this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
176 points (91.5% liked)
Fuck Cars
16571 readers
1308 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
When I drive I'm aware that I'm in the killing machine which means to me that if a bike comes to an intersection and doesn't look like they're stopping I consider them having the right of way no matter the situation.
I make space for mopeds and give them also extra care if they're doing something dumb just because in a collision I'm not the one getting injured. For example in a congested roundabout I know they're probably going to filter through and pass in front of my car so I just make space so that it can be done safely.
Safe and predictable.
right? honestly i can't fathom daring to drive faster than 15km/h anywhere there's even a 1% chance of there being people outside of a vehicle nearby.
40km/h on a bike feels uncomfortably fast on a city street! But drivers will merrily fucking do that speed in a pedestrian area, because who gives a fuck if i pulp a toddler or a dog?
Ha, look at this loser with their empathy!
(/s if it wasn't clear)
I treat cyclists and pedestrians the same, I give them priority in most situations. I also know that stop signs and red lights kill cyclists so I don't really expect them to do them, I actually prefer if they just go through and disengage the intersection asap.
Yeah, no explain this to carbrained people an example of a tank driving through an intersection at full speed sounds nuts but in reality it's not that different from cars vs bikes/peds.