In two years presumably. It’s been two years away since 2015.

Different places have different laws

At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.

Are they going to stop making cars with huge front hoods which are hugely dangerous to pedestrians? Or stop marketing their cars as if they’re meant to be driven dangerously?

As a brit I don’t see this being enforced in the UK. The gov would be too scared that trump or an ally would come to power and we can’t risk effecting the special welationship 👉👈

Clean-car sounds a lot like clean coal

Moroccanoil is an israeli company. The connection to Morocco is that they co-opted a Moroccan product and sell it under their name. There’s no reason to believe that their sponsorship would influence a potential Moroccan entrant.

It’s an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.

It’s deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won’t be a problem here because there won’t be any level crossings.

The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.

The original comment wasn’t even just saying fuck cars, it was a link to a community that discusses the types of infrastructural issues that allow incidents like this to happen. You say that this story isn’t about the infrastructure, but unless we talk about that, nothing will change and these things will continue to happen.

Any time there’s an anti car stance to take, somebody will show up with some pedantic nit pick about times when they’re useful, and I don’t think it’s necessary to caveat the original point to try to get ahead of any of those people. It’s not the only thing to say about this incident but I think it is valid and gets the conversation started about how car dependency is involved here.

I don’t disagree with any of your points. I just also believe that this happens less when there is less dependency on cars. The driver is still at fault, but just blaming her doesn’t prevent this from happening again in the future.

The sentiment isn’t against her car use specifically, but more the infrastructure that makes one completely reliant on a car, and doesn’t give you the option to get the bus home after you’ve had a few drinks.

There’s a lot less stuff in the way in Texas

I wasn’t sure where you were going with the “I would say…” part, so I thought it was worth saying.

And to that I would point out that much of North America was redeveloped for the car, since most cities were once walkable and had great public transport networks. It was redeveloped once so it can be redeveloped again.

But on the personal vehicle side, the practical first step is phasing out ICE vehicles, which brings a huge overall improvement to transport efficiency as it stands.

I don’t like this line of thinking because the resources required to replace every car we have with an electric one (and if things continue as is, they’ll also be bigger). We need to have way fewer cars. Our personal vehicles should be in the shape of bicycles.

I use brouter to route on OSM.

Just to note, this doesn’t apply to every journey, only the really long distance ones.

Amtrak is still the more climate-friendly option for the vast majority of travelers, who on average travel 300 to 400 miles, said Olivia Irvin, a spokeswoman for the rail company. (That is, not many people are crazy enough to go cross-country by train.) A 2022 Department of Transportation study found that traveling by train from Los Angeles to San Diego generated less than half the emissions, per passenger, of flying, or driving. For Boston to New York, an electrified route, taking the train generated less than a fifth the emissions of flying or driving.

What’s the difference between that and being at a protest that blocks a road?

Would you consider it negligent to drive somewhere you know is going to be busy, and therefore have potential to block an ambulance?