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A new community where people can just vent about or actually do coordinate action against the pest of ultra bright LEDs.

"The Perfect Pedestrian ; or, Making the World Safe for Motocracy."

CW: Carbrain out the wazoo

..And you can imagine the job discrimination as an adult if you don't drive.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52646883

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The first congestion charge scheme for vehicles in the US has come into effect in New York.

Talk from this years C3. Last year Polish hackers found DRM measures in train sets from Newag designed to make repairs next to impossible. This talk details what happened after.

Working at the office today and from all angles cars are reflecting sunlight into my eyes. Just realized that bicycle parking wouldn't be causing this slight inconvenience to me. Fuck cars.

Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed

"Boulder police are investigating the traffic signs as criminal tampering."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22125217

Of course, the real story here is how the elderly (and everyone else) are fucked over by car dependency and its associated suburban sprawl, shit public transport, and unwalkable neighbourhoods.

Climate activists in Scotland have carried out a series of actions against SUV cars, saying they are acting in solidarity with the victims of the Valencia floods.

Spain floods: Horrific details emerge of how Valencia victims died | CNN

Remember when the Hummer H1 was the biggest, most obnoxious passenger vehicle on the road?

Please follow the link to comment in support of a proposed rule to require vehicles in the US to be designed with some pedestrian safety considerations. It will hopefully keep some obviously dangerous designs off of our roads.

the missing word bothers me, too. It also got killed in an intersection on its way to work, to show up in this meme.

Many people claim AI can help us solve climate change, so I decided to ask Google Gemini.

"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"

Many people claim AI can help us solve climate change, so I decided to ask Google Gemini.

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

The donated handmade wooden benches are not ADA compliant so the city is forcing the builder to remove them. So having literally nothing is the alternative. Also the city says the builder can put the benches in their parks, but wouldn’t that also need to be ADA compliant?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19601342

Speed record of a velomobile: 144 km/h www.aerovelo.com/eta-speedbike

An economic perspective of free public transit!

The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many ‘be careful’ street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

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UB: To start with, we tried to argue with our book against a very dynamic treatment dealing with ecological crisis: what we call green capitalism, or the green economy, or ecological modernization of capitalism. Which is: we have a problem with the combustion engine so it should be the electric engine. This will not be sufficient, we know, because the resources have to come from the South and there is still the space problem.

Street view from Google Maps:

And the obligatory Not Just Bikes: https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ

I was a bit pessimistic about this being possible, but to see that we did this in the 1984 Olympics without any light rail is pretty amazing to hear.