I should say, in the spirit of full disclosure, that I’m entirely on Knowles’s side. Unlike him, I do own a car, but reluctantly and resentfully. I get fired up listening to the “War on Cars” podcast, and I frequent Reddit forums where people complain about car culture and its excesses. My appetite for the arguments “Carmageddon” makes, and the types of information it presents, is high.
The challenge now, for transit as for so many other issues, is not to identify the best policies but to figure out how they might be implemented on the rough terrain of politics.
The near-total absence of these considerations from “Carmageddon” — its elision of political problems in favor of technical fixes — makes the book feel, like so many of its genre-mates, disconnected from the very problems to which it draws our attention. I can imagine Knowles convincing some readers that yes, something must be done.
Daniel Knowles 'Carmageddon'😏 is cancelcarsculture - great bullshit
The bigger problem is Woke totalitarianism disguised as well-intentioned environmentalism.
Cars represent freedom, democrats hate freedom therefore democrats hate cars. It’s just logic
Choosing not to live in walking distance from public transportation and local shopping and entertainment forced the use of cars. The answer lies in cities and high density living/working pods connected by trains
US could go to zero emissions today and unless the rest of the world matched our current emission controls global warming would not change. China, Russia, Ukraine and Iran are getting ready to start WWIII. Good luck.
Who drives the car
When does the WP give up its own use of cars to gather and distribute the news?
FREEDOM!!!!! And the left hates that.
Pure drivel. Cars have transformed human life like no other invention. People can come and go freely. To replace it with public transportation would expose people to terrible Criminal activity. Nothing else is as responsible for the explosion of a modern prosperity.
Get fukt
Mine comes with heated/cooled massaging leather buckets, an aluminum six bolt main V6 with 325 hp, panoramic moonroof, Bose surround sound, adjustable sport suspension, AWD, factory 20 inch rims, and is faster than a 70 Chevelle SS 396. don’t care if it’s destroying the planet.
The left really wants you to be miserable: own nothing, travel nowhere, eat bugs, be cold, in the dark.
It bears repeatin.
Is my car trans now too? Is it IDing as a hybrid? Did someone dead name a Pontiac?
Car culture is fine. Focus on developing a city center with park and rides and leave everyone else alone
I can't imagine being a perpetually pissed off, self-loathing Dem Republicans love America, love being American, & refuse to apologize for our freedom & opportunity If you want to be a miserable democrat obsessed w/destroying your political opponent, go live elsewhere 🇺🇸
Anti-car propaganda pushed by state controlled outlets will now escalate
Why don’t we all go back to working remotely and stop this insanity of commuting?
Yet another story trying to make cars illegal.
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If the Dems really cared about 'going green' and reducing gas consumption, they would just legalize 50-60 mpg Kei cars for the American public to purchase as a city commuters instead of saying let's ban all gas cars by 2035 and say stuff like why can't you peons buy a $70k Tesla
Is this stuff being written by WEF A.i. already? Starting to make sense.
Just bought another V8. I love the power and the emissions. Piss off!!!!!
I think the financial future of The Washington Post is even worse than you think. I'm just sayin'.
And yet indispensable to me. So not culture but necessity for this rural PA resident. 2hrs fr NYC and PHL but no way to get to get to bus depot wo a car. Want to go electric at least but that seems to much to handle at this point. To me the cars reflect decisions made
The writer says in the article that cars makes cities worse. How does he think the cities got there? Magic?
Close the borders, please.
Nothing compared to the cancer of woke culture. 🙄
Lets just wall off cities and move progressives there.
Sometimes I just go for a long drive ‘coz I can ☺️
I'd much rather teleport or ride in an automated flying hovercraft but looks like I'm stuck in traffic til then.
time for a magline system
How dare people be able to go where they want. No cars more control I say.
Here they go. Land, protection, personal transport, (stoves they can't turn off if your social credit score is too low) all the shit commies don't want people to own
In other words, because the ability to move freely is a large amount of freedom, real freedom, you want the powers that be to restrict that as well. Trapped in your cities, forced to be dependent on the methods of travel and times you deem acceptable. No thanks. Fuckin’ commies.
What has America been sleeping under a rock?
FuckCarsReddit
Absolutely a banger right here.
I never thought about it
Those of us who have somewhere to go and need to go faster than 20 miles an hour are rather fond of cars, but to each his own
The problems with global climate change culture are 10× worse
Na'ah. Cars are great. More freedom is great. BTW, until you guys address the fact over 50% of our population lives in suburbs is so white kids don't have to go to school with black kids, you're not dealing with the whole issue of cars. (2/X)
I freaking love my car 🚗 ❤️
How dare the peasants just drive around all willy nilly, we must stop this comrade. Let’s fly to Davos in our private jets to concoct a plan
WaPo 'car cult'. Once you step on the pedal, You're hooked!
Having lived in cities like NY in which transit was integral from the get-go, and LA where it is not, transitioning the latter into a less car centric place will be virtually impossible. Too big and not enough connections to all corners to make going carless feasible
One thing a car did that he/she forgot to mention is that a car brought his/her mother to the hospital the day he/she was born. Cars can do good things I love my Dodge RAM, and I hate Teslas
Change is difficult at best, and cars are deeply ingrained into our culture. A tough nut to crack.
There is nothing wrong with the car culture, m0r0ns
No one should have the freedom to transport themselves anywhere!