Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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Why aren't we all driving around in these things?
I looked into getting one of those. Turns out it was cheaper to buy several used cars than getting a second hand bike like this. I'm not spending €9900 on a banana moped when you can get a Citroën Ami for not that much more.
These velomobiles are unwieldy to ship and produced in small quantities, often by specialist companies. They're also difficult to see in traffic, even for other bikes; for visibility, velomobiles are required to have a little flag at eye height on them, but the people spending 10k on these things don't seem to care much about this law.
They're not fast enough to join main roads at normal speeds, but dangerously fast for bike paths. The people in them have to either pull dangerous manoeuvres to overtake people, or constantly brake and accelerate. I don't think you get regenerative breaking for those things. They also can't take sharp corners that you'll find in some bike paths.
I'm not opposed to them, but they need to gain popularity to drive down the price before they'll work, and even then they require infrastructure changes.
This comment is rational.
For those inter-city bike lanes like you see in some parts of France they would be great.