@Fried_out_KombiM to Fuck CarsEnglish • 1 year ago[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?imagemessage-square524arrow-up12.24Karrow-down1156
arrow-up12.08Karrow-down1image[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?@Fried_out_KombiM to Fuck CarsEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square524
minus-square@dangblinguslinkEnglish15•1 year agoBecause North Americans were tricked by the oil and car companies in the 50s to think that car ownership was part of being human, and now we’re addicted to sitting in traffic, breathing fumes, and killing pedestrians in the name of muh freedom.
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Because North Americans were tricked by the oil and car companies in the 50s to think that car ownership was part of being human, and now we’re addicted to sitting in traffic, breathing fumes, and killing pedestrians in the name of muh freedom.
Not only that, but it was American to own a car.