This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
This is a repost of my post from r/fuckcars
Horns: loud, disruptive, rude, wake up bby, hey quiet down people are trying to read
Bell's: polite, delicate, ring ring, refined, happen, excuse me please I am passing through thank you
Bikes can have horns though. Honk Honk
Came in here to say I had a friend who took one of those old ass horns that goes "AAAAAYUUUUUGAAH!" on a bicycle when we were in high school. Was the funniest shit ever. Mostly because he had a whole car battery and some other stuff to make the horn work since he took it out of some old piece of junk on his dad's property (owned a metal fab shop and had tons of scrap and parts all around). Made it seem like it was a powered bike but it was just for a horn.
Drivers are supposed to use horns for emergency signalling such as imminent collision. I always thought it was a failing not to include a bell or something for non-emergency signalling.
There is the problem of escalation, where people might simply ignore the bell, but its availability as an alternative to horn would clarify horn use is an expression of aggression, and willful contribution to noise pollution.
That said, I still think autonomous cars can't come too soon, even if we should be looking to vastly reduce car traffic with public transit and urban archipelagos.
Car horns should come with a time limit: you can only use it so much per day. Then people might actually use them correctly. It’s not a rage button. It’s a safety device.
Outside of major US cities, americans mostly don't seem to use them. I mostly use them when I see someone blowing through a red light or a stop sign to alert other drivers there's a dangerous asshole coming through. But I'm usually the only one I've ever seen doing that.