#car brain

[thefairytaler]

Trying to explain to my employer that 4 miles may be 10 minutes by car but is an hour or more by bus truly makes me realize that carbrains have no idea how bus travel works.

[left-hand-of-dorkness]

its wild how car melts your brain. like no you’re not allowed to park on the place where the sidewalk and crosswalk meet??? that one tiny six foot chunk of street is reserved for me a human to walk across! even if it means you can’t park your car close to where you want to go! no, you shouldn’t stomp on the gas at the precise milisecond you think a pedestrian has cleared your bumper in the crosswalk. no that stretch of pavement that’s clearly marked as a bus stop isn’t for you! it’s for the fucking bus which is why it says bus!

[allhell-brakeloose]

Stolen from bluesky

[infamousbrad]

[flobin]

Car brain, also sometimes known as motornormativity or windshield bias, is the result of a power imbalance between drivers and participants in traffic not using motorized vehicles. It has been said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Car brain, as authoritarianism then reasserts itself in other contexts, such as we have recently seen in the illegal abduction of the Venezuelan president Maduro. In this essay, I will

[fae-vertee]

[krankynerd]

A bus stop near my grandparents small German town was just removed. So now I have one less not car way to get there. The route only went each way once a week but there were more Busses that stopped there for other routes even daily ones, but nope the entire stop is gone and all those routes and people serviced are just poof.

[evvywevvy]

sometimes I feel like the only person who follows the speed limit, but then I check my rearview mirror and it warms my heart to see so many other people following it too