30 Times The ‘Screw Cars’ Online Group Made Us Feel Like We’re Living In A Dystopia

The future where people can "live and let live"? Yeah sounds dangerous /s

Also a lot harder to crash a train into a skyscraper. Just sayin'.

What an amazing transformation. I wish there was a magic genie that could go throughout the world and make changes like this.

FYI, andrew tates was sentenced for human traffic and others happy things..

Until teleportation is invented, high speed rail should rule.

Apart from that, more green in the city centers has been proven to reduce summer temperatures significantly, thus reducing the effect of heatwaves. There is a reason why more and more european cities experiment with green streets, superblock zones and roof gardens.

And on public transport ppl can play on their phones and not kill anyone

Looks like the Netherlands to me, anyone know where this is?

It's crazy for how long it has been known that adding lanes just doesn't work and yet most city planners/councils seemingly never got the memo.

From pretty much the rest of the globe…we’re sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers… xx

It will cost £414($535) for a return from cardiff to birmingham for 4 people. That's 100 miles(2 hr by car) each way or Allentown to New York round trip. The train is a luxury in the UK

Brilliant idea!

Swiss trains are amazing as well

That is insane.

I wan that green pea!

In Japan you can only buy a car if you have a private parking space

I wonder how many grannys and grandpas have broken their legs trying to get out of those "cars". They look like you need a ladder to get in!

Where... tell me where... 🤯🥺

Elon Musk is a muppet.

I always thought this was done for safety sake so the families knew everyone who was giving their kids candy and it was a controlled environment. Which is also sad.

That’s not why this is done. It’s done for another sad reason and that’s because some people don’t feel that it’s safe to let kids knock on strangers’ doors. Of course we have walkable neighborhoods.

This one isn't accurate. Trunk or treats are just little gatherings hosted by organizations, usually churches (where I live it's churches). They are just an extra little Halloween option you can choose to take part in.

We have that where I live but it's rural hear with long distances between homes. Our local grocery hosts one each year to give the children a taste of Beggars Night.

The vast majority of the US never had walkable communities. It's still not unusual for small town neighbors to be half a mile apart.

No we hit so many different trunk or treat events AND run the streets

Part of the reason for this is safety. In retrospect, small children walking around in the dark, going up to strangers doors wasn't really smart. Trunk or Treat is a much safer alternative.

We have trunk or treat annnd walkable neighborhoods! We even do an interactive zombie gravyard experience at our house that the kids and adults love!

In Louisiana, this was great because the area I'm from, it's very rural, and everyone is far away from each other. So they come together as a community in the Piggly Wiggly lot.

Don't you have sidewalks in the US?

It's supposed to be safer than walking door to door.

We do

Most trunk or treats are from churches wanting to distract from the "satan" vibes or in a very rural area. The suburbs you all try to hate on with stuff like this are actually perfect for trick or treating 🤷‍♂️

Well sure, let's let kids associate car trunks with candy. Nothing could go wrong as a result of that...

This has nothing whatsoever to do with walkability! This is done for children's safety. Find something else to rant about, please.

This post is false. Trunker treat is for safety not because there isn't walking space.

I'm not going to deny that that is why some trunk-or-treat events happen in some places, but in rural areas it's because the houses are so far apart, with long driveways. When I was a kid it took ages to get to the next house, plus no streetlights so we spent the long walks doing silly things with flashlights. Parent bonus, no kid sugar high, we walked it all off. Toward the end of my trick or treating years, we'd ask to be driven to a family members house in town to trick or treat from just to get more candy. As an adult I live in another rural area. While I may be nostalgic about long walks for candy, I think the local Trunk-or-Treat is a great idea.

It was more used for years when trick or treat couldn't happen, like thru COVID. You'd gather just your friends and family you trusted the kids to be around, and setup to replace the lost ability to trick or treat that year. Now that covid is (mostly) over, I haven't seen a trunk or treat again. Maybe for very small kids, like how malls do inside "safe" trick or treats too.

My brothers middle school started doing that because of covid and they also dance and eat snacks on the playground.

Yes. In my city, many, many streets don’t have sidewalks at all, and the sidewalks we do have are cracked and old (the concrete is pushed 6 inches out of place by tree roots in some places, which goes to show just How much our government cares about our sidewalks) and in most places it isn’t safe to cross the streets even at the crosswalks, because the cars are just so unpredictable.

It's not sad - it became a thing during Covid and it stuck. Parents are more easily able to keep an eye on their kids (okay, so a bit paranoid on that), houses that do not want to particpate in Halloween do not have to, people find it easier to decorate their cars rather than their houses, and most importantly, it becomes a community event. We do this at our schools, and get a big turnout of students and teachers and parents, and show movies, and have games, etc.

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Yes, this is real. And pathetic.

Hundreds of people need a place to park, there is room for everyone in a parking lot, it is actually better to have more buildings around a parking lot because it makes it so we don't need as many, if tons of people go to shops all around then we need parking spots, most of the time our parking lots are 90% full so it's obviously necessary

Unfortunately that really is a huge safety problem. In an extra high SUV your viewing angle is so skewed you have virtually no chance to see anything smaller than an adult. Also it makes you drive more in the middle of the road instead of on the side, because you are unable to see the curb otherwise. SUVs are a traffic nightmare.

"exceptional" I don't know. "Special", in a air-quote sense of the word, on the other hand...

bill was already shelved, and it was for people reporting any parking violation. Civil Liberties groups like the ACLU fought against it