Yes, it’s a decent statement. I have a specific dislike of TMT main authors for their failure to make it critical.

If SD is the most important, than we have to recognize that the culture wars should be the main focus, the culture wars are the class wars. We need an anti-conservative dominant culture to survive extinction.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2044:_Sandboxing_Cycle

Much like with guns, the availability of weapons makes it easy. A car free city is a city that’s not full of car-based weapons.

The suspect, described by one city leader as being in “full military gear,” died after a shootout with police, law enforcement officials said.

Car rammings are the preferred tactic among U.S. extremists.

Deny claims and raise the premium.

Don’t want to deal with car insurance? Help end car dependency.

That’s on top of the usual salt used to reduce ice on roads.

It’s a well known privacy issue to those who care about privacy. It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security

The good news is that it this information will eventually reach the insurance companies. That should help with terrible car drivers getting some incentives and disincentives to not suck so much.

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - The New York Times

If you want freedom, you get a bicycle.

Similarly, if I drive my car around the side of your house and into your back yard to run you over, I can’t claim “my foot slipped”.

I see one of those posts with cars crashed into houses every week somewhere. No murder charge.

“Oops, my foot slipped on the wrong pedal.”

Intent without confessions and manifestos may not be that easy to prove.

“Did you just hit my car?”

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“Do I look like fucking Ironman?”

Railways:

Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!

Cars and car infrastructure are very expensive. I see that as a growing problem, with resources (budgets) needing to be allocated to more important things.

If you keep “a few” cars, the policy transforms cars into highly desirable status signals due to being luxury products that have some large access privilege. This alone is a huge danger because people in this civilization are raised to be obsessed with chasing status and giving a small minority the huge advantage of cars and car system would probably lead to some type of mafia, political corruption, all kinds of bad shit. And it would maintain DESIRE for cars, and desire is key to creating demand.

The goal should be to eradicate the technology of cars entirely. That’s going to allow for more efficient use of other systems, more efficient use of resources, less pollution, way less class conflict.

I’m not saying that it will eliminate class conflict, because we know that there’s a history of “classes” in public transportation, even in buses. That’s segregation by class (in the US that class system was also mirrored in “race”). That’s a problem we should figure out separately.

Essentially, any time you support the production and use of a luxury, you’re destabilizing society and creating dangerous racing conditions (“race to the bottom”, “rat race”, “arms race”) which means that it’s unsustainable socially and politically.

I am actually from Eastern Europe and in my country, during the “Socialist” regime, there still were cars and they were rare. It drove the people nuts, it was a huge privilege to drive on, to buy one, to fuel one. After 1989 getting cars became a free for all, if you had money, so now the place is almost literally paved with cars in the big cities and most of them are second-hand, with a large number of them being junkers that cause horrible pollution (yes, we are in the EU). I’ve seen it happen, this tragedy. Which is why I say that there can be no stable state of “just a few cars”.

It doesn’t even work industrially, these car factories and car parts factories rely on economies of scale and large production. The lower the production, the more expensive and manual it has to get. Remember, cars started out as a rich people’s dangerous toys.

Similar dynamics apply to car infrastructure. That shit’s expensive. Do you think you’re going to have highways across the land for a fraction of the current car users?

COUCHES THO

No

Rubber tire dust is also toxic to ecosystems, sometimes more than the plastic dust version. As the articles suggest, additives are also a problem, but additives matter to the integrity and qualities of the tires. Best to get rid of cars entirely.

This reminds me of those solar cars. https://wonderfulengineering.com/family-solar-car-stella-runs-completely-on-solar-energy/

it’s safe

but is there time?

Wasn’t she a huge disappointment when she unilaterally suspended/deferred congestion pricing supposedly after divine interventionmeeting an angel some random person in a restaurant? What a piece of shit.

The article is paywalled, so good luck with it. Isn’t “Lemon de” on the conservative carbrain side?

And, yes, speed limits need to be enforced somehow for all motorized vehicles within their contexts. Sidewalks are not for riding fast and bike paths aren’t for riding fast either. Speed limiters are most definitely needed, as is a lot of education. Civilization is 100% not ready for “sharable” scooters either.

GDP📈