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It's not rocket science why kids like these parks; they get to pretend to be their parents in a kid sized town.

I did not grow up with a safety town as a kid, sadly, it looks fun. But like with the car carpets (which also probably originated as satire but retards took it seriously), it really is what they talk about wanting in a city.
  • No parking lots
  • No street parking
  • Wide sidewalks
  • Everything's sitting compactly in city blocks, walk anywhere
  • Children playing in the street with no cars, just like Daddy Jason said there used to be
  • There's a railroad too
 
I mean there's nothing wrong with it, but bugmen would be screeching (yes, the same bugmen that don't like big modern trucks) about MURDER ON THE ROAD and organizing class-action lawsuits against GM.
I've never seen them fully internalise that half the reason MURDEROUS, KILLER TRUCKS are so big today is due to the high safety standards in part due to their constant screeching about traffic deaths. Must be a hell of a cognitive dissonance, that.
 
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I agree with this. American cars should be smaller.
American domestic market cars are largely the same as European domestic market cars. The whole size comparison is blown out of proportions because there are a few oddball tiny cars in Europe from that aren't/weren't sold in the US. The 330i you'll find in Germany is the same 330i in the US bar some software and minor hardware differences. Dimensions wise, it's the same car.
 
Are they usually the kind of people who were told "everyone is a special snowflake" and got "participation trophies" as little kids?
Possibly. I dislike gloryfing stupidity. But I wouldn't want to pressure my child also to get a medal or else is no good.
In general those redditors were either ignored or too much pampered.

Slight powerlevel, but in my childhood parents were looking for first places in math constest. Because I had a cousing that was really good at maths.
While I did pretty good in those years, it stressed me out and I had less free time. Fortunately, parents changed their view once I got in highschool.
 
Are they usually the kind of people who were told "everyone is a special snowflake" and got "participation trophies" as little kids?
Yep and calling them that touches a nerve:
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We must make it impossible for people to drive because I, unlike those paranoid boomers, am afraid of cars:
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Don't you dare criticize our precious schools!:
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We must make it impossible for people to drive because I, unlike those paranoid boomers, am afraid of cars:

The schizophrenic "baby boomers made the roads unsafe" crops up here. It's been discussed before here, but if your parents "went off on their own" as a kid a lot, they probably grew up in a rural area (which describes some of my dad's early life). My mom, meanwhile, was in a more urban area, and had her junior school and high school located about a mile or two away on a nine-lane "stroad" (which it was even in the late 1950s).
 
Tech company employees and owners really like this system of belief because they live like this already/enjoy having easy access to low mobility workers.

Google/Facebook/etc. are already trying to build “walkable” company towns, and this is just a means of creating support for that.

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I’m sure there are other parties involved like the WEF and their 15 minute cities, but in summary it’s because a lot of money is behind promoting this to people.
You  WILL live in the corporate pod city
You WILL give your employer your biometrics
You  WILL use the Amazon ScripCoin (tm)
You  WILL own nothing
You WILL like it
 
More anti flying cars than normal cars.
They dislike risk and new inventions.
In all honesty, that's one of the few things they're probably right about. We basically already do in the form of helicopters, and they require a huge amount to park, they have to be extremely safe to not take out a building, they cost an arm and a leg to operate and maintain. Hell, think of how air traffic control would work if there were 1000 flying cars in the air. The only possible way it would work would be if everyone was on predesignated grid paths, like you see in something like I, Robot. And there's the simple fact that it takes a lot more fuel to fly something than it does to convey it along a paved road.

Granted, I still think they're averse to flying cars for the reasons you mentioned. They don't want flying cars because the libshit's ideal end goal is to be a serf that owns nothing and is happy and the idea of driving a car that flies is scary warry, I don't want flying cars because I know exactly what happens as soon as you put Dayquan behind the wheel of a Nissan Altima that flies now. We are not the same.
 
In all honesty, that's one of the few things they're probably right about. We basically already do in the form of helicopters, and they require a huge amount to park, they have to be extremely safe to not take out a building, they cost an arm and a leg to operate and maintain. Hell, think of how air traffic control would work if there were 1000 flying cars in the air. The only possible way it would work would be if everyone was on predesignated grid paths, like you see in something like I, Robot. And there's the simple fact that it takes a lot more fuel to fly something than it does to convey it along a paved road.

