I just spent the day watching a local drift event. I rode my bike there and it was awesome. For the nerds: my two favorite cars there were a 3SGE-swapped TE72 Corolla and an S14 with a RB dry sump setup.
Commuting? general transportation? Cars are completely unnecessary. For motorsports, however, cars ARE necessary. What are you gonna do, drift a bike?
A glimpse into the brain of a car enthusiast that hates cars.
"It's useless to use cars as transportation, we should only use the most fuel inefficient fucked up racing versions of them in incredibly dangerous sports for our amusement"
:yes-chad:
:rocz-yes:
A few thousand cars for sporting reasons are a rounding error environmentally and safety wise. The overwhelming majority of people should not be doing their daily commute as a solo driver in an SUV.
"should" is doing a nearly infinite amount of heavy lifting in that sentence
"I'm sorry worker, you're no longer employed because your car that does a fraction of damage of big rigs or cargo ships is polluting. Yes I know that middle class PMCs just work from home, but you burn gas to afford to live in a distant suburb, which is unforgivable. Also, please join me, a person representing a worker's party! Using cars is for LIBS lol"
I mean, sure, if you completely ignore any context a leftist saying "we should get rid of cars" has then it's absolutely absurd in the same sense that ignoring all the context around a surgeon going "we're going to knock you out and slice you open on a table" makes it sound absurd.
There's obviously an unspoken part where we build metric fucktons of high-quality public transit and make cars unnecessary beforehand. I'm not advocating that service industry workers do a death march in order to get yelled at by entitled boomers all day.
In what world would any leftist abolish cars without giving a better option for workers lol
Private cars should not be abolished by just issuing a ban or raising taxes on gas.
Cars should be abolished by changing the way city planning is done, so people will be living in biking-sized neighborhoods, containing housing, workplaces, and the services you need every day like a supermarket, a school etc.
Also priorities should be shifted from building and maintaining roads towards building and maintaining public transit infrastructure.
There should be a better option. Most people will willingly choose the option of public transit if its faster, safer, and cheaper.