@@Tobi_Jones Literally every American city was designed for public transportation before WW2. Every single one! Los Angeles had the largest and most extensive streetcar system in the world prior to them demolishing it all. American cities were bulldozed and destroyed for cars, and that damage could be reversed with the political will.
I'm sure a conspiracy amongst GM, Firestone, standard oil, Mack trucks, Phillips oil and others to buy up city tram lines and systematically destroy them had nothing to do with it.
Why as a car enthusiast I strongly support investing in public transit: It'll make driving more of an adventure because it's not something one would be forced to do Reducing the running & insurance costs due to keeping the miles down Having a nicer car for a longer time Less carbon emissions Less shitty drivers on the road Less cars being bought that become neglected Most importantly, more room for me to enjoy the drive.
I think this is the reasonable conclusion of any car enthusiast with a brain. The people who yell “war on cars” are the same contrarians always trying to “own the libs”.
money spent on repairing big interstates and shitty city roads now could be diverted to repairing countryside roads, too, where it is a) near impossible to build good public transport by nature of the terrain b) it is VERY fun to drive fast cars.
Nothing screams freedom like needing to pay thousands of dollars to buy a car, pay thousands of dollars for insurance, pay thousands of dollars on gas, pay hundreds for useless road infrastructure taxes, just so you can be stuck in traffic for 2 hours every day and potentially die in a crash.
Where is your freedom when transit workers go on strike? Dependence on mass transit means you depend on someone else to get to work, and sometime they aren't so dependable. Cars take you from point A to point B, with mass transit you need to find some way to go from point A to point B so that mass transit can take you from point B to point C, then you must find some way to go from point C to point D.
"Where do you hang out? Where do you go?" As a kid i really felt this. My parents always told me to "go outside" but I never had anywhere to go. They were so worried about me not being able to make friends but I think the suburban hellscape we lived in really contributed to that.
And it's only made worse by the growing trend of "concerned citizens" calling the police any time they see unsupervised children in public. If you're too young to drive, then you're literally trapped at home.
No kidding. I can count on one hand how many other kids lived in my suburb growing up. My parents always tried getting me to go outside, but my brothers and I never did because the only interesting things to do were Legos and Wii Sports.
If there's a war on cars in America, then the cars are definitely winning. This was a great video. With respect to the freedom part, one of the things I've often said is that living in the Netherlands gives us "the freedom to not to have to drive." I love it. And our kids love it even more, because it means they get their independence.
Exspacially you arn´t forced to buy a car and pump even more money into it for fuel and repairs. And if you can´t afford it you´re screwed... yeah freedom of choice with only on choice! ;)
It’s ironic because the same conservatives who bash this generation for being weak and “snowflakes” are the same that support polices that perpetuate homebody lifestyles for anyone under 16.
I'm pretty sure most dictators do that. It makes sense in a way. If the enemy is weak, why haven't you beaten them yet? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. If the enemy is strong, why are you trying to fight them? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. Worst of both worlds.
@A Fels WTF is your first sentence even supposed to mean? How does the housing market figure into any of this? And how do I have a choice wether or not I want "to live in a working housing market"? The housing market exists independently of me living in a suburb or someplace else. Also the second paragraph. Dear god. Have you maybe considered that developing public transport in the suburbs might be a possibility as well? The fact that suburbs don't need to be car dependent never crossed your mind?
@@generalaccount6531 The funny thing about "wanting everyone to follow a single lifestyle" is that it is an old American thing. The plot of Upton Sinclair's Main Street revolves around that conformity. I remember that old joke that the West has its own "Cultural Revolution" and it's called "Trends"...
@A Fels Quality of life is objectively higher in mixed use neighborhoods. I have six different supermarkets within a ten minute walking distance of where I live and I rarely need to use the car for anything except to go camping or something.
While simultaneously pushing the narrative of "why we need more small businesses to prove the american dream is still real. Please believe us. We really do want there to be economic mobility for people who were born below the elite. We definitely dont want to keep the rich rich and cull the poor."
Freedom means driving 5 miles to buy groceries instead of walking 600 feet because your grocery store needed a giant parking lot. And then you have to walk 600 feet to get through the parking lot.
when i heard adam say "15 minutes by car to the groceries" i was stunned... i thought he meant "15 minutes on foot to the groceries" and i thought sydney was bad... god bless america
@@yukko_parra it’s a 25 minute walk to my closest grocery store. About 20 minutes to the convenience store, which is the closest business to my house. And I live in a suburb mind you, not a rural area. And that’s all next to major roads where people will go upwards of 60 mph if they’re feeling naughty.
i go to the grocery store every other day because i have 3 in ste span of 800m. Depending what direction i'm coming from i can choose one. Coming rom a place where you had to use the car because well, in a small mountain town is how you get around, i can't think why anyone would live in a city AND have to do 15 minutes of car to buy things
And then the grocery store is the size of a football field and takes an hour to get literally everything because it's so spaced out, rather that being a small European grocery store that's a quarter of the size, yet still has everything one would need, and oftentimes at a better quality and cheaper price then their American counterpart
@@davidmhh9977 i mean, we have big shopping malls here in Europe with big ass grocery stores but you go there once in a while and do a big shopping (I don't know if this is proper English) that will last some time. But for everyday things we have normal sized stores that are enough.
I love how prageru animated a parking space being replaced by a nice park, as if they thought "Yeah if we show everyone how our nice gray asphalt parking spaces will be replaced by horrible green parks, they'll be on our side!"
my mom always complain that as I got older, didn't go outside anymore. But the reason for that is the amount of cars parking in my street. Nowadaysy there's a lot of days that is only parked cars at both sides. indeed, they won :( -sorry for bad english-
I love how they replaced a parking lot with a green space sounding like “oh look how horrible this is” All those damn trees taking up space for my personal 2ton machine of glass an steel 😡
You also save money by not having to drive a car. The average cost of owning a car in the US is $5,000 a year. Even in the state with the cheapest cost of car ownership, the average is $3,600 a year. In the US city with the most expensive public transit, the average cost is $1500 per year. If you're able to bike and walk everywhere, you can save even more money.
Right. And if you include depreciation (and you should if you own a car and plan to sell in a few years), that cost of ownership doubles or more. Canadian dollar values with depreciation are estimated between $8,600 and $13,000 a year from compact car to truck. Or $6,800 USD to $10,277... And if you live rural, the wear and tear and cost of maintenance etc can be higher, while if you live urban, the insurance premiums and cost of parking (and parking tickets) add up.
$5000 at an average salary of $20 an hour is roughly 250 hours of work. If you save more than an 40 minutes a day (seven days a week) by owning a car and instead spend said time working it's still a good purchase.
@@SweBeach2023 Every job I've worked has had a set shift/hours you're supposed to work. I don't know many jobs where you can just decide to work an extra hour by virtue of being there earlier.
As a school bus driver, I like the idea of bike lanes. It means I can safely pass a biker without having to drive on the left side of the road. I don't see why people hate them so much.
