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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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Nah.
Car drivers break the law slightly more than cyclists, with a far greater toll.
This separate study came to the same conclusion:
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
And this study:
Cyclists Are More Law-Abiding Than Drivers
Also car drivers cause the vast majority of accidents between bikes and cars.
Four in every five crashes between cars and bicycles caused by driver of car
This seperate study in Melbourne came to the same conclusion:
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/drivers-at-fault-in-majority-of-cycling-accidents/
And this one carried out on behalf of the Department of Transport in London:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling-bike-accidents-study
And this study by The City of Westminster Council:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9
And one from Bavaria, Germany. In 2013-2016,
So that's five separate studies in different cities and countries, using different methodologies, all coming to the same conclusion.
Cheers.
hardly surprising, there’s much less incentive to break road rules when you’re completely vulnerable to everyone around you and balanced on 2 wheels.
Damn, I wish I could save this on lemmy.
Pretty sure you can. Im using Jerboa and can bookmark comments and posts.
Nice, unfortunately not in memmy on ios