• Phlogiston@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The extremes always look silly. Take for example the little dick energy of a big lifted pickup with tiny wheels blowing coal.

    Where the fuckcars folks are correct is that many many car drivers claim they NEED some monstrously fast, big, powerful, etc vehicle and to drive too fast, take up lots of room, crush people, look “cool” etc to go a few miles to buy some milk.

    Any rural town with a speed limit near a school knows that when people get into their cars a lot of excuses for why they need a car become armor for why they need to be allowed to drive like dicks.

    I don’t think we’d see fuckcars have nearly the staying power if those people were driving sensible vehicles at sensible speeds and didn’t claim priority over every piece of road.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Totally agree with this although it’s a uniquely an american problem. In my neck of the woods, cars are more sensible and I would still say there’s a lot more room for improvement, both in what people are alowed to take on the roads and public transportation options.

      But the circlejerk that is fuckcars makes even the people driving the Renault Twizy seem like monsters.