The reason irrationable people hate bike lanes: 1. There are typically empty sidewalks outside of downtowns, *Why share the road where a cyclist could be ran over or hurt by oversized vehicles?*
@@MainMite06 I dont know how the laws are in America, but in germany we arent even allowed to drive our Bikes on the sidewalk (except for Kids). We have to either use the Road, or the designated Biking lane.
The free market decided that GM, Ford and Chrysler were building crap in the 1970s, so people bought Japanese cars. The American companies would have vanished if the government hadn't stepped in to rescue them.
Also the US "asked" the Japanese companies to have a "voluntary" limit on the amount of cars they sold here, and put a stupid tax on all foreign made trucks so they would never be profitable to sell here, limiting our freedom to choose what we want to buy and having to settle for crap. Not much of a free market.
@@christiantaylor1495 you have the outlook of a 10 year old. There’s more to it than one car making a lot of power. And that didn’t last long anyway. Have you not heard of the oil crisis?
Hey, it's been three months. How's the sacrifice coming along? I'd offer to help, but I don't want to interfere with your culture, but I'd gladly buy a front row seat if you're selling tickets.
Freeways are literally the model used by philosophers and critical theorists to demonstrate how one can appear totally free to move, yet remain totally under control.
@@oligultonn I can attest this. Spent 5-9 years without a car. 5yrs as an adult with a job that's 10-15miles away. Took a skateboard and the bus the whole time. Sometimes a bicycle. Cars are nice and I recently got one just haven't started driving yet. I'm too used to walking around xD
@@dandywaysofliving I suffer from the same problem. I live in Reykjavík, Iceland. Pretty much all the city is within 30 min of walking from my home. Even during winter, it is not hard to walk everywhere because everything is within short reach. Although I do have a car and I use it daily, I prefer to walk and there are walking paths everywhere.
When they say "freedom", that means freedom for the rich, not the poor. That's why they support cars, because rich people can afford them, and poor people can't.
@@dreye3215 Not only that, but with cities spread to accommodate cars, theyre basically a necessity. Literally removing the "upwards mobility" of poor people. I took a predatory loan (24% interest over like 72 months) because, thats all that I could get as a first time car buyer with little credit, without a car I'd have to get a job at a 7/11. I'm also a white male so I know it can be worse for others, such as straight up being denied; not even allowed the "privilege" of going into debt for a necessity. We're so fucked
@Peter Kurten : _Rowe actually is correct about a war on work in America but it's not about work refusers_ Also @Peter Kurten : _We do have a work refuser class in America and they are the core Democrat voter bloc._ You have contradictory and incoherent points. Trying to differentiate between work refusers and a worker refuser "class" is making a distinction without a difference. It would be like saying that elite rich people are not the problem, but the elite rich people "class" is. On another note, your use of language suggests that you are a partisan hate viewer. I will wait for a salient point, but, if you had one, you would have already presented it. Feel free to stay mad and scream into the void. Scream for the algorithm gods.
@@odomobo I agree hehe. The problem comes when someone can't pinpoint any country besides their own. And sometimes even less. Everything becomes the unknown at that point lol
When I hear the words "Cost companies millions" I literally just roll my eyes I dont care they make it back in a day It's such a terrible way to argue.
Even if we ignore environmental aspect, walkable cities are just pleasant. Unless you're a car mechanic, own a gas station or are oil baron, it's just pure ignorance.
In Europe we build bike lanes to move bike trafic from the road to it's own designated lane. That means: 1) bikes come before bike lanes in many places. 2) bike lanes provide more space for car drivers on the road, because the bikes are out of the way. They realy have to do some weird brain gymnastics to think bike lanes restrict people's freedom.
Cant drive on a 8 lane road through the middle of a village with a population of 100 because the bikelane narrowed the road by one lane? Literally 1984
the fact they added bicycles to the list of threats is so funny to me cause cycles (especially e-bikes) are the pinnacle of freedom. you can get to places cars cant even reach and at a moderate speed
@@marcusborderlands6177 I get it you like your Ford F-150 but honestly stfu we are not talking about the country side we are talking about the suburbs and city centre. Cars suck at the job they are supposed to complete
@@marcusborderlands6177 you can ride your bike in the suburbs and rural areas it’s actually quite nice . wish we built more infrastructure for rural and suburban people who wanna bike cuz it’s nice exercise and the peace and quiet is nice .
Eddie Valiant: "Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel!" Judge Doom: "Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it."
Also paying to the government for owning a car even if you barely use it. Car insurance is literally forced. And what does the tax money go to ? A absurdly weaponized military and bombing Syria (Biden still doing this)
As an American, I think it's funny Prager U equates having a car to being just like being explorer. Oh yeah, like I'm going to throw on my raccoon hat and go trekking through the Rocky Mountains like Lewis & Clark! Don't kid yourself, the only place I'm going to explore is the liquor store, but only after I explore my ass to my shitty job at Amazon. You know, that place where I'm told be at a certain time. That thing "Americans have never been good at." The fuck??
@@adityamakwana612 on that I agree! I've actually built a '70 Chevy Camero SS. I just wish there was a more happy medium for people who either don't/can't/shouldn't drive.
"I live a sad life so this argum÷nt is clearly terrible" I can pull up 100 youtube channels dedicated to driving cars through the woods, on mountains, and over trails. Try again
@@thomasdick6797 Where the heck did you interpret that idea? It's called a joke my dude... I know times are tough, but chill. No, my point is Prager U's argument is terrible because this is exactly how a child perceives reality. Not because "Oh, I have to drive 30 minutes to a job that pays above minimum wage and gives me health benefits during a business-breaking pandemic, woe is me!" That's psychotic! Also, driving through the woods with a road, trail, or a map doesn't make you Lewis and Clark- More like Clark Griswold at best. L&C were survivalists and snake-eaters, they were the astronauts of their time. They couldn't just hop into a van and hit the road. There was no road, there were no hotels, no Mcdonald's, They had to make their own maps along the way, most of the time they were starving, sick, or injured, their only tour-guides could barely speak English, if at all, and many of the local tribes wanted to kill them! To say all American's are all "explorers" just like Lewis and Clark just because they bought a car or truck is just stupid and ultimately misleading.
@@Rune3D so when you say explorer it's a joke but when PragerU says explorer you wanna nail them with the definition. The irony. Might as well say "yeah I don't hold myself to any standards 🤷 that would be too hard". The best part is you have some oddly specific requirements to be considered an explorer, last I checked the activity of EXPLORING something makes you an explorer and at no point in Webster do they mention mode of transportation, diet, or where you sleep. Btw you're ignoring the part where I mentioned many of the channels literally just drive through the woods, no roads. Cope again
"Car culture is dying because of government" *Looks at ever widening interstates, systematic defunding of railroads, and the General Motors streetcar conspiracy*
Note: the streetcar thing probably wasn't a simple conspiracy, just the "free" unregulated market destroying the cities th-cam.com/video/fVJeO4sGbGQ/w-d-xo.html some leftie small channel recently made a video on this
When my city installed a lightrail line everyone made a huge deal over it like it was some futuristic thing. Look at photographs from 100 years ago and the central area was all streetcars. Every block of the main city was serviced by a streetcar line.
