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America's love with cars is founded on fear and selfishness (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably not too unpopular here.

Standing waiting for the bus in my city with decent transit and I have 2 trucks rev their engines loudly past me, another one letting just clouds of pollution, watching people driving who aren't paying attention and several people blowing cutting last second through a light. All in just 3 minutes by a small corner with light traffic.

Made me think how cars are inherently selfish. People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around. In addition to that, some go out of their way to make their cars even worse to people outside of them.

No wonder we can't move away from them. They are a definition of our own culture

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I live in the midwest and that is fairly accurate for the most part. But when I travel to cities I favor public transportation where I can. I do know that only works becsuse I am staying in downtown areas where they haven't killed the public transportation yet, but there are examples that it still works and could be expanded if we decided to do so.