Politics of Cars

An accident means nobody can be held accountable, therefore a government that considers car crashes as accidents must never be allowed to build or operate roads.

Trucker heists are going high tech, faking driver IDs and GPS coordinates. Still physically hitting escort cars though. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... @adriandaub.bsky.social maybe a coda for your trucker book? Look at all that copper.

Helmet discourse warning: A good compromise with helmet scolds would be wearing it while a cop pulls over some truck going 1 mph over the speed limit beside the bike path, and delivering a safety PSA as the driver gets a ticket.

It's worse. Saw this post while looking for counterexamples. Not only has #abolition /depolicing not gone further. Also, seemingly no opponents of policing are taking the Win on traffic enforcement and pushing alternative strategies (eg, advocacy for much higher insurance liability $ for victims)

Karma found a fitting punishment (marriage to Stephen Miller) for this person who drives a car despite knowing she's not competent to do so. Let it be a warning to others.

driving is coded as white in American society. That's eg why the default is for cops not to enforce rules against drivers. These targets of racist propaganda are driving luxury cars, because people of color driving better cars transgresses the audience's racist social mores more than generic wealth

risked taking the bus (more expensive than driving) on a route with a lot of cancellations, knowing there's a chance I'll be stranded and need to pay for an Uber (much more expensive) Congestion pricing on taxis not personal cars is telling choice riders to choose to drive

@wtyppod.bsky.social shake hands with danger "The NRC performed an inspection at Palisades in July over concerns about safety awareness. It followed an incident last year in which a worker fell into the reactor cavity, ingested some water and was sent off-site for medical attention." future ep?

💯 In addition to the racist power dynamics between drivers and normal people in public generally, it is very hard to imagine Thomas Lake or the AJC publishing a "maybe murdering people is cool and good if it saves a driver a few seconds?" article unless the driver is white specifically

Road rage is a complicated problem, but this particular case would have been simple if doctors were mandatory reporters for dangerous drivers and Jerry Ross lost his license long ago. Instead Ross violently attacked people with his SUV, shows no remorse, and THE CARBRAIN JUDGE STILL LETS HIM DRIVE!

Red light cameras are good! Like congestion pricing, they're even more helpful in other US cities with more driving, but they're more politically feasible in NYC because car owners are a less powerful voting block. Drivers are the enemy of transportation reform. Like MAGA, appeasing them won't work

slopulism for driving from Democratic candidate for governor (disproportionately helping the rich) even when their opponent has not done so It's too late to have a deeper conversation before this election, but this slop would have no place in a party with a coherent plan for reducing cost of living

[reading Aristotle's ethics on the bus] ah yes, he understands why non-drivers should lead transportation policy!

US carbrains whine about our low gas taxes, but imagine their reactions if gas pumps latched on and couldn't be extracted or pump gas for 30 minutes at a time as frequently as buses are cancelled or delayed in addition to fares often being more expensive than driving per trip

My rather battered sticker remains aposite... 😔

Escalating property tax credits for rich elderly homeowners, especially tied to the original purchase price, subsidize remaining in car dependent mcmansions and jeopardizing the lives of others when they go out, instead of responsibly retiring somewhere they can ride bikes or transit.

I have no idea what positive systemic change would be blocked by @sundance.bikesky.social 's posts. Maybe some bikers live. Maybe some people ride more, and help normalize biking in the US. The light is a reminder that drivers fail to follow the law about passing safely, that's a good message!

Driving a truck through a soccer field is not an accident. We already have abolition for traffic violence. The only job the police are doing here is protecting the killer.

Jesus Christ: Helen Haines was a key independent pro-climate vote who was also instrumental in creating the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission

general take on Waymo I want transit not robocabs. I also want Waymo fighting drivers (the actual enemy) because, unlike the bike lobby, they have money to fight Need regulations to protect pedestrians, bike lanes, etc, of course, but those are secondary for them vs drivers clogging roads for free

Driving in the US is a realm of de facto abolitionism the level of interest in preventive safety, or non-carceral justice after crashes (from disproportionately wealthy drivers towards poorer victims), from society broadly or abolitionists in particular bodes poorly for future justice reform

They even added the SpaceX style infographics, sigh In a flying Tesla roadster, nobody can hear you scream

US DOTs enable murders like this with no fees, physical barriers to entry, or tracking for cars and it's business as usual some vandalism occurs at train stations and the entire US political spectrum supports fares, fare gates, and tracking of people on transit www.wtoc.com/2026/10/15/c...

Transportation reform, car dependency, yada yada Imagine if a non-driver politician was this cogent about how they felt towards drivers (often including right wing opponents) who explicitly use their vehicles to violently threaten or make public space hostile to anyone not occupying a car.

Carbrains see this image and, with a tear in their eye, say "they grow up so fast" since that black SUV reminds them of their own car that they value more than life itself

Also if we rebuilt our transportation infrastructure to give kids independent mobility through transit, walking, and biking, that would give many parents with multiple kids lots of time back each day. Although I see this mostly as a way to get around how tiny most cash benefit proposals are.

A truly horrendous fact pattern. The immediate aftermath of the crash and actions the day after reflect drivers' expectation that they can get away with hit and runs. Not clear if the murderer would have been identified but for his passenger going to the police.

These chases are atrocious. Not doing these chases would be a lot more viable if we had effective tracking of cars and retractable bollards. Can't assume the murderer going 110 without lights on is going to have a registration to be looked up later. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/10/11/i...

"Every driver should follow the speed limit" is like "every biker should wear a helmet" Except speeding drivers cause thousands of excess deaths each year, and there are many valid reasons against helmets depending on circumstances. Yet the drivers who most support mandatory helmets, also speed.

I don't know the regulatory situation in the UK. But in the US there are a lot of gas stations that should be confiscated from their owners, and a lot of drivers buying these nitrous oxide canisters who should lose their licenses. www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resou...

It's still morning in Reagan's America, meanwhile China has gone far into the 21st century

This is also an urbanist issue. GOP has its own climate denying aims. For elected Dems, like EVs, solar tariffs are about helping win over primarily factory owners and less-so workers in rural areas. At the expense of climate, but also their urban voter base paying more for electricity.

Pictured are a child crusher 5000 with a hood that comes up to the chest of an average adult, and another truck designed to intimidate and kill even the driver of the first one. So much gender (derogatory), "POWER STROKE" indeed.