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 reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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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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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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Rentals.
Here's my hot take: rental e-scooters and e-bikes are dog-shit terrible. They aren't comfortable, don't handle well, where I live they have solid tires which suck for traction and control, they weigh much more than they should, they are often not sized appropriately for each rider, and their power ramp is exceedingly poor compared to what the rider expects.
In other words, they are designed a certain way, and that design makes them much worse to ride.
Unfortunately, the data from rentals typically sets the stage for policy. "Oh, (rental) e-bikes are dangerous? Ban all e-bikes!"
Seconding the size thing. Scooters are easier to size at least, e-bikes are not. The e-bikes near me, for example, are huge and the first time I tried to get on one I literally just fell sideways before I could get anywhere.
Doctors in A&E use the term 'Lime bike leg' for the crush injuries they see because the bikes weigh nearly 30kg and are akin to motorbike crash injuries.
This is compounded by the level of riding and handling skills of those who use those bikes being almost non-existent. My own experience of those riders is that they never shoulder check before moving into a space, just a cursory glance to the floor next to them. They frequently dump them in places where they block pavements and make accessibility for those needing it most, a lot harder.
If you dont want car, you may still need to move from place to place, not everyone is Lance Amstong
Cars have their place, but not for the vast majority of trips that people take. And when you look at cities that are designed to be "car-free", their residents are often much happier for it because those communities are safer, better connected, friendlier, and quieter.