TheWarOnCars

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

"Studies have shown that a mere 10% shift from car drivers to bike riders has resulted in a 40% reduction in traffic congestion. Even if you never touch an e-bike, you would benefit from supporting their increased use."

https://electrek.co/2023/08/22/electric-bike-craze-future-of-transportation/

TheWarOnCars, 3 months ago to random

"We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

TheWarOnCars, 4 months ago to london

"When you drive a massive SUV you’re saying three things: I don’t care about the environment. I don’t care that I’m more likely to kill pedestrians in my car. I don’t care that there isn’t room for my car and others to co-habit smoothly on London’s streets."

#thewaroncars #suvs #london #driving

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/london-suvs-cars-pollution-climate-change-b1127839.html

TheWarOnCars, 3 months ago to cars

Anne Hidalgo: "Cars Will Not Return To the Eiffel Tower" after the Olympic Games.

"The Trocadéro will be greened and the Pont d'Iéna pedestrianized, up to the Champ de Mars, which will be reforested. The whole thing will form a large park in the heart of Paris."

#Paris #olympics #cars #cities

https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/paris-anne-hidalgo-promet-que-les-voitures-ne-reviendront-pas-devant-la-tour-eiffel-apres-les-jo_AN-202402050864.html

TheWarOnCars, 10 months ago to random

"...the city of Paris has made enormous investments in public transit, built hundreds of miles of bike paths, and closed many streets to cars. Car trips within the city dropped by almost sixty per cent between 2001 and 2018, car crashes dropped by thirty per cent, and pollution has improved. The city is quieter and calmer; test scores go up as the air around schools cleans up."

#TheWarOnCars #Paris #climatechange

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower

TheWarOnCars, 5 months ago to random

"This year, the average weight of a new car in the US was more than 4,300lb (2,000kg) – a full 1,000lb (450kg) more than in 1980."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/16/paris-us-size-cars-europe-emissions-suvs-france

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

Not only did two driverless cars block an ambulance from taking a critically injured person to the hospital before he died, but the victim needed to go to the hospital in the first place after being stuck by the driver of a different car.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/technology/driverless-cars-cruise-san-francisco.html

TheWarOnCars, 16 days ago to Podcast

NEW EPISODE!

"When Driving is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts."

One-third of people in the US can’t drive. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, a low-vision nondriver and activist has written a new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency." We talked with Anna about building a system that works for everyone.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/05/07/125-when-driving-is-not-an-option-with-anna-zivarts/

#thewaroncars #podcast #transportation

TheWarOnCars, 9 months ago to TeslaMotors

"Instead of giving the biggest incentives to the biggest batteries, government policy should focus on electrifying the vast majority of daily trips, which start and end at home and could easily be handled by vehicles with 100 miles of range or less.... That means incentivizing e-bikes, plug-in hybrids, and other small battery electric vehicles, not holding fleet electrification hostage to the 5 percent use cases."

#EV #climate #cars #climatechange #tesla #ebike

https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/tesla-range-complaints-deception-electric-vehicles-battery-size.html

TheWarOnCars, 1 month ago to random

A pretty historic moment in The War on Cars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/briefing/new-york-city-congestion-pricing-baltimore-bridge-collapse.html

TheWarOnCars, 9 months ago to random

"Large SUVs recorded the highest average aggressivity rating at 5.46 deaths or serious injuries per 100 crashes, followed by vans (5.09) and utes (4.80), while a light car is 2.76. A Toyota HiLux – the most sold vehicle in Australia last year – had a rating of 5.71, making it almost twice as dangerous to other people than 2012’s top-selling Mazda 3 (3.10)."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/bigger-dirtier-more-dangerous-how-auto-besity-is-a-health-risk-for-everyone-20230803-p5dtkg.html

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

"If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity."

