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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If you include non-fatal injuries, cars would be like way, WAY more dangerous than a train or plane.
Better yet, include people outside of a car who's been injured or killed by one, and those numbers would be astronomical.
Higher yes. Astronomical? I dunno.
Well, around 40,000 people die because of motor vehicles in the US per year.
But the national safety council reported over 5.4 million "medically consulted injuries".
That's a lot of extra people that could be added to those stats.
I can't even imagine the global economic impact of car related death and injuries. In the US, it's around a trillion dollars a year. Imagine if that money was spent on safer forms of transportation.
Sure but a lot of those are things like whiplash etc.
Wiplash can leave you paralyzed or suffer a lifetime of neurological impairment, though.
But in addition to whiplash injuries, you're looking at broken bones, brain and spine damage, loss of limbs, facial disfigurement, burns, etc.
It doesn't go from minor injury to death when it comes to car crashes. There's an entire spectrum of injuries in the middle.
Sure. My point was about injuries outside vs inside the car.
It's way easier to kill someone using a car than getting killed driving one
Sure. I’m just not sure about the astronomical description.
Genuinely curious if someone can do the math.