Intersectionality matters, but carbrain can still be a standalone or at least dominant identity for purposes of somebody discussing car infrastructure.

Not Holland, who cares? None of us will ever live in a world without a climate crisis. Yet action matters. Anybody who doesn't want to take any action to reduce the massive harms of the climate crisis, probably has no political ideas worth following. Carbrains are a subset of that thinking.

THREAD. Today is my birthday, and it has been a difficult year for civil rights work. But it was an honor to speak about our work and about my Copaganda book at a women's prison.

The treatment of cars by drivers who identify as left of center, even far left, is a clear example of the relative privilege of most people who have a voice in published media or even in online discourse. Mamdani building a key platform position for people who rely on transit is so refreshing.

any billionaire could buy so much public goodwill by starting a factory to crank out bare bones functional ebikes at cost with their name on the side

The Lightning has some advantages over the gas F150. But fleet truck buyers are too conservative, fiscally, and most truck guys are too conservative, anti-socially, to sell at scales that could be profitable. For normal EV buyers, the Wh/mile is trash. #bancars, and ban trucks first.

traffic calming is great, and the need for it implies the need to reduce driving overall If many American drivers are too impatient or inattentive to maintain a safe speed unless concrete or trees are put in their way, then even at a slower speed how can we trust them to drive safely around kids.

Parents who think they're forming a bond talking to their kids in their car can't imagine the power of this mom

If the US + Canada would only get out of the car-freeways rut, we'd find there's a world of solutions out there to gridlock, congestion, and commuting frustration. Some are contained in North America's past—like the Interurbans that linked cities to suburbs, countryside, and other communities.

The transit riders vs drivers election.

If you are driving and a tailgating driver behind you is so threatening that they cause you to speed up, call the cops.

Great video tying the American economy to the late stage Societ economy, where Gorbachev saw that his people would be angry if they saw what they were missing. A clear example is the overpriced cars from the Big 3, that would be abandoned if Americans had Chinese high speed rail and cheap EVs.

I hope Mamdani keeps making the viral transit videos

I see where he's coming from, and drivers in general should be more liable. But I'd gently suggest that legislators should be more concerned with dead crash victims than damaged bridges. m.youtube.com/watch?si&v=O...

Americans of a certain social class conflate international tourism with being worldly. Many would learn more from a bus ride across town. In their defense, high rents due to bad zoning and the banality of car infrastructure do make American cities less vibrant and interesting than they ought to be.

My notes on @thewaroncars.bsky.social 's #LifeAfterCars. This isn’t a book review, just a string of thoughts roughly organized by page, so I can look them up later. But go read the book yourself. politicsofcars.beehiiv.com/p/life-after...

Is Cuomo's Dodge Charger in the shop? Really on the nose with the politics of cars here

putting together my notes on #LifeAfterCars, not me but the "politics of cars" mentioned

yeah listening to phones without earbuds in public is antisocial behavior, but at least they're not buying a new gas powered car or lawn equipment

Much valid discussion about prioritization of traffic enforcement vs street design. One clarifying question is, given agreement that the design of some roads is unsafe at least absent strict automated enforcement, do you support closing them to drivers? Bollards or cameras, until design improves?

traffic "engineers" in America have a fundamental professional dilemma between following the same habits that kill 40k Americans per year, or abandoning everything their profession has preached for generations and genuinely targeting Vision Zero

Some people are angry at this and sorry, but channel your disappointment about Biden's failure constructively. As an administration-defining legislation IRA isn't remotely in the same league as even the ACA for improving their lives. Stop pretending that the problem was awareness. Fund more transit.

On one hand, lots of people driving for Halloween On the other hand, the excessive number of cars parked on the street is slowing the fire truck with flashing lights to a crawl

parents are going to be so scared of these treats

hot semi-confident take: A speed camera at a speed trap with no signage beyond the speed limit reduces risk more than one speed camera with signage on a road with traffic calming. The former camera penalizes drivers not paying attention in general. The latter merely penalizes drivers who speed most

Got teary eyed reading about the joy of kids riding bikes to school thanks to a bike bus, because drivers in their area otherwise restrict them to margins like sidewalks or cul-de-sacs. My kids and kids I've volunteered with complain that they can't ride anywhere. Children deserve a #lifeaftercars

Brutal story about how drivers keep hitting crossing guards, who in turn are out there trying to keep kids safe in school zones. Note the solidarity between cops and drivers in this article. Two groups with broad legal immunity for committing interpersonal violence.

it took longer to get my signed copy delivered, but it's finally here @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Build cities for people, not for cars. Entire thread is on point. We need so much urban density. For housing. For climate. For all the benefits of urbanism and safer streets. And yes, for electoral politics.

