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.
"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.