Hit WITH a car, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the Volkswagen was unoccupied and acted alone.
Even after someone is arrested for *murder* you still report that the vehicle committed the crime.
#WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
Traffic engineers decided that the time of people in motor vehicles is a precious commodity that must be conserved at all costs, while the time of people outside of motor vehicles is infinitely expendable.
And cities let it happen.
#WindshieldBias
Has Rochester or any other city ever ripped out a driving lane due to unspecified and anonymous concerns, or, more to the point, people getting killed on them?
#WindshieldBias
It seems odd to me that no one (AKAIK) has written a theology of the automobile, a study of what the car teaches us about holiness, morality, community, our place in the universe.
The closest is Andre Gorz's essay, a sociology of the automobile.
unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
#WindshieldBias
My version of this is "If buying a car entitles you to free parking, does buying a bedroom set entitle me to a free apartment?"
#WindshieldBias
No one is louder or more profane than a driver caught in the wrong.
#WindshieldBias
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
#CarBlindness
Struck WITH a cab, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and acted alone.
This headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
When your only way of moving through the world is in a car, every other person (vehicle, bike, pedestrian) you encounter is an irritation, impediment, or threat.
#WindshieldBias
Hit WITH a car, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and acted alone.
This headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
Every time someone says we can't reduce highway capacity until we have better transit, we didn't wait until everyone had cars to reduce transit in favor of highway capacity.
#WindshieldBias
DOTs love to characterize any conversion of a highway to an urban street with sidewalks, bike lanes, lower speeds, signalized intersections, etc., as a "downgrade."
Don't let them. This is an *upgrade* by every metric: air quality, noise levels, property values, mobility options.
#WindshieldBias
You may have carbrain if you... [finish the sentence.]
Thinking of compiling the best replies into a blog post, with full credit. So don't reply if you don't want to be quoted outside of Bsky.
#WindshieldBias
Mention vehicular bullying on here and drivers angrily rush to defend their honor. When we're the ones doing the actual dying.
#WindshieldBias
#CarBrain
bikeleague.org/another-year...
This is one of the defining symptoms of carbrain: the inability to conceive of bicycles as a form of transportation and that the people who ride them are going from point A to point B for the same reasons you are in your car.
#WindshieldBias
I will never get over able-bodied people who presumably know they need exercise complaining when they have to park a block away from their destination.
#WindshieldBias
Struck WITH a car, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and acted alone.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
A drama in four acts:
1. Pull up to intersection, signal right turn
2. Watch left for break in traffic, gun it
3. "She came out of nowhere, Officer!"
4. No charges were filed
#CarBlindness
#WindshieldBias
A drama in four acts:
1. Pull up to intersection, signal right turn
2. Watch left for break in traffic, gun it
3. "She came out of nowhere, Officer!"
4. No charges were filed
#CarBlindness
#WindshieldBias
Hit WITH a truck, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and flew into the air all by itself.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
When you're a driver, there's no such thing as negligence.
#WindshieldBias
Hit WITH a car, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and acted alone.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
Hit WITH a car, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the vehicle was unoccupied and acted alone.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
#CarBlindness
Hit WITH a vehicle, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the car was unoccupied and acted alone.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
Hit WITH a vehicle, BY a driver. Unless you are reporting that the cars were unoccupied and acted alone.
Your headline confers instant exoneration. Please check your #WindshieldBias.
#DriverNotCar
