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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@stahlbrandt @TDCN @Showroom7561
Lithuania also has a similar law (so it clearly doesn't conflict with any EU human rights legislation), they were donating the confiscated vehicles of DUI offenders to the war effort in Ukraine..
@stahlbrandt @TDCN @Showroom7561
UK has speeding fines partly proportional to income (albeit with maximum of about £1500 or £2000, so still not a deterrent to superrich) and strong penalties for DUI (min 12 months driving ban + fine and 11 years of higher insurance premiums), but vehicles are only confiscated (usually temporarily) for Section 59 offences which normally involve deliberate anti-social driving (doughnuts, drifting, making noise in public areas with illegal exhaust mods) >>
@stahlbrandt @TDCN @Showroom7561
the problem with 20mph zones in some parts of UK is resources aren't always put into enforcement; which requires either "boots on the ground" and/or cameras - both aren't cheap and they are often in middle class residential areas where folk get paranoid about any CCTV camera; even if it is clearly there for traffic enforcement purposes...
@vfrmedia @stahlbrandt @TDCN @Showroom7561 The better solution for that isn't enforcement, but changing road layout in a way that makes 20 mph the maximum that one would like to drive. Still that takes investment and time.
@meijerjt @stahlbrandt @TDCN @Showroom7561
in many parts of England we do have speed reducing layouts (for both 20 and 30 mph roads) such as road narrowing with pedestrian refuges every few hundred metres, and most 20mph streets have parked cars either side.
Even so, there are still those sociopathic motorists who will flout the limits, some even see it as a "protest" similar to environment activists but from the other side. Maybe UK has more of these than other Northern European countries?