People always want to compare charging in a car with filling a gas car. But you can’t fill a car with gas where you park at night or during the day at work or whatever. You *have* to stop at a special place to put gas into it.

The thing about city cars - if a city is well designed, you shouldn’t need to own one. It should be an occasional rental. 

You’d get even better mileage if you didn’t drive a GD truck all over the damn place every day for no reason. 

Perhaps make them only exempt when they’re registered as commercial vehicles in the name of a business? It won’t stop everyone from driving a truck to commute to their office job, but the additional steps might stop some from doing so.

This isn’t going to change things for pedestrian deaths, but…

Or how dare a person outside the car not follow the very basic instructions instilled upon us since we first learned how to walk on our own; ‘Look both ways before you cross the street’, ‘ensure the driver sees you and is stopping before crossing’. A very simple solution is to just put a stop signs at all unprotected…

You just have to wonder about people.

I’ll be sure to let the literal director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center know that you think he’s stretching the truth. 

It’s also somewhat of a forced choice, If they were to refuse to give up the luxuries in favor of the car, it could mean they no longer have the job to fund those luxuries and end up losing them either way. Dare I say, they might be maturing since I would expect years ago people to say they would never sacrifice…

This is the “freedom” that car-dependency provides.

Because I’m seeing the same tall vertical slab of a front end that nearly all American trucks have. To me, this looks incredibly similar to a Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra. Tastes are subjective, and I just prefer the previous design. Also, as an American, it’s not like I see a ton of new Mitsubishi product on the…

why do people buy suvs and crossovers? because you need one vehicle that can do everything. If my city had better public transit and if the midwest had actual rail transit, would I need to own a subaru outback? No. I’d probably have something smaller, that got better gas mileage. But instead, I have to own one car…

All words assembled as a term are semantics, if we want to get pedantic.

Funny enough, I was driving behind one of these gargantuan Nissan thingies just two days ago, as it very gingerly turned right (the center of gravity of the thing is way farther from the center of the Earth than the Earth-Moon one :-b) into a posh cul-de-sac with some upper middle class homes.

Obligatory:

“Cars aren’t the only thing that crash.”

“in a modern society, that’s not a thing.”

ftfy

THIS is literally the definition of car-brained. Where you’ll make any and every excuse on why cars are necessary and prioritize cars over changing habits. 

It seems like hammer-nail thinking: our urban planners in North America saw the rise of the private car as a panacea for actual planning work: rather than working with the geographical constraints to build urban centers that prioritized accessibility for all (including those without cars) to reach a wide range of…