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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 24 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Cars wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so oversized

And if there weren't so many of them.

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

And if they didn't pollute so much

Edit: oh and the traffic accidents of course! But aside from their size, the required infrastructure, their number, the pollution, and the traffic accidents, cars are totally fine!

Edit 2: And the noise! But other than those things...

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[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 5 points 7 months ago

And noise

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Speaking as an American: And if there were realistic options to driving.

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[–] PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And if Americans could drive. Majority limply hold the steering wheel with one hand, more concerned with looking cool than being in control of their 5 ton truck of entitlement.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago

We suffer from decades of society built up around the assumption that Cars Are The Way, and infrastructure/systems built around supporting cars. Zoning laws that separate business from homes, funding for supporting car infrastructure but not public transit, etc.

What we have, we have because people profited from ensuring cars were the solution most people moved to, then spending that money lobbying for numerous initiatives to ensure life was extremely inconvenient if you didn't have a car.

The solution is neither "accusing anti-car people of having so sense of what's going on", nor "accusing car people of blindly feeding into a bad system". It's gonna take holding industries and lobbyists to account, and sustained action by many concerned citizens across multiple venues.

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