Warum drücken Autofahrer bei Gelb am Ampel stärker aufs Gaspedal, anstatt den Fuß vom Gas zu nehmen?

Mehrmals die letzten Paar Wochen bin ich mit ein Kind beim Fußgängerüberweg-Ampel und müssen warten, bis ein Auto oder LKW vorbei rast, auch wenn für uns die Ampel schon längst Grün für uns gewechselt ist.

I'm actually kind of livid about this, please lift your accelerator foot on amber, not push it down. You could kill someone.

#EntitledDrivers #CarLobby

Paris: Where 66% of 4% of the citizens vote to block cars from 500 streets and make them greener, while 96% of the citizens are confident, that there is no chance for a different result anyway.

Or in other words: The car lobby managed to mobilize about 1.3%.

#paris #CarBan #GreenCity #GreenerStreets #CarLobby

"Journalist #DanielKnowles talks about his new book '#Carmageddon - How #Cars Make Life Worse and What To Do About It.'

"Daniel tells Adrian Goldberg that, '#CarManufacturers are really not much different to the oil industry or big tobacco.' "

https://shows.acast.com/byline-times-podcast/episodes/carmageddon-how-cars-make-life-worse

#transportation #transport #CarDependence #urbanism #UrbanSprawl #environment #AutoIndustry #CarLobby #books

"..for many low-income and minority Americans, #automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of #inequality, immobilizing their owners with #debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots. "

"Once You See the Truth About #Cars, You Can’t Unsee It"

#CarDependence #transport #transportation #CarLobby #AutoIndustry
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