There is a social phenomenon in driving motor vehicles, at least in the US, that is bothersome and dangerous: the wide turn. It seems cultural. It happens in every vehicle turning context, but is most dangerous at intersection turns. Instead of slowing down, a driver turns the vehicle opposite to the upcoming turn before making the turn. Can we get a moratorium on this behavior? Just slow down, and make the turn please. #carculture #motorvehicles #carskill

Mes propositions pour une régulation de l'automobile. Je suis un extrémiste parfois. Le débat est ouvert, le billet évoluera selon les propositions et remarques. https://eric.zourit.com/shaare/KUkrgQ #Carculture

@mekkaokereke I’ve become more convinced that there is a stronger correlation between climate denialism or indifference and someone’s dependence or perceived dependence on cars.

So many people believe they need cars, that no matter the threat of climate issues that stem from them, they will fight for more parking, wider highways, faster speed limits.

#carculture has ruined our planet.

Last but absolutely not least (as mentioned above this is NOT a ranking, I despise rankings), my favourite podcast about #Mobility and #Transportation is @TheWarOnCars Co-hosts @Naparstek @sgoodyear and @BrooklynSpoke and their guests are amazing at radicalising their public against the dominant #CarCulture

https://thewaroncars.org/

9/10

@a_watch #carculture

An intermittent, kindly reminder from a retired old prof that #GlobalWarming is the greatest #Crisis that we face as a species. We as an older generation have failed to stop the #ClimateCrisis, but is is not too late to avert the worst effects. We need to immediately

- Move away from Oil and Gas

- Move away from #CarCulture

- Embrace #BikeCulture and #PublicTransport

- Rethink urban design to embrace simplicity and local availability of services and goods.

- Use our most powerful tools = our voices and our vote to remove climate and science deniers from power.

- We need immediate and sustainable #CimateAction

It will not be easy, but #WeCanDoThis

Le territoire de la côte ouest de la Réunion a littéralement massacré une bande de forêt de 3 hectares avec des espèces endémiques pour prolonger la départementale...le long de la nationale. En rouge le trajet de la future route. La verdure a disparu, il n'y a plus que du sable et du caillou. Lors des concertations publiques, les remarques des opposants ont littéralement été ignorées. #974 #Ecocide #CarCulture

#CarCulture #OKboomer

I am a millenial who is old enough to remember when the boomers took the drivers licences away from the greatest generation.

Are we supposed to do the same for them?

The most entitled generation to ever be inflicted upon the earth?

Instead we are trying to make cars that drive themselves, so that we never have to confront them.

How many children must be killed by elderly drivers and faulty self-driving cars before we put a stop to this? When do we take the boomers' cars away?

@mekkaokereke

I did a lecture on this very issue last term - #Personhood (ideas of self, how you relate to others, how society/government conceptualise the person etc) and #Infrastructure. I do think that #CarDependency #CarCulture, driving around in your own large metal box every day, fosters entitlement and #Individualism; and that there is a correlation between driving a lot and #MAGA etc

My mom reports that neighbors in her senior-living complex often reach a point where they have to give up driving, and regret losing their mobility and independence. She herself has stopped driving at night, as oncoming headlights are too much for her aging eyes. (Those same headlights suck for pedestrians, too.) Retirement planning goes well beyond saving a lot of money and moving to a warm place: mobility is a big factor as well.
#carculture #mobility #urbanism

@MHowell
Thanks, the WP article on #Tesla linked from your link is great
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

But still. One shouldn't consider the #pedestrian and #cyclist fatalities are due to technical glitches - technologists will always promise version n+1 will do miracles.
It's a matter of policy and political will to apply the law, improve the law, change the #road #infrastructure, and change the minds.

#roadSafety #carCulture #shareTheRoad #SafeStreetsForAll

Finally, an alternative to ridiculous "big iron" SUVs: New Telo E-Truck has the footprint of Minicooper but the bed & interior space of a Toyota Tacoma. It's fast, high-mileage & has modular design.

#EV #carculture #sustainability #Design #Telo

https://www.inverse.com/tech/telo-ev-small-pickup-truck-price-release-date?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=7bcc125015

No one at #AAA or the Governor’s Highway Safety Association is a #Pedestrian #Safety expert. They are car & highway industry lobbyists whose job is to convince the public that the horrific toll #CarCulture takes on pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, communities, and the environment is an acceptable cost of “progress” and mostly the fault of the victims.

Hey! I'm walkin' here! #CarCulture #WalkersDontPayTaxes #ButMyTrashcans

"Why Modern Cities Need to Look to the 19th Century for Inspiration" via The David McWilliams Podcast #CarCulture. https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/id1462649946?i=1000617562895.

The problem with car-centric infrastructure is that you will eventually run out of poor or politically-powerless communities or nature to bulldoze. #carculture

Does #NHTSA have regulatory power?

Sure seems like the answer is "No".

There have been 736 crashes in the USA, including 17 fatal crashes since 2019 with #Tesla in Autopilot mode.

There are clear flaws in the technology being tested in real time on America’s roads.
#CarCulture
https://wapo.st/3qBjAsu

Bigger isn't better - it's stupid:

How U.S. automakers found a loophole in regulation & then marketed us into wanting oversized, dangerous SUVs and trucks while denying us access to safer, practical vehicles used all over the world.

Highlight: Showing how you can line up 17 kids in front of one of these monsters and they are still _invisible_ to the driver.

#carculture #safety #walking #urbanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

I've been thinking a lot about how American lawns are an extension of #carculture: Trucks & vans bringing and spraying pesticides and fertilizers; Trucks & vans hauling rider lawn mowers; Trucks & vans arriving with gas-powered leaf blowers and weed wackers. All of these parking on our public streets. The noise pollution. The air pollution. The visual pollution. The impact on wildlife. #gardening #lawn #climatecrisis #fossilfuels #noisepollution #suburbia

Rick Ross held a #ghetto car show!  Beautiful cars, well loved & cherished. If only these blacks put the same level of personal pride & prize into #education

Ghettoizing the Italian cars is heartbreaking!

#rickross  #carshow  #promiseland  #gunviolence  #newmoney #atlanta #blackculturecelebration #carculture