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Virginia will use technology to slow chronic speeders’ cars—and other states are rushing to join in
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Force cars to not be able to go quicker than a brisk walk. Force everyone to either walk or, if they are in a hurry, ride a bike. Your commute just went from a thirty minute drive to a 5 hour bike ride? Sucks to be you. Can't afford a place closer to work? Sucks to be you. Planning on visiting relatives in another state and can't afford air fair and other options, trains or buses, don't go there? Sucks to be you, set aside a week to get there. An elderly relative is flying into the closest airport, with is now a 4 hour drive away, well...better plan accordingly.
@sin_free_for_00_days
People did all of those things before cars existed. #CarBrain #MotoNormativity #FuckCars
BRING BACK HORSES!! That's my solution. Piles of horse shit all over the place again. We need to get rid of electricity too, because all these fucking electric cars. Hashtag something or other like I guess people use on twitter. Never used, so I don't know. PieInTheSky, Shallowthinking? Something like that, right?
Edit: And how in the hell did people pick up elderly relatives from the airport before cars existed?
@sin_free_for_00_days Horse shit is better than car exhaust. No one is dying from cancer, asthma or bronchitis from horse shit. The reason there are no trains or trams near you in the USA is because the automakers and oil companies bought them and shut them down, not because cars are better. How many cars do you see on the road with all the seats full? Cars are too big and too heavy. They go too fast. They need to be smaller and slower. A golf cart is big enough. 30kph is fast enough.
LOL, you need to check your history to see what cities were like before cars came into being. Listen, I'm just having fun for the most part. I think our car culture is fucking stupid and has done untold harm and I am well aware of how car culture came to where it's at. I also think public transportation should be much more wildly available, and free. Part of the commons. Studies have shown that physical mobility has a bigger impact on social and economic growth that any other variable.
But getting rid of cars, or saying that the top speed for all cars should be 30kph is, sorry, stupid and fantasy thinking. It's skipping too many steps. Cars suck. I get that. But so much of the fuckcars movement is focusing just on magically getting rid of cars, when it should be focusing on improving all the other options to the point that cars don't make sense. What really needs to happen is for humans to stop breeding like fucking rats. Which again, is fantasy thinking.
@sin_free_for_00_days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyleH3H137c
Yes, how horrible it was without cars. People were able to go where they wanted without paying $50K plus insurance, gas and registration and they didn't have traffic jams. How did they survive?
Many didn't. Hell, vaccines haven't been around much longer than cars. Before unions? Or way, way back, hunter-gatherer type? I do know that the local Native American tribe that was displaced where I live was said to have had to work approx 2 hours a day to provide for needs, food, shelter. In my opinion they had it better, despite the higher childhood death rates. So, I guess if you go back far enough it can be argued to have been better. But closer history was pretty freaking grim. I'll check your youtube links when I have more time.
Went to the airport?
I somehow doubt that.
@Ilovethebomb
Only because there were no airports. There were seaports. Trains, trolleys and horse drawn carriages went to the seaports.
I'm aware of that, I just felt like pointing out you didn't even remotely think that through.