oh no the unbeatable twitter “trust me bro” move. why has no one ever thought about his input??2?

oh no they called me a communist however shall i cope

Higher speeds do the opposite for congestion than what you’d think. If everyone and their mum wants to drive on the same stretch of highway at 5pm sharp, there’s not enough space - at speed.

Obviously, everyone fits when standing still. The amount of asphalt is immense.

Reducing the speed limit from 120kph to 80 will allow 50% more cars to fit on the same stretch of road, thereby reducing stop and go, and not really impacting your average speed; you’d be stopping and going during rush hour, anyway. But now traffic flows, which is safer and easier to follow.

Why? Because - let’s assume safe driving - every car has two seconds of safety distance to the car in front. Those two seconds remain two seconds, but that means the distances you need are twice as large with 120kph than with 60kph. Your car length doesn’t even really matter, two seconds at 120kph are ~67m. So the road will always transport 1 car every two seconds per lane, no matter the speed.

You can either rage in a congestion, not knowing if farther up someone has caused a crash and completely blocked everything, or drive slower but steadily. The throughput of the road is the same.

Y’all are both stupid. Society creates congestion in car-transportation and on-foot transportation. Mass transportation is just more efficient in certain societal configurations and needs. There will still be trucks and deliveries of all kinds and workers and shit that need to use cars for their jobs to be efficient.

A lot of people could use mass transportation or try to reduce the distance they need to travel, but all of this petty back and forth is fucking stupid and worthless if it remains petty and shallow, and continues to avoid the real topic, which is not cars, which are just tools that allow an individual a range of autonomy that is faster and further in certain societal configurations.

So, the issue should be societal configurations (and human values), not cars.

Using cars is such an unproductive wedge issue that just irritates everybody who can see the bigger issues. It’s noble, but amounts to basically greenwash trolling to anybody outside of your community (fuckcars). It’s a hyperfixation on a ultra specific, single-solution to an ultra broad collection of societal efficiency and random other related topics that feels like some of you are just misplacing personal childhood trauma, and really need therapy, or you just enjoy being irritating, thus my belief that some of this really is just greentrolling, which, if you really wanted to fix stuff, there are better ways of doing it.

To be absolutely transparent, I don’t entirely dislike y’all’s existence, in fact, I quite appreciate it in many ways. But, everytime I see one of your posts or memes, I just kinda… Tsk. And it irritates me a little bit, I can’t upvote it, and I think I’ve finally been able to put that irritation into words, and feel compelled to voice my opinion.

So, opinion voiced, carry on /rant