Our world is built up of roads and cars to get us to our destination! But what about cycling and even walking? Have we been brainwashed to think that the car is always king?
Si goes on a deep dive into just how we are convinced to think that modern car culture is acceptable in our lives!

Genuinely excellent news.

“We are now set to get London’s air to within legal limits by 2025, 184 years earlier than previously projected.”

A hundred and eighty four years.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22605592

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Vehicle owners who are upside down on their auto loans owe more than ever before. The average amount owed on upside-down loans climbed to a record high of $6,255 in Q2 2024, compared to $4,487 in Q2 2022.

EV owners with negative equity owe more money on their car loans than owners of ICE vehicles. The average amount owed on all EVs traded in for a new vehicle purchase with negative equity climbed to $10,326 in Q2 2024

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A pediatric doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-3-car-crash-rittenhouse-philadelphia/3915690/

The original post on the Philadelphia subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/1e5wkv0/insane_accident_on_18th_and_spruce/

Chapter 19 of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 edition of Mandate for Leadership (Direct PDF link) is full of policies that would be terrible for the US.

Highlights:

• Replace national transportation infrastructure projects with a flat transportation subsidy formula to each state (most of whose DoTs don't know how to do anything with money other than build highways)
• Stop funding mass transit, give public funds to Rideshare companies like Uber/lyft instead.
• Preserve single family home zoning at all costs. Each state and city knows what is best for their people, better than the federal government, except when states and cities do something that conservatives don't like.
• Screw California in particular.
• Trying to reduce the number of traffic fatalities is bad if anyone dare suggests that we have to drive a little bit slower.

Hey guys, this is one of my favorite communities, we should draw something in the canvas!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25030964

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Wanna know how the numbers change for "Other Humans" when deaths due to car collisions are included? It gets 1.35 million added to it, and those were 2016 numbers.

Automobile drivers are by far the most deadly animal, blowing mosquitoes completely out of the water!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17528988

Guided bus

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17446339

Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years

Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a speed of 141 mph (227 kph).

An instant later, he slammed into the car in the photo. The driver, Shalorna Warner, was not seriously injured but her 8-month-old son and her sister were killed instantly, authorities said. Evidence showed Anderson never braked. 

Anderson, 38, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in prison for the May 31 crash in northern England that killed little Zackary Blades and Karlene Warner. Anderson pleaded guilty last week in Durham Crown Court to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.