Car culture is dying cause most good cars are way too expensive, and people need to save that money to somehow find a way to buy a house. Like seriously, unless car is a requirement for someone I don't think any of my friends have even considered it. But we do have a relatively better public transport system in my country.
See, but if the gunberment isn't run by marxist-anarchist-communist-satanists then conservatives would have to admit that they are "losing the culture war" when they have all the advantages. If that's true, they're not the superior underdog, but the stagnant corpse of the old hierarchy.
Literally what the most Conservative party leader in Norway is doing during these elections of ours. Everything she opposes is somehow socialism. Literally everyone who wants the government to be changed are socialists. And I'm pretty sure she'd call certain people inside the current right wing government socialists too
@Herdan Thank you. People often note and complain about someone right wing being "CoMUnIsM" at anything they don't agree with or whatever but then... can't differentiate between ideologies properly themselves so like... bit of a pot calling kettle black situation.
I mean yeah, that is literally all it comes down to. Their entire ideology is just a culture war that turns everything into a big dumb team sport. That's what regressives have always done. They don't even know what they're saying half the time, let alone care. As long as the argument continues and they can draw battle lines to duke it out over something half-true that is ultimately bullshit then they feel successful.
@@MrCmon113 are you trolling? obviously a parks and recreational areas in the comunity are very important. people like you are the reason why there are anti suicide nets in apple factories
@@namanverma1282 Exactly. I live in Japan, where the vast majority of people, at any level in the company, take the train to work. There's a huge middle class, and very few people on the extremes of the wealth gap. One of my clients lived in Thailand for six years, and just today, he was telling me about how in Bangkok, the people saw the train as transport for the poor, and the rich would sit in their cars and take three times as long to get to work because of the traffic.
@@namanverma1282 In more than half of Europe (especially the larger cities and in-between cities it is like that). Sweden, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, etc...
@@CmdrTobs And we all just love to be in a car centric place without any option to change that. Brought to you by the logic: "we started using cars, so we better not stop and try something else that is proven to be better". Though i agree, some places need taxes foranaging infrastructure but also collecting taxes to do something that is objectively good with the money also isn't bad, oh wait, isn't this the point of taxes? To hell having social security, its just redistribution fron the working class to the retirees!! Very sound logic right?
Well, here in Germany our biggest fear unlike the US isn't "communism", but we kinda rant about the same things. With the same stupidity, actually. They get absolutely pissed, when we do anything street related, that doesn't DIRECTLY benefit cars. Like Bicycle Lanes. Or Car Bans in certain streets. Or Speed Limits. Or anything else, really. The "logic" is, that they pay a lot of tax money (for having a car itself, and fuel tax on top), and assume, bicycles don't pay those costs (which indeed, they don't), therefore the City and anything else shall be car focused, and everyone daring enough to ride a bike shall be executed immedietaly. They kinda miss an important point tough; Car infrastructure is so incredibly expansive, that the Car Tax Money ain't enough to cover. Getting Rid of Car Space (like parking lanes), Bicycle Infrastructure and so on are so benefitial for Society, that they actually pay for themselves.
I was on the other side, some of my friends where terribly wounded and lost their families by Scania and atlas. Why should we fight this pointless bloody war ? Why not settle for a truce? And yet the battle rages on, consuming the lives of many great men from both sides.
I know this is a joke but sports cars are safer for cyclists and pedestrians cause they weigh less than other cars,have a much smaller impact zone on person if they hit them than a regular car,and you can spot them more easily
@@davidtism9963 a lambo, ferrari, etc is made out of sharp angles and straight lines, just like a sword or an axe. A volvo is roundy and the safest cars to run into.
@@augustusimperator.avi1872 First pls get some eyes Ferraris have very gentle lines that aren't very angular,and the few lines that are angular on a Ferrari are on the sides or the back Second some sharp angles are a lot less deadly than hundreds of pounds more weight,also since supercars are lower if they hit a pedestrian or cyclist they'll hit somewhere under theirs knees,which while it sounds bad,it is much better than getting in the hips,ribs, pretty much anywhere in the chest
I love how their argument is "cars allow us to go wherever we want", without realizing that , if you have a car, you can only go where the government decided there should be a road.
I wonder how many places are reachable by car vs how many are by subway or train... fucking terrible argument that you clearly didn't think through. Go ahead and ride that train to the beach ⛱
@@thomasdick6797 In places that have half-decent public transport networks getting to somewher e like the beach isn't a problem, is it now? Take Japan, or Singapore, or Hong Kong for example. Heck even in the UK where I live, and that is known for having trains where "30 minutes within time specified" = on time getting to the nearest beach or most places that are kind of out of the way is not that big of a problem at all. Then after that if I have to walk for a few minutes to my final destination or take a bus then so be it. Also you didn't seem to consider that, disregarding the other problems with the current state of car usage, in a country that has been lobbied so hard by car manufacturers / fossil fuel companies (seriously did you even watch the video???), the solution to an insufficient public transport network is to invest more resources into improving it? You're 100% correct that in a country with a terrible transport network, right now the situation is that far more places are accessible by car, but that's not the inherent fault of a public transport network is it?. Look at Europe. Look at places in East Asia. Fuck it, look at China. It's rare that I want to engage someone on TH-cam but damn you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of that discount-store brain of yours lmao. I hope you have a good day and can take a moment to calm yourself the fuck down. I took your bait, but I'm out. Peace.
@@Saltmaster_shio pseudo intellectual that's just regurgitating the talking points of the video👏 and I have the discount store brain. The irony. If you genuinely believe the government will properly manage public transit just look at current government funded programs. Every country you mentioned is the size of one state. I guess the idea of scalability never crossed your mind. Or the fact that Europe is quite homogenous. Cope harder next time because that book you wrote most definitely sounded better in your head.
14:00 "Cars bring us together as a country" Yes, because youtube is filled with "Random Acts of Driver Kindness" videos and not "Road Rage/Instant Karma" compilations...
Terminally American is phrase is when you do something stupid but said it expressing your freedom and if you disagree you are authoritarian or getting too into firing guns.
nah, i agree with the message of the video but the high horse europeanism puts me off. someone tell this guy that if it were not for the americans caring about what happens in the backwater that is europe, then he would have been labouring in a german or russian camp by now. im not american btw
Conservatives: "The free market should do the deciding." Free market: Makes fuel in the US slightly less dirt-cheap. Conservatives: *Start printing stickers how biden is to blame*
"Cars allow us to go wherever we want" This is only true for those who own a car and have a licence and ability to drive it. It excludes children and most teenagers, it excludes disabled people, it excludes the poor, it excludes a lot of elderly. Exactly the people who need a public transport option, because a lot of them would not be able to walk or cycle long distance either.
Wow. The issue of cars really showcases the more general problem with the US uh ? Lobbying and industrial profits at the expense of people and even more so the more vulnerable ones…
What I love about PragerU is how unconvincing their so-called arguments are. That diagram of the car lots changing into parks and bike lanes looked /great/, I would love to live in a city with such nice greenery and public transit!
