The other half is "some other schmuck thinking this will snuff me out", which, fair, but how do you not arrive at the conclusion the eternal arms race of weight and height with cars is like, super bad?

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I say this a lot but I genuinely think personal vehicles are too much responsibility for people en masse. I know that’s not a convincing proposition to the unconverted but I think it’s true.

Even me, I phone shit in waaaaaay more than I think is acceptable lol and I think most people, if they were honest, would say the same. I don’t believe a single American is locked in driving like they’d act like if you started questioning them about this stuff

I don’t think anyone would design society in this way intentionally if given the choice lol. It’s wildly inefficient and dangerous, we’re just used to it and it made a lot of automobile lobbyists rich along the way

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I say this a lot but I genuinely think personal vehicles are too much responsibility for people en masse.

nerd : a bicycle is an individual vehicle

But otherwise, yes.

I don’t think anyone would design society in this way intentionally if giving the choice

Disagree'd here due to carbrain as an effect of having done it too long

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

a bicycle is an individual vehicle

unironically a good way of thinking about it

A bicycle is an appropriately individual vehicle in that is a 1 Human power vehicle to carry 1 human rather than 100 horsepower vehicle to carry uh 1 human

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