Paying child support to drunk drving victims (youtu.be)
New law in Texas will make drunk drivers who murdered parent or guardian to pay child support until the child is 18 years old.
I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)
listen to patrick (lemmy.world)
Is this the year California OKs speed cameras? (www.latimes.com)
hoping this catches on, pretty please CA…...
Chicago Sues Kia And Hyundai After Over 7,000 Cars Stolen Last Year (blockclubchicago.org)
Reactionaries have used rising car thefts to justify ineffective tough on crime policies despite widespread knowledge that the increases are largely a result of negligence from Kia and Hyundai and the inability to hold corporations accountable.
America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? (www.vox.com)
Europe’s politicians are dEsPeRaTe to tackle e-scooters, why aren’t they bothered by monster SUVs? (www.transportenvironment.org)
French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris (www.forbes.com)
Pedestrians, already dying at record levels, now face Elon Musk’s Cybertruck (www.nbcnews.com)
I hate horns, so I made this (lemmy.emphisia.nl)
This is a repost of my post from r/fuckcars
fuck les bagnoles (mobiliteactive.org)
An image that speaks for itself....
How to improve a street in one easy step… (lemmy.ml)
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Was cyberpunk 2077 ruined by carbrain?
The phantom liberty expansion is out now, and something to note is just how many roads and cars are in the game considering… well… how are they still burning fossil fuels in 2077?...
Tools for collecting traffic data on my street?
I’m working with my neighbors to petition the city to add traffic calming measures (e.g. speed bumps, one way roads) to my street. I’m also hoping to turn it into a bit of a research project. Does anyone know of any tools to monitor or even automate data collection of the speeds of cars, number of cars going by, how many...
EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds (www.bloomberg.com)
From an urban planning perspective, what's the worst designed aspect of your city?
Personally it’s crossing the freeway where I live. My city has about 100,000 people but only six roads cross the freeway, with three more wayyy on the outskirts that are basically detours. There are also only a few pedestrian bridges that cross it, and zero pedestrian tunnels. The way our freeway works is it goes around...
Anyone else car-free?
I'm coming up on about 6 months of car-free life in Seattle. It's certainly been challenging at times, and it's only possible at all because I work from home, but I'm making it work. I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do the same thing. There are a ton of anti-car communities online, but very few people seem to actually go...
How bike lanes sidelined cyclists: unearthing 190 miles of 1930s cycle lanes (www.globalcyclingnetwork.com)
Higher point of impact makes SUV crashes more dangerous for cyclists (www.iihs.org)
Ground-impact injuries — a frequent cause of head injuries — were more than twice as common in SUV crashes than those involving cars, the study showed. The findings follow earlier IIHS research that showed SUVs are more lethal than cars to pedestrians despite design changes that have made them less dangerous to other...
Are Cars Making Us Lonely?
Do ya’ll ever wonder if single family zoning, and car-centric urban planning, are some of the primary factors behind modern adults suffering from rampant loneliness? Two environments renown for fostering friendships and social activities are university campuses, and seasonal jobs in remote locations. What do those two things...
The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January (www.engadget.com)
Tesla Cybertruck: A Tragedy On Four Wheels [Adam Something] (www.youtube.com)
Piped link / Invidious link...
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.com)
Amsterdam to give car traffic less priority as streets and sidewalks fill up (nltimes.nl)
Some interesting points:...
Flying into a car dependent city be like (lemmy.ml)
“Welcome to Town, USA! Please stay seated till the aircraft has parked at the gate, the temperature outside is 69 Freedom Degrees, the local time is 6:19 PM so good luck leaving the airport with any amount of haste and no there isn’t an air-rail link, we thank you for flying with us, enjoy spending almost as much time in...