Yeah, all the poor people in the Netherlands, having to sit in an on-street cafe in the quit, nice smelling, green neighborhoods instead of in a fume-smelling car, jammed on route to a boiling field of asphalt. Poor people.
@@deftknight7418 I dont walk or ride my bike to any major destinations for a few reasons, 1 being that I live far from any major destinations, which is another reason I like cars, and 2 is cars are more time and eneergy effient, for instance, It would take less energy to drive to the store than it would to ride or walk, plus I am in texas, where it is usually hot, so in some cases, especially during the summer, it can be dangerous to ride a bike or walk somewhere due to heat strokes, compared to cars who have air conditioning
@@antonikudlicki1100 Are they actually subsidicing or just not taxin gasoline/diesel? Here in Germany leftist call "not having to pay taxes on something" subsidy. So people are subsidiecied because we only pay 50% taxes, lol
@@keviathan5260 Nope, America spends around 20 Billion dollars subsidizing oil companies, through many modes such a tax breaks and grants. And that's not to mention the amount of government spending on subsidizing road and highway infrastructure, which is huge.
PragerU: "Americans should be freed to follow thier own rational self interest." Americans: **follow thier own rational self interest by turning to other forms of transportation** PragerU: "Not like that though"
PragerU is bad enough to me to ask around if we shouldnt report them. TH-cam does have this option, after all. It costs only seconds and 0 dollars, so i really dont think we should not do it at least on their phobic videos, if not more.
@@grammarnazi3272 Free speech doesn’t mean that everyone else has to listen to you, it just means that the government can’t tell you what not say. TH-cam isn’t the government, so there is no issue.
Even for PragerU, trying to paint fuel efficiency standards as a bad thing is just laughably stupid. "How dare the government make cars better, the outrage! I want a car that gets 2 miles per gallon like god intended!"
I know right! It sounds like it was made by someone to take a piss out of Americans. The fact that they’re being serious here really shows that the jokes Europeans have for Americans aren’t even remotely exaggerated.
@@KasabianFan44 They're not, at all exaggerated. Many Americans are honest about it, but most reich-wingers aren't(because it's their states that contain the most uneducated people, by their own design.....).
They frame anything that benefits society in the most cartoon supervillain way lol just absolutely disgusted by things like "peace" and "cohesive communities" and "plants"
You can go wherever you want, whenever you want to in a car!* *Assuming you have the funds to keep it in good shape *Assuming you have the funds to fuel it *Assuming there isn't traffic *Assuming there is a road going to where you want to go *Assuming you have somewhere to park it in the meantime
@@noxiousvox350 if you want to walk 5 hours a day to do anything then sure you can. And make sure you leave an hour before you need to do anything because that's at least how long it will take you to get anywhere.
As a car enthusiast who loves working on cars and enjoys driving manual transmission, I agree that US cities have the worst planning in the world. Without mass transit, you have to drive everywhere, and everything is so far apart. Actually, it kills the fun of driving a manual when you have no choice but to drive every time. Driving a car should be a treat, an adventure, and something you want to do. When I lived in South Korea, I loved being able to walk 2 minutes down the street from my apartment to buy what I needed, taking the express bus to Seoul, and I loved taking trains! In Korea, the mass transit is amazing, but more and more people are buying cars. It's not killing car culture. People like to have choices. When I went to Seoul I usually took a bus, because I didn't want to worry about parking and drive for 3 hours. When I wanted to drive stick shift in the mountains, then I took my old, slow 97 Kia Sephia. It was fun! Driving to work or the grocery store is not the type of driving I want to do every single day! I want to drive on a scenic route, drive spirited on a curvy road, or go somewhere cool. Cars will always have their place. So, will trains. Now, electric cars, I hate them. They have no stick shift, so they just take the fun out of driving. I just can't drive an automatic or cvt car, sorry! Also, trains are just cooler than Teslas. I appreciate both trains and fun cars. With that said, cars are fun to learn about, work on, and driving should be something special. Taking a train cross country should also be something special and I prefer it over planes. Walking, taking subway/transit, and bus should be the norm every day when going to work. America really needs to get back into mass transit, trains, and redevelop the suburbian spraw. I admit it's nice to live in a quiet suburb, but having a local store nearby would be awesome! Thanks for all the great videos!
Funny thing is that even if I was a car nut more public transportation would still be to my benefit because it would mean less traffic and more comfortable driving
The best part is how apparently you are not at all free when you are walking or cycling, both of which allows you to go anywhere you want, regardless if someone has built a road there or not. A car is the least free of travel options.
Imagine this for suburbia: ebike locally; ride ebike to express public transport line that comes every five minutes. I'm super weary when people bring up the density argument for better PT. Like mate, increasing catchment zones also helps rake in revenue. Diverting excessive new road funds also helps. And who knows this might inspire people to push for greater density around transit stops even harder, because they want to walk in an area where there is more humanity.
I disagree that cars are the least free of travel options. I had a car for about a year before the pandemic in my last year of school, and used it to go everywhere. Sure, it was the most expensive way, but I went EVERYWHERE. It enabled me to wake up an hour later for school, go to the gym every day, go see my friends at the drop of a hat, and go to nearby cities and attractions whenever. Fast forward a year and I went to uni, sold the car, and ended up back at home. Now I'm kinda stuck. It takes me two to three times as long to get anywhere by bus just because of my location, meaning that I've not gone to the gym in months, I've seen my friends once or twice all summer (pandemic aside), and I barely go on those trips anymore. While cars certainly aren't "freedom vehicles" they do offer a large degree of freedom, especially when most things are too far for me to reasonably cycle.
@@metagreen1931 Ok, least free was an exaggeration, but it’s also very much a question of city planning and good public transport. In most cities I’ve lived it hasn’t been difficult at all to get wherever you want by public transport, even if it in some cases can take longer than car. The only reason why cars are often fastest is that we’ve prioritized car infrastructure above everything else. Car is of course great if you live in rural areas where good public transport would be infeasible. There’s also the option of carpools which gives you the freedom to take a car, but also the freedom to leave the car so you’re not bound by it e.g. when out partying.
@@metagreen1931 Because your area or city is probably designed very poorly. I don't use a car 95% of the year. Warsaw is fantastic. With a cheap little monthly pass I can go anywhere with quick enough, reliable public transportation. Trams, buses, subway, an extensively walkable city center (and city, almost everywhere) Many bike lanes. Heck, just yesterday I met a friend I haven't seen for 2 years and we walked for over 2 hours, then stopped by at a local café in a lovely area. In the US, in NYC, I was literally at most 1h away from almost every single point in the city. While bike lanes were... lacking, the low speed of traffic generally made it good enough. I was there this summer, and now, with Covid and almost no tourists, it was frankly quite amazing. Without those crushing crowds, I found a new appreciation for just how remarkably decent the public transportation there is... MTA incompetence notwithstanding. PATH and LIRR aren't half bad, either. A long time car proponent friend caved in and decided to come to our meeting by LIRR and was very positive about it.
