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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The Cruise autos are definitely garbage and dangerous at the moment, but what about Waymos, like the one that was burnt down?
Waymos are also pretty dangerous.
All driverless cars are more dangerous than a human right now. These companies are beta testing their garbage on live streets.
I am not pro car, I am very much pro AI though
At one point, calculators were worse than humans at the same job. All it took was time and money and now I think everyone can agree we're better off not having to wait 20+ minutes to get a quadratic equation solved.
@Scubus @chaogomu wait you're using AI to solve quadratics? You know this a solved problem, right? Like, there's a formula and everything
Of course they're not using AI to solve quadratics, it's part of the calculator analogy. It's a whole lot quicker to solve a quadratic formula in a calculator than by hand.
No, I use a calculator. My point was that technologies that suck now get better as they age.
It mostly sucks ungodly amounts of electricity for a mediocre result. And I don't think the energy consumed for things like driving a two ton vehicle around, when people can take a bus or a train, is worth it.