#car brain

[infamousbrad]

[allhell-brakeloose]

Stolen from bluesky

[krankynerd]

A bus stop near my grandparents small German town was just removed. So now I have one less not car way to get there. The route only went each way once a week but there were more Busses that stopped there for other routes even daily ones, but nope the entire stop is gone and all those routes and people serviced are just poof.

[robotmechagirl]

Why is it both safer and easier to get in my car and cross the road than it is to walk across it?!?!? What the hell America? 🇺🇸

[bansuvs]

3/4 of drivers think they are "better than average" drivers. Interesting bit of psychology but really dangerous on the roads.

[thelesbianthespianposts]

imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.

[quert-ii]

i feel like what this article deliberately excludes when they say GAS IS $6.48 IN THE NETHERLANDS!!!!!! is the context to WHY gas costs so much in the netherlands (and europe more generally)

the governments of these countries deliberately tax gas bc they're trying to push more ppl away from gas-powered, low capacity vehicles into high capacity or non motorized vehicles. like europe has a MUCH more robust public transit system then the US and it SHOWS in CNN's reporting

idk if the carbrain got to the CNN writer or the network is funded by Big Car but it WAS the first thing to come up for me when i searched "gas prices in europe" sooooo...

[dekaydk]

And this is one of the smaller ones.

In Houston, one road at its widest point has twenty-two lanes. (This includes frontage lanes, which are a standard feature of Texas highways.) After its most recent widening, traffic is now worse than before, spurring calls for a further increase in lanes.

ive never liked the phrase "manmade horrors beyond your comprehension" but i cant think of a better way to describe texas roads

biblically accurate highway

[heatherjohnsen]

This might make me seem uppity but if you drive like you are systemically required if youre an american letting someone in in traffic when you have right of way is not polite its just dangerous. Many driving rules are inane like right on red which is just plain dangerous for pedestrians. Also other ppl in cars. But being predicable is the safest thing if you have to drove. Follow right of way rules ppl and don't die. I dont care that you want to be nice.

[indigo6f00ff]

need to share an experience i had 30 minutes ago

(edit: thanks to @walks-the-ages for providing and reminding me to put alt text, sorry it slips my mind alot lol)

[yhwcomeback]

I know people be hating on this fit, BUT THE RACER VIBES???? Listen.

[taitavva]

body swap

[andmaybegayer]

Self driving cars are created. Any day now!

Car-to-car communications are developed so that cars can negotiate manoeuvres on the road

Someone (let's face it: GM) adds a transaction system so that you can pay someone to get out of your lane if you're in a hurry

Navigation systems are used to implement a stock market trading convenience and speed in real time on the road

People realize that if you cause traffic you can be paid to get out of the way

Grifters form into roving packs that intentionally slow down traffic to extract tolls from cars

As a result, commuters group cars together and pool funds to purchase passage through swarms of grifters at a lower overall cost

Major corridors consisting of large packs moving together become the only viable way to navigate even moderately sized roads and all highways.

Size competition between grifter packs and commuter packs, commuters start scheduling coordinated travel between population centers so that a large enough pack can be formed to outcompete grifters

oops that's a train