This whole industry is full of it, #bancars. Mazda's plan for reducing co2 emissions is to combine "microalgae" and co2 capture on the vehicle. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...

Sidewalks are not a space to store a car hood or truck bed. Parked vehicles should stay strictly within their parking spot, not in the sidewalk where people are walking or using mobility devices.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social finally heard your great ep with Mayor Hidalgo. Learned that VW's diesel emissions cheating was first detected by the EPA. Reminder to never assume EU car regulations are adequate, and that other car manufacturers aren't good just because they make a "cute" 6,000 lb van.

Corporate climate liability should not be limited to fossil fuel producers. Every new piece of equipment that is built and sold with the expectation of a decade+ of burning fossil fuels is the same kind of a problem as drilling a new well. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

subsidizing EVs for consumers was a weak policy but all of the same industrial policy goals could be achieved by electrifying all (school) buses. Good argument that most transit should be using trolley buses or trams, but batteries work better for school buses due to their routes and schedules.

no word on police taking action against the driver who hit a pedestrian www.caymancompass.com/2025/10/28/n... Vigilantism is no way to run a society. A secondary benefit of cameras issuing fines, and safer car culture generally, is protecting drivers from victims who feel there's no other option.

Car theft should be treated more like gun theft, ie owners of dangerous objects have the burden of preventing other people from taking and misusing their property.

fewer bumper stickers, more decorative transit cards that say "bought it because I knew he was crazy"

autonomous vehicles exist and Waymo at least is probably better already than taxi drivers for most trips, but they'll never drive perfectly because unlike people a hypothetical AGI, or whatever, capable of truly reasoning through scenarios would realize cars are dumb and refuse to drive #bancars

what first annoyed me yesterday about AI was this math solution. Anybody who can visualize the unit vectors rotating and then write them into the columns of a matrix can solve this in one step. I was curious what the phone magic would do. Probably it's correct? But no way for a human to *learn*.

Got mad at Mad Max mode (it literally refers to a failed state!). Wrote a thing about how car culture, Tesla's FSD, everything about how AI is being hyped up, and what we're doing to our education systems are bad in more or less related ways. politicsofcars.beehiiv.com/p/car-cultur...

make a movie food, and get rid of cars: Flan in 60 Seconds

GM is another horrible company. Escalade IQ curb weight's over 9,000lb, has 750hp! Anybody driving it should have special training plus driver assistance. A “hands off, eyes off” system for drivers to "theoretically watch a movie from the driver’s seat" is absurd. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...

Porsche is another horrible car company and the new CEO gets his customers. Whatever the many benefits of electrification including sheer performance, EVs "lacked the emotional thrill of noisy engines" to painfully tell everyone in public how rich the driver is. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...

Troll got blocked so I'm not linking to the thread. But looking at their bio with all of the far left buzz words, I think they genuinely believed that arguing for an unlicensed uninsured driver who crashes their car to keep driving is the obvious leftist position.

let's give every pedestrian or bicyclist with pictures or video showing reckless driving the power to have a car impounded @obcycler.bsky.social

Most American/ #Atlanta 36 seconds of news I've ever seen: -Drivers 1 and 2 have road rage, collision, pull over -Pull out guns and start shooting on side of highway, drive 1 falls into road -Driver 3 hits driver 1 and flees -Cop hits driver 1 youtu.be/Bw3Im8R8VNY

Common: People who think GUNS are as safe and should be as easy to buy as microwaves are why ~40k Americans die each year. Niche: People who think CARS are as safe and should be as easy to buy as microwaves are why ~40k Americans die each year.

#Urbanism 's opposite, voluntary internal exile: it is good for society to have remote car dependent places for antisocial far right people to be away from each other, but very very far away from everyone else. Society shouldn't subsidize or glamorize that lifestyle. Just ignore them.

Highway work zone thought - one sign that speeders don't believe or don't care about their own line that speeding is safe if everyone does it, is that they're not satisfied going the speed limit behind somebody who is. Even when the highway lanes are narrow and bordered by concrete barriers.

@equalityalec.bsky.social what in the world, driver got the ticket and the news made a video segment about it youtu.be/zJP8rt3CwmQ