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He's against bike lanes because he's pro-crime:
Auto theft has become a problem as of late in Ontario from what I heard. However it seems like 90% of the car theft is done using the same method (excluding car jacking). I just wonder if a lot of it can be alleviated by putting your keys in a faraday box and relocating the OBD2 port.

If that fails there's always the old disconnect the fuel relay I suppose.
 
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Turns out suburbs are more walkable than city centers thanks to them separating different modes of transport:
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your man(?) is talking about the centre of the town in question, which is an unusual one because it was entirely planned from scratch, rather than an extension of an existing town
but to be fair, it maintains the same consistent highway design throughout the suburbs, and MK is not known for its traffic problems

by all accounts, the only real problem with MK is that it's a soulless husk of a town, as is typical for planned settlements of the time - it's almost like a cleaner and less brutalist version of an Eastern Bloc era city in eastern Europe
 
your man(?) is talking about the centre of the town in question, which is an unusual one because it was entirely planned from scratch, rather than an extension of an existing town
but to be fair, it maintains the same consistent highway design throughout the suburbs, and MK is not known for its traffic problems

by all accounts, the only real problem with MK is that it's a soulless husk of a town, as is typical for planned settlements of the time - it's almost like a cleaner and less brutalist version of an Eastern Bloc era city in eastern Europe
“Suburb” here means a low density area, not a city that borders a larger city. Milton Keynes is a suburban-style city, but it’s not a suburb of a larger city.

If we used the official definition of suburb, places that urbanists hate like Houston and Phoenix would not qualify while high density cities like Cambridge, MA would.
 
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Every single one of these soy repositories aspire to be a woman... in charge of YOUR HOA.
 
“Suburb” here means a low density area, not a city that borders a larger city. Milton Keynes is a suburban-style city, but it’s not a suburb of a larger city.

If we used the official definition of suburb, places that urbanists hate like Houston and Phoenix would not qualify while high density cities like Cambridge, MA would.
To add, this flimsy definition is how Marohn could peddle bullshit about the suburbs.
 
If kids shouldn't be on the tracks then they shouldn't be walking in front of moving cars either. Urbanists need to pick a consistent standard for personal responsibility.
It’d be fun to create an anti-mass transit theoretical advertising “Feed the BLACKS to the TRACKS” calling attention to how they’re inordinately amongst those eaten by trains.
 
/r/fuckcars doesn't just hate big trucks, they also hate small trucks:
The truck in the picture is a Ford Ranger Raptor, not an F-150.
At this point it's more about le pickup trucks more than their actual size. Something tells me this European just wanted to get in on the fuckcars bandwagon but since there aren't as many light duty trucks they snapped a picture with the first pickup truck they saw.

I feel sad knowing the kid must be thinking "Sweet my dad wants to take my picture in front of this cool truck" and not "my dad is a faggot who's going to share this photo of me with other faggots online to circlejerk"

Also them showing the size difference is a non sensical argument. What is it suppose to show? That some objects are bigger than others?
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If kids shouldn't be on the tracks then they shouldn't be walking in front of moving cars either. Urbanists need to pick a consistent standard for personal responsibility.
They never answer the question why is their kid darting out in front of traffic to begin with. Clearly at some point your kid is going to exposed to some sort of danger in life you can't insolate them from.
 
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Auto theft has become a problem as of late in Ontario from what I heard. However it seems like 90% of the car theft is done using the same method (excluding car jacking). I just wonder if a lot of it can be alleviated by putting your keys in a faraday box and relocating the OBD2 port.

If that fails there's always the old disconnect the fuel relay I suppose.
yeah, it really is interesting how everyone ignores obd ports when it comes to vehicle thefts. you never see it mentioned anywhere. would having an old vehicle with obd1 or obd1.5 be good protection for those systems given that the thieves would be less likely to have equipment for such an old vehicle?
 
yeah, it really is interesting how everyone ignores obd ports when it comes to vehicle thefts. you never see it mentioned anywhere. would having an old vehicle with obd1 or obd1.5 be good protection for those systems given that the thieves would be less likely to have equipment for such an old vehicle?
I think it depends. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the main vulnerability of the port is the nature of what it's used for. Basically the thieves are essentially using the computer the dealer would use in case someone lost their key so they can program a new key. It's less of a bug/exploit and more so like abusing the "forgot password" function on a website.