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

TheWarOnCars, 2 months ago to random

Except for the fact that they require a license from the state to operate, a loan from a major financial institution to purchase, insurance to shield users from the cost of their harms, and can be used to collect and share driver data without their full consent, cars represent freedom, baby!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

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TheWarOnCars, 7 months ago to random

Science and industry were well aware of the dangers of leaded gasoline when it was first introduced in the 1920s. But adding tetraethyl lead to motor fuel made internal combustion engines work better. And that made it possible to turn the automobile into a mass market product. The result was the biggest mass-poisoning in human history. Bestselling author Steven Johnson joins us to mark the 100th anniversary of the invention of leaded gas. Episode 112 is here:
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/10/10/112-unintended-consequences-with-steven-johnson

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to cars

"Cars, once America’s most important industrial commodity, are now, for so many, a vehicle of debt-driven extraction. They are also the setting of the most common interaction between citizens and police—one that plays out on streets and highways more than 20 million times annually, often as a humiliating ritual of domination and submission."

https://newrepublic.com/article/175505/car-culture-funnels-drivers-debt-jail-danger

#cars #transportation #TheWarOnCars

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot,” he said at a 2020 conference. “For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

TheWarOnCars, 7 months ago to random

"In 2021, half of all trips in the United States were less than three miles, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Making those short trips on an e-bike instead of in a car would likely save people money, cut their emissions, and improve their health and happiness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/reasons-to-get-e-bike-emissions-climate-change-benefits/675716/

TheWarOnCars, 7 months ago to random

"John Capp, the director of vehicle safety technology, strategy and regulation at General Motors, stressed that there is not enough data about pedestrian traffic deaths to understand the causes..." https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/traffic-fatalities-car-safety/507-deaf2699-272b-4a3c-ba4f-5404fbe81bb2

TheWarOnCars, 3 months ago to delhi

Hoboken, NJ has gone seven consecutive years without a traffic fatality. They've also seen a significant reduction in injuries, with significant injuries down 62% between 2022 and 2023. This has been achieved largely by lowering speed limits and redesigning streets.

https://www.hobokennj.gov/news/city-of-hoboken-reaches-new-vision-zero-milestone-seven-consecutive-years-without-a-traffic-death

#hoboken #VisionZero #traffic #safety

TheWarOnCars, 5 months ago to random

"It makes everything in my life more convenient, and I absolutely love it. Possibly more importantly, it’s also just downright fun."

https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-an-e-bike-and-its-now-my-entire-personality-1851039791

TheWarOnCars, 10 months ago to random

"It’s not hard to discover why American roads are so deadly, particularly for pedestrians. There are too many cars and trucks that are too heavy and tall, driving too fast on streets that are too wide, with too many points of conflict."

Via @ryanlcooper

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2023-06-28-death-cult-american-car/

TheWarOnCars, 9 months ago to cars

"And if children are the chief concern, consider that Stockholm’s congestion system resulted in children’s acute asthma visits to the doctor falling by 50%. Five years into its program, London – which began in 2003 -- found that congestion zone residents gained nearly 2,000 years of life due to the reduction of fine particulate matter."

#congestionpricing #nj #cars #pollution #climate #climatechange
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2023/07/congestion-pricing-is-coming-stop-the-fearmongering-editorial.html

TheWarOnCars, 11 months ago to random

"After traveling 4,500 miles, I have spent less than $5 on electricity. Five dollars! That’s less than a cost of a mocha latte something at Starbucks. That is astounding."

https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/06/14/electric-bikes-are-the-most-climate-friendly-way-to-travel/

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

New episode!

Back to School on the Bike Bus!

We rode along with bike buses in Barcelona and suburban Montclair, New Jersey, and we talked with organizer Sam Balto in Portland, Oregon, to find out why kids who ride with bike buses get to school feeling happy and energized.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/09/05/111-back-to-school-with-the-bike-bus/

#TheWarOnCars #bikebus #bikes

TheWarOnCars, 8 months ago to random

"A study published in the Journal of Safety Research last year found that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV than those struck by a passenger car."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces