Charlottesville builds a dangerous road, a motorist kills a pedestrian, Kevin paints a crosswalk after city does nothing, city doubles down on own stupidity and charges Kevin with vandalism
Be like Kevin
Don't be like Charlottesville
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/virginia-crosswalk-vandalism-charge-charlottesville
@capntransit Just wrote a message to the #WAMC facebook page about how I was intending a donation to WAMC and am now reconsidering because of David Guistina's crazy #carbrained or stupid habit of driving into NYC rather than taking Amtrak or MetroNorth. Astounded at the stupidity.
@marcel_kolaja they're still cars Marcel. We should be reducing cars, not fixating on whether they are fuelled by petrol or rare earth minerals. #environment #CarBrained
@jometro @jakob_thoboell @Radlerin #Karlsruhe is not that bad (by #carbrained German standards) I guess. Hey, I survived 40 years of #cycling here!
How long have we been "educating drivers" though? They're being "educated" by #carbrained instructors who think they are good drivers & any minute of the day you can observe the resulting shit driving.
It’s time to make cycling in city safer #biketooter
https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41491040.html
City College doesn’t want a new bike lane. It’s getting one anyway
https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/07/city-college-san-francisco-bike-lane-frida-kahlo/
If you're gung-ho about the idea of self-driving cars, that might be a sign that you don't actually like driving. 
Why Does The U.S. Destroy Its Cities For Highways?
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When you drive, you put everyone around you at risk, especially those who aren't in cars, while armoring yourself against risk. Said armor is what's dangerous to those around you. Seems kind of selfish. 
Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
Highlights
- Summarises car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices.
- 1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.
- Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.
- Car harm will continue unless policies change; example interventions are discussed.
Abstract
Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories: violence, ill health, social injustice, and environmental damage. We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility. Cars have exacerbated social inequities and damaged ecosystems in every global region, including in remote car-free places. While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility's violence and pollution will be impracticable without the replacement of policies that encourage car harm with policies that reduce it. To that end, the paper briefly summarises interventions that are ready for implementation.
Found via @nerd4cities 's video (All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us), which goes through points made in the article.
This whole "war on cars" bullshit (not to be confused with the War on Cars podcast) is obviously propaganda pushed by the auto industry. Shame they have so much money so they can cram it into every mainstream media outlet. :/
Isn't it telling how the main response to increased injuries and casualties caused by the increase of distracted driving caused by smartphones amounts to victim blaming ("You should all wear high-vis and lights!") instead of actually fixing the problem of distracted driving?
"You can only be free if you use our products." — American auto industry
Pickup Truck Guy: A Brief Psychoanalysis
Dudes who drive pickup trucks: easy to dunk on, but there is A LOT more going on here ---- some of it hilarious, some of it disturbing. But, strangely, in reviewing the comments on my most recent video on this topic, maybe slightly encouraging? Let's explore the mindset of pickup truck guy.
You will never convince me that cars aren't physical manifestations of excess and inefficiency.
Traffic jams are displays of how inefficient cars are for transporting large numbers of people.
Boomers: Driving is just something you do.
Today: What if we made that no longer the case?
Make car corns as loud inside the cars as they are on the outside so people won't abuse them as readily. >:(
Things are so bad in the US that pedestrians crossing the street should probably carry a portable car horn for their own safety. :(
