Cars are unsafe at any speed. We need to ban them.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Alcohol kills more people than cars every year.

Banning cars would radically alter every person's lifestyle and require massive replanning of cities. It's a ridiculous proposal.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The fact that you can't imagine a world without cars is scary. Humans survived 10s of thousands of years without them. We've had cars just over 100 years. They're not integral to the human experience.

    Try to imagine better public transport, more people riding bikes and scooters, walkable cities.

    How much of our cities do we give up to cars? Between roads and parking, it's too much. Even then they still mount the footpath and kill people.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Dude wtf are you talking about, the world is a very different place now to what it was 10000 years ago. It's not that I can't imagine a world without cars, its that the amount of shit that would need to be done to remove cars from modern life would be a massive, slow, expensive project. You'd need to completely redesign cities and pour incalculable amounts of money into the project, while huge swathes of the population protest rabidly against the changes.

    Like, sure you can plan changes to cities to reduce the reliance on cars, but its a long, slow process that takes a huge amount of time and political will to enact. Just saying "ban cars" is an incredibly simple minded, knee jerk reaction to the issue.

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