceptions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago

Yes. EVs shouldn't exist, just like all vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

EVs have plenty of advantages that it wouldn't kill them. No gas tax, for example. They should still pay for the damage they do to the road. Drivers have had far too long ignoring the costs they put onto society by driving massive vehicles.

Also, if this kills EVs along with other heavy vehicles, I don't care. EVs are better than ICEs, but they aren't good.

Edit: Also, taxing by weight effectively taxes pollution due to tires, which we should have. Ideally this would be a tax on the tire by weight, but that's another tax that would need to pass. Negative externalities need to have a cost associated to them. Ignoring them for convenience is how we got into these issues to start with.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why Americans always complain about gas prices, then go ahead and choose the most inefficient vehicles?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

We like to believe our societies are a calm, rational place of logical decision makers.

We're actually a rowdy bunch of anachronistic apes, with a chronic case of the hypocrititis.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

Like with so many things, especially in the US, it seems to me the people complaining most loudly about it are the ones doing everything they can to make the problem worse for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

There's like 340 million of us. Lots of us are idiots. Some aren't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Finally some sense in the regulators. Something like the Hummer EV and Cybertruck shouldn't be legal.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requiring them to change their vehicle designs to better prevent pedestrian fatalities.

Found the problem

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Truck / SUV drivers like : "What pedestrians???"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I walked past a fcking ram the other day and i could barely see over the bonnet.

I'm a grown fucking woman at 170cm, well above the average.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Personally, I have to haul heavy loads across the whole country.

You know what would work better for that though?

Trains. High speed electric trains.

I do not like having to pay off this expensive ass truck.

load more comments
view more: next ›