“All I’m looking for is a sturdy, reliable vehicle that, in the event of a head-on collision, will completely fucking obliterate both the parents and kids in the car we slam into”1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
John Francis is a r/fuckcars hero. After witnessing an oil spill in 1971, he vowed to give up using cars and spent the next 22 years of his life walking everywhere and fighting the oil industry1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
@pushtheneedle: seattle’s public golf courses are all connected by current or future light rail stops and could be 50,000 homes if we prioritized the crisis over people hitting a little golf ball1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/Seattle
The traffic engineering profession is a big part of the problem and needs reform2yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
Disgusting reporting from Los Angeles Magazine. The driver was going 80MPH on a residential street1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
Glad that more people are waking up to the issue of car-dependency, but the whataboutism is still strong1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
6,721 pedestrians where killed in the US in 2020. Meanwhile, federal vehicle safety standards do not include any consideration of pedestrian safety.2yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
So much of our current mental health crisis is caused (or made worse) by car-dependency1yr ⋅ unroja ⋅ r/fuckcars