I've seen a couple news reports mention it seldomly, but not as much as the news telling people to use a steering wheel lock :stress:. Ultimately I think the most effective method would just be to have individual people come up with their own unique ways like installing kill switches in different locations or being creative. The only way to stop this type of theft is to make it so they can't use the exact same method for every one.
 
My car's OBD2 port is under the steering wheel so to access it they'd have to break in anyway...

@pro drivor From the wikipedos: "1996: The OBD-II specification is made mandatory for all passenger cars and petrol-powered light trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating less than 8,500 lb (3,900 kg) in the United States." - So... yeah, I guess that might help, but if you're driving a car with an older standard, I don't think anyone's going to bother trying to steal it in the first place unless it's a classic, the port doesn't matter.
 
yeah, it really is interesting how everyone ignores obd ports when it comes to vehicle thefts. you never see it mentioned anywhere. would having an old vehicle with obd1 or obd1.5 be good protection for those systems given that the thieves would be less likely to have equipment for such an old vehicle?
Old immobilizers from the pre-OBD2 era tend to suck or just not exist at all so the thieves can often just old school hotwire those cars, that security by obscurity approach is more likely to just severely annoy you on the legitimate wrenching end because of how horrible that ancient OBD1 compatible gear is. To prevent OBD2 theft, splice a killswitch into the harness to cut the +12V and data links unless you flip the hidden switch in the engine bay, relocating the port is little more than an annoyance for would be thieves while trying to debug a dead port is much more likely to cause a bail when the alarm's already going off.

If you want real spooky shit, modern cars can often be stolen by tearing out one of the headlights, jacking into the CAN bus wires it uses because those have become very complicated pieces of gear as well, and using that as your entry point for hooking the car up to pirated dealer software to re-key it.
 
They never answer the question why is their kid darting out in front of traffic to begin with. Clearly at some point your kid is going to exposed to some sort of danger in life you can't insolate them from.
to play devils advocate
There is a reason we have school zones and speed bumps. Speed kills more than the cars. If you're driving near sidewalks, in a neighborhood, near a school, etc. you should assume a kid will jump out in the same way you would expect a deer to jump out at twilight on a rural road.
Kids do not make good decisions and make mistakes all the time. Parents also make mistakes. Driver should be aware and drive slow in neighborhoods not because they should be punished, but because you shouldn't lose your kid to someone going 35 in a school zone.
 
to play devils advocate
There is a reason we have school zones and speed bumps. Speed kills more than the cars. If you're driving near sidewalks, in a neighborhood, near a school, etc. you should assume a kid will jump out in the same way you would expect a deer to jump out at twilight on a rural road.
Kids do not make good decisions and make mistakes all the time. Parents also make mistakes. Driver should be aware and drive slow in neighborhoods not because they should be punished, but because you shouldn't lose your kid to someone going 35 in a school zone.

I suspect the problem still existed even before cars.

Like getting trampled by a horse.

Or mauled by a mountain lion that wandered so daringly into your quiet rural community.
 
to play devils advocate
There is a reason we have school zones and speed bumps. Speed kills more than the cars. If you're driving near sidewalks, in a neighborhood, near a school, etc. you should assume a kid will jump out in the same way you would expect a deer to jump out at twilight on a rural road.
Kids do not make good decisions and make mistakes all the time. Parents also make mistakes. Driver should be aware and drive slow in neighborhoods not because they should be punished, but because you shouldn't lose your kid to someone going 35 in a school zone.
This is also a reasonable viewpoint but urbanists don't believe this. They go full retard and charge the traffic engineer who designed the road with "murdering pedestrians" because reasons.
 
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