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Fun fact: at least one of the mods of this community is a car guy.
One of the many great things about my “daily driver” being a bicycle is that all my cars can be project cars, instead of having to get rid of them to own something boring and reliable instead.
Frankly, I think the overlap between anti-car-dependency urbanists and car enthusiasts is a lot bigger than people give it credit for. It’s the normie commuters who see cars as an appliance and can’t imagine an alternative who are the problem.
That was always my dream if I lived more rurally. Imagine having a garage so big that you could work on several cars all the time!
As it turns out I found more interesting things to build and fix, so my peak “car guy” was like 17 and I never did anything more complex than replace brakes and springs
Eh, car guys are often easier to persuade that public transport and walkability policies are useful.
They would prefer not to have to share the road with normies.Yeah, car guys in my experience consistently think (maybe correctly) that everyone else on the road but them is a total moron. You don’t like those pesky cyclists sharing the road with you? Neither do most of us cyclists; let’s get them on separated paths. Don’t like morons who can’t drive? Make it so they don’t have to. Don’t like traffic? Take the other space-inefficient cars off the road.
I think car people recognize that just positively reinforcing micromobility and public transit can improve their experience.
My brother is a car guy. He’s also an ardent cyclist and is more environmentally conscious than the vast majority of westerners.
Sometimes people are more than just one thing, and if a car spends 99.9% of it’s time in the garage in bits it’s not a major factor in pollution or traffic problems.
how about production?