@@Olivia-W it is because of my area, yeah. I live somewhat rurally (I'd call it a suburban village - not out of the way but certainly not close to town) meaning that making public transport equivalent to cars is completely infeasible. I'm in Glasgow for uni, and I didn't use my car at all while I was there, that's why I sold it. But that's what cars should be in my mind, an option for people who can't use public transport, due to area or distance from work or whatever. Which largely isn't applicable in well designed cities.
Reminds me of hanging out at the gas station convenience store by the arterial road cuz there was nowhere else to walk to after the general store and taco place went out of business
@@jasondaveries9716 In slowly starting to get how good I have it. I grew up in a small town just outside a big city. From my house it was 2 minutes to a small forrest and stores, parks and other fun stuff was just a few minutes by bike. And to think that I was annoyed that the train to the city only came once every 30 minutes...
When it comes to trains and planes, at least, poor people can't really even use them, too expensive. If I want to take an amtrak like 50-100 miles it's like 100 bucks. I can drive my car 50-100 miles for 10-20 bucks.
As a car enthusiast, the idea that we should be selling more vehicles, particularly trucks and SUVs, is terrifying. Cars should be works of art meant to be enjoyed on weekend trips or evening drives. Even car enthusiasts hate commuter cars, hate traffic, and hate the average driver.
It's always the same with the alt-right : they don't want freedom at large, they want the specific freedoms to do what they, individually, want to do. Anyone else's freedom doesn't matter.
@Admiral Kipper Of course they are : they are so far right they're almost off the map, and the only facts they care about are "alternative facts". And I can say much more absurd things, for example : "president trump".
I mean it's like they don't realize that urban planning is an active choice. In the absence of the post war urban planners who demolished everything, what do they think would have happened? It's not that urban planning is bad, it's that they dislike modern urban planning because it's government meddling making what they dislike, instead of government meddling making what they like...disgusting suburbia Instead of forcing us to be car dependent, these new urban planners are demanding we should be free to choose! Fuckin commies lolol If being dependent on a car to get anywhere fun is freedom, then DON'T sign me up
@Admiral Kipper I guess they are alt-right economists with pretty far right social views about immigrants, minorities, black people, prison, social justice, borders, human rights, dignity, etc. They even have a video about how slavery was fine, I think. So yeah, far right, not alt right.
They really did go for the "nice places bad car good" didn't they Shows that they really don't care about the environment of the city itself, they just want to keep their existing lifestyle going even if it's so dystopian
The parking lot near me turned into Triangle Junction. In fairness, a public park existed well before this change, not to mention that Triangle Junction is partially built over a trench carrying what is currently an active freight line (and a corridor that, with some actual effort that doesn't presently exist to any appreciable degree, could reclaim the passenger service it lost about a century ago).
Yep. If the free market is determined by how we engage with it, and we engage with our money, the those with the most resources have the most control over how it's built. "trust the free market" just means "obey rich people"
It is a complex force of nature. Like a weather system or ocean currents it has core, hard and fast rules but is so vast and has so many inputs and variables that one can ever be certain what exactly will happen.
Neo-cons talk about it like they don’t understand economics. There’s a time and place for everything. Not every important economic activity is profitable, or can be delivered as such, and often the involvement of a neutral third party is required to prevent unfair extractive activity. Also, planning on a community level scale is usually best done by a combination of different levels of government, and the people and businesses impacted, together. Government intervention can also protect small & medium businesses from predatory corporate practices. At the same time, government’s responsibility is to foster an economic environment where it’s possible for people to conduct business without the government or corporate influence acting in an extractive, rent-seeking manner. This obviously requires regulatory oversight, and regulations are fundamental to a functioning free market system. The opposite is extractive, rent-seeking corporates bribing politicians to overlook their activities, and fosters economic stagnation on a local economy level. Further along this scale, command economies (the opposite of free markets) are rife with nepotism and economic stagnation. Conservatives, basically, are the biggest threat to the free market economy they supposedly love.
"When you get behind the wheel, You are in control, You are free" Yeah, Unless if you : *Are drunk *Are Under the required driving age *Are Under the influence of drugs *don't have money for gas *Don't have money for maintenance *Are in probation *Have a D.U.I *Don't have a driver's license *Follow speed limits *Don't have money for a car *Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam *Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam I have a upright comfort bike and it's the best investment of my life. If you're in a bike, You can, Get this; DRIVE ON OPPOSITE WAYS THE CARS DRIVE ON! AND DISOBEY LITERAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS!(As long as you're in the street side) It saved me more money than I can imagine! Get a bike, It gud 10/10
U are also allowed to walk on pedestrian lanes with your bike while smilling smugly at those beta cucks that have to drive 5km more to the nearest U-turn
As a dutch person, I follow this US car drama for comedical reasons Also it's literally impossible zo get in traffic with bikes. Never happened to me anyway
Prohibition never truly ended. This country's Orwellian laws against drunk drivers can be compared to the 13th amendment's exception for inmate labor. You don't choose to be a drunk driver. Drunk driving chooses YOU. It's silly to discriminate against drunk drivers.
more accurately *Are drunk *Are Under the required driving age *Are Under the influence of drugs *don't have money for gas *Don't have money for maintenance *Are in probation *Have a D.U.I *Don't have a driver's license *Follow speed limits *Don't have money for a car *Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam *Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam *have poor vision *are in any condition where movement is severely limited *are paralyzed *don't have limbs (or any 2 of them) *are banned from driving *are incapable of obtaining a car or the money required to get one *have 3 braincells *are highly prone to seizures *are hyperfixated on spoke blur *are of age yet (informally) restricted from obtaining or driving a car
My primary arguement for robust public transit is a personal freedom argument: I don't wanna have to be sober to get around my city. Building cities that require you to drive everywhere is a restriction on my basic freedom to alter my state of mind.
Same.. I like to have the freedom to have a beer after work.. if I have to drive home I can’t do that.. With public transport I can get hammered to the brim and still get home safely.. Now THATS freedom
when they were naming all the “bad” things the city’s were doing like removing parking lots and pouring money into public transit it just sounded like a great time
When I was 5 years old, my parents got a car, because they found out, that it was cheaper to drive the 200 kilometres to my grandmother than taking the train. Yes, it took 30 minutes more, but we could save a lot of money when having 4 in the car. Therefore, we stopped taking the train or bus when going outside our city in favour of the car. However, very quickly another problem came. My mother was the only one, who had a drivers license, so we depended on her, when going anywhere with the car. Unfortunately, she got severe back pain when driving long distances, so we always stopped using the car in several months after driving around in it on a holiday or on a visit to my grandmother. About two years ago, she was diagnosed with stress and we finally decided to move from our large city of 250.000 people to my grandmother's town of 2800. Here, she quickly recovered and could start working again. Everything here was just a 2 km bike ride away, and when we went to work and school we would all take a ferry to a larger city of 75.000 people. We started using our car to go on holidays again, and stopped taking public transit completely. Recently, when having some extra time on my hands, I decided to take the train down to a historic town about half an hour in both car and train, and I realised just how much more relaxing it is to take the train. And how much faster it feels. Normally, when we would drive to the town, it would be half an hour of looking at the fields, but with the train, I got to see the other small communities and people living their life, going home from work, hanging out with other people on the train. I really enjoyed it, just as I enjoyed my ferry trip. Cars does not make a country seem smaller. You just wait for the trip to end, but with trains, buses and ferries, you enjoy the trip, relax and the time fly by.
