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  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • I did, it was a lovely little story about how the kid thought OP was a lot younger than she actually is, I think

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Ah yes, the inevitable "I have no suggestions, but what if your suggestion doesn't work????" scenario begins

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Sure. It's definitely that, and not that most North American cities are designed expressly to force you to drive even if you want a single cup of coffee or a sandwich or something.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Surprisingly carbrained for a community called fuckcars, this place

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • It's primarily an argument to not cut down trees that are already there just so you can build another fucking parking lot or something

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • My point is that this entire situation is a massive systemic failure. You shouldn't have to find yourself in a situation where your car breaking down means you're stuck at the grocery store with no way to get home unless someone deigns to come and get you -- hell, you shouldn't even need to drive to get groceries, any well-designed city would have multiple grocery stores within a few blocks regardless of where you live, and a dense public transit network and/or cycling infrastructure so you can get to the ones that are farther away.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Doesn't an AAA membership cost money and have limits on how often you can use it each year

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Uber exists. They could have easily spun up the app and called for a ride.

    Clearly a single mom with two kids who can't afford the upkeep on her car doesn't have the money to spend on an Uber ride, or she would've done that already.

    The bus network in and around Columbus, Ohio (which is most likely where this happened, based on OOP's location) also doesn't seem to be all that great -- for all you know the nearest bus stop to the grocery store or to their house may well be kilometers away

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • Concrete and dark-colored metal surfaces can absolutely reach those temperatures after a few hours of direct sunlight

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • Dr. Hannah Fry made a short video about this recently -- this kind of heat retention is why London Underground stations are so bloody hot, because the clay tiles lining the underground tunnels have absorbed heat from trains braking day in and day out and are constantly releasing excess heat into the air at the stations

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • ...that is genuinely bad planning, why would they not route the lane through somewhere there aren't trees, like, say next to the trees?

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • "We're gonna pave over the grassy public/dog park for a parking lot, but you can still walk your dogs! Just buy these doggy shoes for when it gets really hot. Problem solved!"

  • I wish more cities were built around the Dutch "autoluw" concept. There are zero downsides, except for auto manufacturers I guess.

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  • A class 1 ebike should help you cover that nicely I think. Your commute might be a little longer, maybe about 40ish minutes if you're going at 32kmph top speed that most of them are limited to, but still!

    a 14 mile drive should not take 2.5 hours by bus.

    That really does sound like something to be raised with the city government. That's terrible, I can cover that in under an hour on my bike at normal commuting speed

  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • The government's purported logic is that emissions standards from 15 years ago were lax and are much tighter now and therefore vehicles of that age are contributing to pollution. On the face of it that makes sense; Delhi's AQI is one of the worst in the world, and emissions standards here were pretty meh until the 2010s.

    In reality it's because the auto industry wants you to buy new cars. That's it. If the government was actually focused on limiting pollution they'd be investing heavily in efficient public transit and walking/biking infrastructure and enforcing things like a congestion tax to push people towards said options, but they're just offloading it on to regular people so they can make a fuckton of money without having to spend any.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • This is the most American response ever.

  • A pair of cops in Assam, India, overturned a fruit seller's cart just because.

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  • It could be, but from available context it doesn't seem that way -- it looks like they just got mad that he was in their way and knocked the cart over

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • I wasn't engaging in Euro vs US anything, actually. It's a foregone conclusion that most of the US is a blighted, car-infested wasteland that was designed by governments and industry as such -- and a lot of people seem to have happily accepted that instead of raising hell to make it so they can go home in a span of 10-20 minutes walk.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • "why do influencers always film in public"

    Those are the obnoxious ones who go out of their way to make their content everyone else's problem. You know the ones -- and yeah, they exist everywhere, and no one likes them.

    But this filming in a car thing is very uniquely American -- you rarely, if ever, see people from other parts of the world doing this, even if they're making the exact same kind of content. The majority of content filmed inside a vehicle by someone not from North America is when being in or around the vehicle is integral to the content being made (like a car review.)

    To stick with this example, food reviewers can and do make their reviews right there in the restaurant -- like I said, it's not exactly difficult to set up your phone or compact camera and talk at a reasonable tone and volume so none of the other people around you are disturbed, aside from the occasional sourpuss who might give you the stinkeye regardless, and still get excellent content. My partner often does this kind of thing and not once have we ever felt the need to sit in her car to do it.

    I don't have the slightest problem with people eating and filming in their cars -- the reason this post is here is because of the way Americans, and uniquely Americans (and Canadians, I guess) have been systemically primed into viewing their massive, cavernous cars as a viable third space to do this sort of thing when the rest of the world doesn't, because there's plenty of space outside to do it -- and even when there is space to do it, they gravitate back to their cars because carbrain.