I suppose as long as there are still Forza kiddies out there who don't know any better he'll continue to have an audience. I don't like using the word "poser", but that perfectly describes him to a T. His actual understanding of cars is only limited to internet memes. All of his videos are just clickbait garbage catering to children. In a weird way it sort of makes sense the "car guy" who knew the least about cars was self admittedly not interested in them in the first place.
"Top 10" list videos are bottom of the barrel, cheap, easy content with no effort to make. He sticks to the only thing he knows how to do, he doesn't wanting to risk losing that sweet sweet Youtube ad rev.
Street cars are nice and they make sense in cities like San Francisco and are a great replacement to ya olde horse and buggy. But beyond that your limited to where you can go, you can't go that much faster then street traffic And tend to have an uncomfortable ride.
Buses are better then streetcars. But they're not as good as light rail/metros when moving large amounts of people.
Ah, so she’s an urbanist then. That’s literally the exact same argument they make when talking about things like Minneapolis’ Skyway and Toronto’s PATH.
It's very dumb how some of these urbanists don't seem to understand Europe and Japan have pedways infact more then you can shake a stick at. They didn't magically kill their downtowns and in fact allowed opportunities for more business space.
Take your pick on the insufferable personality chart, your average Cyclist (I don't mean people riding bikes but your ™ cyclist* with their helmet and sense of entitlement.
The biggest complainers about things like the Skyway are people that made the streets unsafe to begin with--loiterers, the homeless, and general scum. I mentioned this in a previous post: one of the first results of complaining about the Skyway was from this link (archive).
They hate the one bike that's remotely masculine. Also:
It's not just breaking laws, it's breaking common sense. The mountain biker even said that he is fine with rolling stops for bikes (which is illegal unless the state has Idaho stops on the books), but finds issue with them cycling directly into oncoming traffic, as a sane person would. Of course, the urbanist doesn't have common sense, so he just ignores what the MTB literally spelled out.
This is why I have a old man car with a 3.5L 6 cylinder and a good sized trunk. This old XG350 mocks any bike despite its age with both carry and towing capacity. Yet like true cultists, they MUST do it the hard way
For them biking isn't just a hobby, it's a cult. A genuine cult. Even when you leave, that programming is still burnt in. Gotta bike, take the bus and train, live in the pod. Even when they get a car, they HAVE to rationalize it, as not to fall out with the others. Even if it's a electric Chevy Bolt that makes their city life easier. They cannot deviate, EVER
That literally is the problem. Not just with the /r/fuckcars crowd, but with all these types of people. They're basically broken human beings, or at the very minimum substandard. They shrink back from responsibility, from managing their own lives and shift it to others.
This isn't even the whole thing:
I was on my way home from work just 3 days ago and a cyclist right next to me turned left on a red light.
I was at an intersection waiting to make a left turn when a cyclist decided to pass me on my left side right as I start turning. I stopped before I hit him but I was milliseconds away from a lawsuit or criminal charges because dipshit thinks he's above to rules of the road.
Cyclists would call that a “left hook” and blame it on you. For some reason, cyclists not only think that it’s perfectly ok to undercut a vehicle turning ahead of them, but also that it’s the driver’s fault that they get hit.
