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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Welcome to the club. We have many options today and people ought to slowly transition to a car-free life. I had owned cars on-and-off but I often caught the bus or rode a bike even when I had access to a car.
Its been so much easier. Gone are any worries of where to park, or how much parking is, or traffic, or getting into accidents
Parking was my least favourite, it's worse than the actual driving part. I can't realistically park on-site where I live, and all the nearby roads are filled up too. There are multiple shopping malls and a university. Very busy area! On the unlikely chance that I need a car, I can just rent an EV by the hour. It costs a fortune and I don't really need it anyway.
That sounds awful, and constantly worrying about your 30+ grand car sitting out multiple blocks away with no way to check on it sounds awful.
I had a Mazda Demio (aka Mazda 2) with third party insurance only (no fire or theft because there's no need) and I had the best car alarm possible, I had pretty much every type of sensor but no GPS tracking.
Mazda Demio gets stolen because the key has no electronic security, whereas most cars have some kind of radio signal to authenticate. For the Demio it only needs the key turning in the lock, so I was smart and I got a proper alarm with a tilt sensor too, so nobody can even steal my wheels without triggering the alarm. Thieves will stuff up your ignition by ripping it out and playing with the wires and this happens all the time, even in people's driveways.
A funny story - someone parked their Tesla near the airport on a public road. They were too cheap to pay hundreds of dollars for long-term parking, but because they parked on a public road for several nights, someone stole the tyres lol. They must have thought that because it was "high tech" therefore it was immune to theft. All the thieves had to really do was cover their faces hahaha.
Many of these cheap Mazdas get stolen by teenagers and then the police find the car rammed through a shop window at 2am. I never had that problem, nobody touched my car. If you have a valuable car it's no good, you have to be so proud of it lol. Full insurance is so expensive it's probably a good reason to not own a car again in the next 5-10 years. As soon as there's a storm the premiums go up massively.