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America's love with cars is founded on fear and selfishness (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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Probably not too unpopular here.

Standing waiting for the bus in my city with decent transit and I have 2 trucks rev their engines loudly past me, another one letting just clouds of pollution, watching people driving who aren't paying attention and several people blowing cutting last second through a light. All in just 3 minutes by a small corner with light traffic.

Made me think how cars are inherently selfish. People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around. In addition to that, some go out of their way to make their cars even worse to people outside of them.

No wonder we can't move away from them. They are a definition of our own culture

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[–] MrJameGumb 1 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I need my car so I can visit my elderly mother who lives 2 hours away and frequently needs me to help her with things. There is no public transit that goes there. I'm sorry if you think that's "selfish" 🙄

[–] FlordaMan 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think they meant the individuals are always selfish, more that the whole culture (and thus the lack of public transport) exists because of selfishness and fear.

Also in countries which are not as reliant on cars most people still have access to a car, they just use it less often.

[–] MrJameGumb 0 points 10 months ago

OP went out of their way to say people selfishly drive cars to avoid other people. Seems like they are specifically targeting individuals as the problem

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