This, in my opinion, is the number one source of road rage: drivers unrealistically expect to zoom around fast, yet it never happens. So they rage.
I love watching them angrily pass me to only make it like 3 cars ahead
3 cars? I’ve seen people do crazy stunts to either end up one car ahead or worse overtake me only find me again at the next traffic light
I think a lot of people get in these unhealthy mind tracks when they’re driving all the time. Passing subconsciously seems like it will speed up the time you’re stuck in traffic or dealing with uncertainty.
In reality, just allowing things to flow the way they will and going with it is a much less stressful existence.
It always makes me smirk when they show a car zooming down a completely empty city street.
The only way that’s going to happen is if you blow through a barricade. I almost expect them to plow into a bunch of marathon runners or something.
Bicycles deliver the freedom auto ads promise
You put the Spider-Man images reversed.
I mean, an ebike + light rail is enough to explore a city and it’s surroundings, but I can think of a few places I’ve visited in my life that would be basically inaccessible without a car.
…or a very, very long roundtrip on train, I suppose. For like two of them.
Still, shouldn’t need a car in an urban area.
There definitely have been, and continue to be, some great experiences in my life that would have been impossible without a car.
But they happen so infrequently that owning a car myself is completely nonsensical from a cost perspective.
Much better to spend a couple hundred bucks a year renting/borrowing a car the 2-3 times I need one, than $10k a year on payments/gas/insurance/parking just so it can take up valuable urban land to sit unused 99% of its life.
Yeah. The only mode of transportation that I own is an ebike. And I could probably cut the “e” part out without too much fuss.
Good panier bags make all the difference though.
I think most people are ok with cars in rural settings but cars don’t work very well in urban areas.
If you didn’t own a car you could still rent one to go out camping or something. I don’t understand why everyone needs to own a 23MPG offroad trail destroyer stegosaurus to maybe go camping twice a year.
Renting is exactly what we did :D Can’t very well bring a whole ass car with you on a plane. Nor should you want to.
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So what would be the alternative of people making this meme? Forcing everyone to use bike or other kinds of public transportations?
That would ignore the main point, that is the fact that most western cities are heavily overcrowded.
Have other viable modes of transport available so people have a choice, and given that other modes are much more space efficient than cars you can have less congestion with less road.
True and it’s not even that hard to achieve that. But every mean of transportation should have its place. Remove cars? No, pretty bad idea. But giving the choice to people of public transportation or make the city bike-safe should be a priority nowadays. Many people will switch from a car once they have it.