The lone fact that you do not need to be sitting in a confined space with one of the occupants constantly attentive when on public transit automatically makes them vastly superior to cars; and there are plenty of other good reasons if you're not convinced.
You forgot to mention airplanes, that is also a form of mass transit, unlike trains and city buses, most airplanes are operated by private companies for profit. The personal family airplane or flying car is not a thing yet, so we are still forced to use mass transit for all our air travel, the cost is per passenger however, as is all mass transit, so if you have a family of four, that is four tickets for the train and plane, but for the car, you just have to load them in and start driving.
@@thomaskalbfus2005 I didn't really think of planes while writing, since its such a hassle to use, unlike other forms of public and private transport options. As for the price I mentioned in my comment that the car was cheaper if it carries 4-5 people. If only 1 person is in the car, which is the case the majority of the time. I do believe that we really should invest in getting the families onboard with public transit anyway, just as mass transit planes is the absolute best option for travelling by air.
“In a car, you can go anywhere you want, whenever you want.” Yeah, anywhere you want, as long as it’s on the pre-built pre-decided government funded roads? And as long as you have a license, insurance, and billions of other forms? And as long as you follow every rule of the road? And as long as you have gas supplied to you by companies?
And as long as it's not rush hour. And as long as there is parking. And as long as you're not a child, young teen, disabled person, or very old person.
“In a car, you can go anywhere you want, whenever you want.” Said absolutely no-one that has ever sat in a traffic jam for hours on end. Which seems to be everyone these days.
As a black conservative, I'd find your type humourous, if it wasn't so sad how racist you are while using cognitive dissonance to convince yourself that you aren't. Oh right I forgot, according to your side, I ain't black. (Technically I'm more of a libertarian but you get my point)
@@datachu Keep simping for conservatives.....they will still hate your guts, and other flat out with you dead or deported. That IS conservatism, in group/out group.
I grew up in the suburbs. As a teen, the only places we had to hang out was random parking lots, or the mall. There’s nothing to do and nowhere to go. It’s horrendously boring.
Yep. And nothing to do that’s free or at least costs $30 or less, especially if you live in an urban area, where’s there’s little to no parks and everything’s overpriced
“Where do you hang out? Where do you go?” As an American that hit more hard than you can imagine. Growing up your parents always tell you go outside and you’re just like go where? There’s no where to go? I feel this even now harder as an adult where I have a car and could go anywhere but there’s no actual places to just meet new people and hang out any large social event is preplanned by people already in a group who may not want any outsiders
You can always drive to a bar, watch some sports on TV, get smashed, and drive home drunk. If you choose to hang out "somewhere" youll get cited for loitering. Which anyone from outside the US will never understand.
I remember these "war on cars" arguments from decades back when my European home town started to build more bike lanes and created car free zones and shopping streets. Especially business owners in those streets were whining and then as their profits went up suddenly everyone calmed down 😂
I saw a meme recently, it said 'Why don't you kids go outside and play instead of sitting if front of the screen' then it showed a picture of a stroad filled with traffic and shops baking in the sun with no shade or trees and below it said 'because this is the outside you built'....It really is the 'depressing suburban wasteland' that Not Just Bikes talks about, no local shops because the big chains monopolised them out of business decades ago, just houses, roads and a shit load of cars...
There is also been a movement to encourage parents to strangle their kids by keeping them on their lawn only when supercvised and no outside friends other then the ones from church or maybe school, if parent decides there parents aren't too liberal.
Ironically it's actually the internet that has been the cause of a lot of it. With the internet the mobility of cars loses a lot of it's appeal. You can get niche items without a car because of online shopping and you can get information from anywhere with google. People go outside to get a more genuine experience which the internet can not provide which is what walkable areas are trying to provide.
".It really is the 'depressing suburban wasteland" No that is an urban area, in suburban areas every house has its own yard and there are many more green places for kids to play.
oh yes, cars totally bring people together. By putting them in tiny little boxes with wheels that have a tendency to get surrounded by 1 million other tiny little boxes with wheels. yeah, they really foster a sense of community and not a deep hatred for everyone else driving on the road
on 9/11 we had an example of Air rage when two passenger jets were crashed into the twin towers and one was crashed into the Pentagon, those were air rage incidents also know as terrorism!
@@shadowfax3505 the only way to transport people en masse is with public infrastructure, and the only way to pay for infrastructure is through taxes. If you don't want to pay for other peoples' transportation, your only real option is tax evasion
@@LisaBeergutHolst no that's basic budgeting, having enough money to repair things that break. For example, washing machine, oven, or your vehicle. Repairing an air conditioner shouldn't cost more than a few hundred dollars. You can go without it, and probably be fine, but it more of a convenience of life thing.
@@duckdestroyer2412 So I guess all the people living without one those things are just bad at finance? That's a lot of people. Maybe it would be easier if they didn't need to set aside half their income for transportation lol
I can't get over how they animated a parking lot into a cute little green space with a lake and trees and then tried to make that sound like a bad thing. Green spaces are awesome especially for just taking a chill walk or cruising on a board
I'm a Brit and our car culture is nowhere near as bad as Americans, but it's still mind-blowing spending time in another European nation and experiencing the freedom on not having to drive for the first time
My mom lives in an area where the whole little town is built around a big community center, with a bunch of restaurants, shops, and local businesses. Across the street is a big open park where they have food trucks at the end of each month and often hold craft shows, and when it's not being used people play soccer or frisbee. It's gorgeous, everybody knows everybody else, and super convenient because you can walk or bike everywhere. The only downside is it's expensive as heck, because heaven forbid we have nice things like that here in the US without paying a premium for them.
@Абдульзефир If you get paid less than your market worth, you should change jobs. Getting paid less than market is no one elses fault but your own. Slavery is irrelevant. We are discussing poverty.
@Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Who cares about what some deluded russian dude has to say though? Especially when what he says is demonstrably false?
As an American, I can tell you that I have never felt freer than spending $0 to walk 30 minutes to work every day. These people sound like teenagers that just got their first car. I never feel less free than when I’m driving
I walk 50 min to and from work 4 days a week. Freed me of 30kg of excess body fat. For free! One weird trick... diet-pushers and fitness centers hate it.... yada yada ;-P
@@vikiai4241 Good for u but its not good for you if your only physical activity is walking or running, physical education = health, and walking/running is like 10% of the whole world, so you should indeed visit a fitness center or get an instructor
They sort of already did that with their video about how -war profiteers- private mercenary companies are totally gonna end Americas‘s forever wars in no time, because something something private companies are better at... destroying their own business model, apparently.
