Yeah cool bro just swing around slowly and back into the park tail first while a huge line of people are waiting to get past.
This belongs in goodposting. Driving sucks so hard its such a miserable activity and everyone just seems to accept it for some reason
I love how they sell it as the ultimate expression of freedom.
Yeah dog I feel so free crammed in a tin can waiting on a clogged freeway
Hmm yes I love the freedom of paying tens of thousands of dollars every year for car payments, fuel, maintenance, insurance, and registration, for a machine that spends 95% of its existence sitting outside doing absolutely nothing.
sitting outside doing absolutely nothing
That's not good for the car. You should take out a mortgage to build a little house for it.
lol, omg. the ultimate expression of car brain is the heated garage for car storage, which rural northerners swear by. not because they do any of maintenance on their vehicles and, understandably, would want to make doing the work more pleasant. but just for the car to live and be cozy immediately for their daily 1 hour commute across the salted, but icy roads to the city job in the city they don't want to live in or close to.
personally, i fantasize about having a garage one day so i can never put a car in it, and use the space for like fabrication and messier art projects.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Everytime someone posts about needing a car to not be dependent on the government for transport I die a little inside
When Americans talk about driving I envision it's like the ending to Jesus Camp. Its this all American, morbidly obese, clearly brainwashed evangelical lady just driving her shitty car while right-wing talk radio is blaring in the background. Outside the window, you just see endless treat'n'slop signage and MacMansion Cul-de-sac labyrinths. Then she goes through the carwash, like she's washing away all the sin and filth. She goes "I love America, I love the American lifestyle." like she's trying to convince herself that any of this is worth it.
Just absolute fucking hell on earth.
that's pretty close. a high proportion of our built environment was designed and developed under the assumption that one would be moving 40+ mph through it. much of it includes garish/high contrast signage and symbols meant to elicit a brain response ("gas", "food", "turn here", "stop") and to facilitate, to some degree, entering and exiting of these wide avenues as you hurtle through space in your machine.
the only comparison i can think of to something people who haven't experienced it, is an analogy. think of a pleasant, easy to use website. that's a transportation system in a normal country. now think of the worst website you have ever been to, riddled with popups and autoplaying videos, and you have no pop-up / ad blocker software. that's 90% of roads in urbanized areas in the US. and if you're walking down the little narrow sidewalk (if there even is one), cars constantly speeding past you a few feet away with no protection or buffer, the aesthetic experience is horrifying and deeply alienating and just plain dangerous. in much of the US, the only people doing it are too fuckin' broke to have their own car, because it is so dangerous and unpleasant.
the car-brain thing is deeply self-reinforcing, because for an american to lose their car means being forced into that, especially since the only communities with planning for walkability tend to price out most americans, in terms of cost of living. the idea that if we collectively stopped driving we could reclaim our civic spaces for mass transit, pedestrianism and bicycling never enters the mind. our imaginations of a alternative have been foreclosed on.
Fuck driving. Sometimes I want to go somewhere but I don't want to drive. And I can't do that because there's no public transportation and anything even a little bit interesting is like 30 miles away. Fuck you give me trains.
cars need roads and fuel ergo still dependent on gubmint to be viable
feet are the only truly libertarian means of transportation
Loose,
Footloose,
All of your feet are loose.
Feet,
Loose feet,
You’re going to lose your feet
Nah googoo gaga is the only think libertarians consider. Baby brained assholes.
I am fully convinced that car dependency was a sadistic tool designed to torment poor people. For all the elitist snobbery about how public transit is "for poor people" that couldn't be further from the truth. I'm poor and I'm forced to live in a very remote small town because walkable cities are a privilege for the rich. Have you seen rent prices in places like NY or DC? San Francisco is one of the most walkable cities in the US but has offensively high land values.
Oh, and it's bad enough I have car payments on a depreciating "asset": I am required by law to buy useless ass insurance that will do nothing for me, be at the mercy of oil companies who are currently price gouging just because the president has the wrong color tie, the annual oil change and inspection and repairs that even the most reliable cars need. Oh, and if you're particularly unlucky: you could get a ticket that's becoming more and more likely thanks to the ever growing surveillance state and if you're even less fortunate than that, could get into a crash and be financially ruined.
TL;DR: To spare you all a BMF-tier rant. Car bad, train good. Even porky understands this and wants to keep train all to himself.
The only car insurance you're forced to have is liability insurance in every state I'm aware of. And that's important in a place with no healthcare. I'd say that in our current system, that's a good thing.
Obviously it's better to get rid of the orphan crushing machines themselves, but liability insurance is the literal least a car driver can do.
I enjoy driving fun cars in fun places and hate driving boring cars in boring places
I love how my city has nice wide sidewalks and (what I can barely call in some instances) bike lanes. I also love how they give up any pretense of caring about anyone but car drivers by allowing cars to park on all of these spaces whenever there is an event with insufficient parking (maybe take the free fucking buses).
There were several trash pickup bins in the bike lane last time I went for a ride (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
I wish I was born during the time when teleportation was invented
Driving got better when I moved out of urban areas. I used to live on one of the most populated areas of my state, but recently moved out to the mountains and it’s made driving enjoyable. I know that’s not a solution for everyone tho.