Granted, I still think they're averse to flying cars for the reasons you mentioned. They don't want flying cars because the libshit's ideal end goal is to be a serf that owns nothing and is happy and the idea of driving a car that flies is scary warry, I don't want flying cars because I know exactly what happens as soon as you put Dayquan behind the wheel of a Nissan Altima that flies now. We are not the same.
There's a number of issues with flying cars. The first of which is imagine how bad a driver is in 2D, now imagine them in 3D. Helicopters are one of the most difficult 'light' aircraft to fly since they're inherently unstable, small airplanes tend to be much easier to fly.

There are a number of companies working on scaled up drones, multi-rotor computer controlled vehicles which are easy to fly. Depending on the weight they may not even need a pilot's license, or may be able to get by with a simplified one. They'll still have a ton of problems, they're battery powered, so very short range, no flying in poor weather, without a pilot's license and certification no flying in congested airspace. But they're likely the ones to be the first automatic air taxis. If that ever becomes a thing.

Interestingly, some small aircraft aren't that much worse with fuel than a pickup. You can get a plane that uses 10 gallons per hour at a speed of 145kts. Which gives you about 16MPG in normal people miles.
 
There's a number of issues with flying cars. The first of which is imagine how bad a driver is in 2D, now imagine them in 3D. Helicopters are one of the most difficult 'light' aircraft to fly since they're inherently unstable, small airplanes tend to be much easier to fly.

There are a number of companies working on scaled up drones, multi-rotor computer controlled vehicles which are easy to fly. Depending on the weight they may not even need a pilot's license, or may be able to get by with a simplified one. They'll still have a ton of problems, they're battery powered, so very short range, no flying in poor weather, without a pilot's license and certification no flying in congested airspace. But they're likely the ones to be the first automatic air taxis. If that ever becomes a thing.
I could see drones becoming air taxis, especially in flat areas, though ironically not in cities with all those tall towers. I think it'd be cool at the very least. And they're trying now with delivery services. I think out of all the future tech things, drone taxis are realistic.
Interestingly, some small aircraft aren't that much worse with fuel than a pickup. You can get a plane that uses 10 gallons per hour at a speed of 145kts. Which gives you about 16MPG in normal people miles.
Damn thats solid. Though it should be noted jet fuel is fucking expensive. That 16mpg isn't as good as it looks
 
To summarize, the route for the highway went through a black slum. White philanthropists built the residents a brand new neighborhood and sold them houses for $7750-8950 ($89-102k in 2023 dollars). They also built a brand new apartment building with rents subsided to $16-19/month ($312-371 in 2023 dollars).
And now Hamilton Park is one of the biggest ghettos in Dallas with rampant crime, drug dealing, and it's basically run by a gang. It is incredible how quickly People of Melanin can shit up a place. 50 years later, the neighborhood is probably worse than the slums that everyone moved there from in the first place.
There's a number of issues with flying cars. The first of which is imagine how bad a driver is in 2D, now imagine them in 3D. Helicopters are one of the most difficult 'light' aircraft to fly since they're inherently unstable, small airplanes tend to be much easier to fly.
The amount of human intervention needed to ensure that airplanes don't fly into each other, even with 50,000 feet of space to work with, is ridiculous already. Unless every DoT can afford to hire 3 million ATCs so the flight lanes in Bumfuckville, Iowa can be manned, I don't see flying cars ever being more than a sci-fi trope.
 
/r/fuckcars discusses whether or not bike helmets are necessary again:
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It's more dangerous to drive a car than ride a bike without a helmet:
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There was no answer:
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Bugman complaining that an Amazon delivery driver needed somewhere to pull over to deliver packages:
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Endorsing vandalism:
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/r/fuckcars members share stories of their bikes being stolen:
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/r/fuckcars member goes furniture shopping:
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Car rental company makes a funny ad. /r/fuckcars is mad because it shows that large cars are useful:
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Based Dutchman parks his American truck in an electric car charging spot. /r/fuckcars seethes:
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Based Texan:
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