Even if that wasn't the case, wtf do they mean by exploring in a car. Cars limit you to roads. Even "off-road" vehicle are still extremely limited by terrain, trees, structures, etc. Out of all the adventuring I've done, so little of it has been in a car. It's been on bikes, hikes, kayaks, ATVs, zip-lines, and snowboards. The only thing the car does is get me to the start of the adventure, and that's only because it's often the only option. Also, biking or any of those things is always awesome in a new place, but driving in an unfamiliar place is stressful and sucks. And I've never had to worry about another kayaker drinking and paddling, bumping into my kayak, and killing me and my entire family.
@@TheAwesomes2104 The most fun I have exploring a city is on foot. Walking into a sideroad and see whats behind the next corner. To look into the nooks and crannies of the place. In a car you can't leave the road and are to busy with not ramming others to see what's around you.
I hate the complaint, “but public transportation sucks in America.” Gee, I wonder how that could happen?
its largely because the city layout is not designed for public transit so it hardly works in most places
@@Tobi_Jones
No thanks to lobbyists
@@Tobi_Jones Literally every American city was designed for public transportation before WW2. Every single one! Los Angeles had the largest and most extensive streetcar system in the world prior to them demolishing it all. American cities were bulldozed and destroyed for cars, and that damage could be reversed with the political will.
Because city planners suck Koch all day long.
I'm sure a conspiracy amongst GM, Firestone, standard oil, Mack trucks, Phillips oil and others to buy up city tram lines and systematically destroy them had nothing to do with it.
"Some cars are more equal than others"
-Gorgeous Orwell, Car Farm
The part where the cars began driving on two wheels (mirroring the old abusers that were the bicycle) made my skin scrawl.
Lmao!
the classic George Orlando’s 1864
Henerage Fordwell
no, its:
Gorgeous Gaswell.
Why as a car enthusiast I strongly support investing in public transit:
It'll make driving more of an adventure because it's not something one would be forced to do
Reducing the running & insurance costs due to keeping the miles down
Having a nicer car for a longer time
Less carbon emissions
Less shitty drivers on the road
Less cars being bought that become neglected
Most importantly, more room for me to enjoy the drive.
I think this is the reasonable conclusion of any car enthusiast with a brain. The people who yell “war on cars” are the same contrarians always trying to “own the libs”.
Totally agree with you as a petro head myself
As a fellow petrol-head, I am 100% with you
Yes, I agree as a fellow motorhead
money spent on repairing big interstates and shitty city roads now could be diverted to repairing countryside roads, too, where it is a) near impossible to build good public transport by nature of the terrain b) it is VERY fun to drive fast cars.
Nothing screams freedom like needing to pay thousands of dollars to buy a car, pay thousands of dollars for insurance, pay thousands of dollars on gas, pay hundreds for useless road infrastructure taxes, just so you can be stuck in traffic for 2 hours every day and potentially die in a crash.
couldn't have said it better myself
+1
Don't forget that in the U.S police can strip you of any and all freedom if you happen to be driving a car significantly more than other situations.
My favorite freedom, the freedom to suddenly die at a young age
Where is your freedom when transit workers go on strike? Dependence on mass transit means you depend on someone else to get to work, and sometime they aren't so dependable. Cars take you from point A to point B, with mass transit you need to find some way to go from point A to point B so that mass transit can take you from point B to point C, then you must find some way to go from point C to point D.
@@LucyTheBox such as in a terrorist attack on a subway station.
"Cars bring people together"
Meanwhile, LA's freeways literally divide the neighborhoods of the city.
More like bringing people together in a traffic jam
But they can come back together ON the freeway, IN their cars.........stuck in a traffic jam together ❤️❤️❤️
(I'm joking)
Just remind PragerU how much LA uses cars, and PragerU would instantly delete this video
@@mrunseen3797 The joke is that it is funny because it is true, eh?
@@asantaraliner XD Fuck yeah!
"Where do you hang out? Where do you go?"
As a kid i really felt this. My parents always told me to "go outside" but I never had anywhere to go. They were so worried about me not being able to make friends but I think the suburban hellscape we lived in really contributed to that.
I grew up in a small town and the few areas of suburban-style tract houses there always seemed boring and hostile to me as a kid on a bike.
And it's only made worse by the growing trend of "concerned citizens" calling the police any time they see unsupervised children in public. If you're too young to drive, then you're literally trapped at home.
i used to just hang out in the bush, it was pretty sick tbh
@@bigbrothertw aw lucky, we barely had any interesting bush areas near where I lived
No kidding. I can count on one hand how many other kids lived in my suburb growing up. My parents always tried getting me to go outside, but my brothers and I never did because the only interesting things to do were Legos and Wii Sports.
If there's a war on cars in America, then the cars are definitely winning.
This was a great video. With respect to the freedom part, one of the things I've often said is that living in the Netherlands gives us "the freedom to not to have to drive."
I love it. And our kids love it even more, because it means they get their independence.
Exspacially you arn´t forced to buy a car and pump even more money into it for fuel and repairs. And if you can´t afford it you´re screwed... yeah freedom of choice with only on choice! ;)
It’s ironic because the same conservatives who bash this generation for being weak and “snowflakes” are the same that support polices that perpetuate homebody lifestyles for anyone under 16.
@@Truf-teller and americans are explorers, but they don´t can even grow up like one...
@@henrik5488 They can explore the endless suburbia around them to play the beloved game of "spot the difference between all the samey houses" :b
Amogus
You can see them switching between "the enemy is weak" and "the enemy is strong" in a single breath.
that's a standard fascist rhetoric: The enemy controls everything but is also inferior at the same time.
@@lol-ih1tl All powerful snowflakes xd
keep calling out this tactic, as it goes unnoticed all too often! 👍
@@lol-ih1tl Not just right-wing -- it's standard fascist rhetoric. In fact, my comment was riffing on part of Umberto Eco's definition of Ur-Fascism.
I'm pretty sure most dictators do that. It makes sense in a way. If the enemy is weak, why haven't you beaten them yet? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. If the enemy is strong, why are you trying to fight them? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. Worst of both worlds.
She's actually making the same argument Adam is, that people are FORCED to rely on their cars. She's just not aware of it
@A Fels a n t i c a r d o g m a
Ahhh the right wing hypocrisy.
@A Fels
WTF is your first sentence even supposed to mean? How does the housing market figure into any of this? And how do I have a choice wether or not I want "to live in a working housing market"? The housing market exists independently of me living in a suburb or someplace else.
Also the second paragraph. Dear god.
Have you maybe considered that developing public transport in the suburbs might be a possibility as well? The fact that suburbs don't need to be car dependent never crossed your mind?
@@generalaccount6531 The funny thing about "wanting everyone to follow a single lifestyle" is that it is an old American thing. The plot of Upton Sinclair's Main Street revolves around that conformity. I remember that old joke that the West has its own "Cultural Revolution" and it's called "Trends"...
@A Fels Quality of life is objectively higher in mixed use neighborhoods. I have six different supermarkets within a ten minute walking distance of where I live and I rarely need to use the car for anything except to go camping or something.
"why is prageru anti-small business" hmm why would a foundation funded by large corporations be aggressive towards small businesses
While simultaneously pushing the narrative of "why we need more small businesses to prove the american dream is still real. Please believe us. We really do want there to be economic mobility for people who were born below the elite. We definitely dont want to keep the rich rich and cull the poor."
