Start killing rightwingers and conservatives and we just might see a future with less cars
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
1706 points (99.1% liked)
Fuck Cars
12430 readers
862 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
“No” -corrupt politicians controlled by automakers
It's not just that. It's also the wealthy and powerful not wanting to interact with the unwashed masses. That's the largest driving force behind US car-centric infrastructure lately
Crazy proposal: Those billionaire cities, prepare to run one and design it around public transport.
With a million people, each saving $10,000, that would be $10 billion. Start saving and start finding those people now.
You are gonna love Tokyo.
It is going to be hard to do thing like this any time soon in the US & AU because of big oil
Plus the massive distance between cities, suburban areas and outlying rural areas.
Not too mention the decades of extremely car centric infrastructure design connecting them.
This is the hurdle, but we have to find a way. I honestly believe this is a big part of the dysfunction in the USA at the moment. We are so disconnected from each other. Cars exacerbate that problem.
I do love Tokyo. I had a job all lined up to move there this summer, but it fell through :(
But trains are not boring?
Yippie
I was gonna comment "fuck cars" but then I checked where I was.
Fuck cars.
I want trains so people can have cross country road trips on the weekend and not have to stay in their small hometown for the rest of their lives
I lived in Connecticut. I used to live in a city outside the capital, with transport available all the time. Then I moved to the sticks, 50 miles away. Same state, just the most rural part.
In a group I did, they showed a woman being a success story from the program. In the video, she was using our bus systems in rhe cities. 4/5 people chirped up and aggreed, "hey we don't have busses in Connecticut this video is fake". I was like, no yeah, we have busses, just not here.
So many people I met in that area, are born, live, work, retire, and die, without ever stepping foot out of their county.
It's sad.
load more comments
(7 replies)
load more comments
(64 replies)
honestly trains that are more affordable than airplanes is super exciting for me
Look at something like the podbike and imagine that as a self driving micro taxi that goes 50 kmh max. Little embedded energy, material and only needs small batteries and incredibly energy efficient because of aerodynamics (slimmer). Energy efficient even compared to trains or busses, especially in areas or times with lower utilization.
If you want to eliminate cars and make mass transit work as energy efficient as possible, you NEED self driving single seater cars (or double seaters with face to face).
Your proposal sounds a lot like a car, but then slower and self-driving.
Yeah but a car build with bicycle parts. Drastically less energy, recyclable and environmentally sustainable. Build a state owned factory to build a million of these micro cars for the big cities and ban all cars. It's technologically feasible right now and it would be more luxurious for people. You need to add a little bit of honey to your environmentalism lol.
there is always a need for extremely low volume medium distance travel, taxis are currently the most public transit-esq option for this
Thing is that I live near a city that has this (ok not train travel that could replace plane travel) and I just want to be able to afford to live in it.
--rural areas U.S.A has entered the chat-- We need those trains, the stations they serve, and last mile fully electric self-driving vehicles to get our older citizens to their doctor's appointments in the larger cities, and to and from the fancy train stations, and not have them be made to remember to reserve a seat 3-5 days in advance, and be waiting 45 minutes for a bus to show up to take them where they need to be and then another 45 to get back home. Also, last mile fully electric self-driving vehicles for round-trips to grocery stores around town, TIA.
Neighborhood electric vehicles are available. Rural USA can try electric buses. Increasing numbers of buses on routes will help. USA older folk are very un healthy. They are obese. Many are unable to walk in their own and need assistance. This is mostly unique to USA.
view more: next ›