Why the World Needs The War on Cars
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this pilot episode, we discuss why the world needs a War on Cars and ask if tech — specifically tech companies — can save our cities from the car. Are e-scooters, Lyft buses and self-driving Ubers running through Elon Musk's tunnels the wave of the future or are they a harbinger of dystopia?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so here's a question. |
| 0:02.0 | Why do we need a war on cars? |
| 0:04.7 | And I guess more specifically, why do we need a podcast |
| 0:08.4 | about a war on cars? |
| 0:10.1 | Okay, I'll tell you, because I have to get this stuff off my chest somehow, like what happened to me on the way here. |
| 0:17.0 | I was riding a city bike over here. |
| 0:19.0 | It was a lovely morning, going through an intersection intersection there was a little traffic because of a |
| 0:25.1 | truck that was stopped there was a four-way stop sign all these cars were just blowing |
| 0:29.5 | through the stop sign I waited and waited and finally I was like I'm just taking my turn. I went to go |
| 0:34.4 | through the intersection and another car comes blowing through at me an SUV with Jersey plates and this woman |
| 0:41.1 | driving it and I said you know stop like you have a stop sign and she's like get your |
| 0:47.3 | fucking self out of the street you shouldn't even be in the fucking street and it was like why do I have to live like this? That's why I like I got to talk about this shit. |
| 0:58.9 | That woman probably like she's like the president of her PTA she's like you know her husband |
| 1:04.1 | coaches little league or whatever she has to talk about this shit yeah |
| 1:07.5 | absolutely she gets my therapy for that shit |
| 1:14.1 | all right so let's do this. This is the war on cars. |
| 1:16.4 | This is a podcast about, what do we think this podcast is about? |
| 1:20.1 | I think it's about cities actually. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, it's about the way that cars are killing us, |
| 1:25.0 | and it's about the destruction of the social fabric. |
| 1:29.0 | I think for me it's just about getting the cars off of my street. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm a nimbi, but for cars. I think it's about shining a light on this |
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