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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonormativity

The concept of motonormativity describes how car dependency is created and reinforced, and how the health hazards of cars are downplayed and obscured

Yep.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Loving father wiped out by driver on phone over the limit in a car far bigger than is necessary traveling faster than is safe. Suspended sentence and behind the wheel again next year after a class on speed awareness they will most likely sleep though.

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 hour ago

personally i think ripping up the tarmac will do more to reduce car crash dearhs than locking people up for a hundred years

[–] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 day ago

Makes a car the ideal murder weapon. It's ridiculous and needs to stop.