It was a rhetorical question..
Freedom means driving 5 miles to buy groceries instead of walking 600 feet because your grocery store needed a giant parking lot.
And then you have to walk 600 feet to get through the parking lot.
when i heard adam say "15 minutes by car to the groceries"
i was stunned... i thought he meant "15 minutes on foot to the groceries"
and i thought sydney was bad... god bless america
@@yukko_parra it’s a 25 minute walk to my closest grocery store. About 20 minutes to the convenience store, which is the closest business to my house. And I live in a suburb mind you, not a rural area.
And that’s all next to major roads where people will go upwards of 60 mph if they’re feeling naughty.
i go to the grocery store every other day because i have 3 in ste span of 800m. Depending what direction i'm coming from i can choose one. Coming rom a place where you had to use the car because well, in a small mountain town is how you get around, i can't think why anyone would live in a city AND have to do 15 minutes of car to buy things
And then the grocery store is the size of a football field and takes an hour to get literally everything because it's so spaced out, rather that being a small European grocery store that's a quarter of the size, yet still has everything one would need, and oftentimes at a better quality and cheaper price then their American counterpart
@@davidmhh9977 i mean, we have big shopping malls here in Europe with big ass grocery stores but you go there once in a while and do a big shopping (I don't know if this is proper English) that will last some time. But for everyday things we have normal sized stores that are enough.
I love how prageru animated a parking space being replaced by a nice park, as if they thought "Yeah if we show everyone how our nice gray asphalt parking spaces will be replaced by horrible green parks, they'll be on our side!"
“ A car crash is a tragedy, but a pileup is a statistic.”
- Carseph Stalin
based
He be Stalin because he's still stuck in traffic.
@@jaydencoleman9068 i trust you but i'd like to check.
Cringen't
Stalin believed in induced demand but for food
*"There is a war on cars!"*
[walks outside, cars everywhere]
My god, they've already won!
Jesus, they're ruthless
Genius, no wonder you're a Nobel prize winner! I guess the war on drugs didn't exist because.... drugs still exist? L
@@thomasdick6797 ur mad
my mom always complain that as I got older, didn't go outside anymore. But the reason for that is the amount of cars parking in my street. Nowadaysy there's a lot of days that is only parked cars at both sides.
indeed, they won :(
-sorry for bad english-
@@thomasdick6797 no silly cars won the war on cars, just as drugs won the war on drugs before them. god bless america.
America's car culture brings people together... jammed in traffic, fighting over spaces, exchanging insurance details...
...stuck in metal boxes and they cant talk to each other
And modifying them too.
Road Rage the glue of a nation!
....Creates unnecessary hostility towards pedestrians and bikers....
But Fast and Furious!
I love how they replaced a parking lot with a green space sounding like “oh look how horrible this is”
All those damn trees taking up space for my personal 2ton machine of glass an steel 😡
Lol yeah
I hate better air quality and the natural color of green that human eyes like
@@SadMatte lol
"The free market is the answer"
"The government should provide free parking"
Pick one, PragerU.
They should just say, "the government should be under our complete control and do things only when it's convenient for us and no one else."
@@MiketheNerdRanger government is only good when it supports their businesses.
@@theasianboy315 Cool story bro
@@theasianboy315 Americans need to learn that both their parties are right of centre.
@@theasianboy315 there is no left wing or right wing only good policy or not.
You also save money by not having to drive a car. The average cost of owning a car in the US is $5,000 a year. Even in the state with the cheapest cost of car ownership, the average is $3,600 a year. In the US city with the most expensive public transit, the average cost is $1500 per year. If you're able to bike and walk everywhere, you can save even more money.
Right. And if you include depreciation (and you should if you own a car and plan to sell in a few years), that cost of ownership doubles or more. Canadian dollar values with depreciation are estimated between $8,600 and $13,000 a year from compact car to truck. Or $6,800 USD to $10,277... And if you live rural, the wear and tear and cost of maintenance etc can be higher, while if you live urban, the insurance premiums and cost of parking (and parking tickets) add up.
$5000 at an average salary of $20 an hour is roughly 250 hours of work. If you save more than an 40 minutes a day (seven days a week) by owning a car and instead spend said time working it's still a good purchase.
@@SweBeach2023 Every job I've worked has had a set shift/hours you're supposed to work. I don't know many jobs where you can just decide to work an extra hour by virtue of being there earlier.
Don't forget to add in health costs from sitting on your ass all day, traffic stress, pollution.
bUt tHe iNduSTRieS!!!!!!?!!!
As a school bus driver, I like the idea of bike lanes. It means I can safely pass a biker without having to drive on the left side of the road. I don't see why people hate them so much.
The reason irrationable people hate bike lanes:
1. There are typically empty sidewalks outside of downtowns, *Why share the road where a cyclist could be ran over or hurt by oversized vehicles?*
Then imagine being a biker on a road, that shit is scary
@@MainMite06 I dont know how the laws are in America, but in germany we arent even allowed to drive our Bikes on the sidewalk (except for Kids). We have to either use the Road, or the designated Biking lane.
As a biker, i like the idea of bike lanes because it means i don't have to worry about getting hit by a school bus
@@resinks2269 As it should be.
I love how “cars bring people together”, yet are literally your own little metal box.
And sometimes the other people in their own boxes piss you off.
"Freedom is choosing between Coke and Pepsi" -PragerU, probably...
And yet, they get real mad when I pick a local variant.
Nah "black Cola" is still better
"Freedom is when you can drive your SUV from your McMansion in your segregated private suburb to your job at a fracking site"
-PragerU
between diabetes and hypertension
i choose Bepis
The free market decided that GM, Ford and Chrysler were building crap in the 1970s, so people bought Japanese cars. The American companies would have vanished if the government hadn't stepped in to rescue them.
That is not fair. They were still building crap in the 80s. I loved my Subaru tho.
Also the US "asked" the Japanese companies to have a "voluntary" limit on the amount of cars they sold here, and put a stupid tax on all foreign made trucks so they would never be profitable to sell here, limiting our freedom to choose what we want to buy and having to settle for crap. Not much of a free market.
@@jacehackworth6413 How does one say “The Brat is clearly not a truck” in Japanese? …with a straight face, that is.
You clearly aren't a car enthusiast. The 1970 Dodge Challenger made over 400 horse power.
@@christiantaylor1495 you have the outlook of a 10 year old. There’s more to it than one car making a lot of power. And that didn’t last long anyway. Have you not heard of the oil crisis?
PragerU: Communism is when no car, capitalism is when car.
Laughs in Lada
Well Chinese people can't just go buy a car...
Laughs in Trabant
@@Half_Finis you think China is communist? You probably believe North Korea is democratic lol
@@ajarofmayonnaise3250 yeah China hasn't been communist since the good old days of chairman mao
2:25 I'm an descendant of the Aztecs and I want to sacrifice PragerU to the gods because it is part of my culture
Hey, it's been three months. How's the sacrifice coming along? I'd offer to help, but I don't want to interfere with your culture, but I'd gladly buy a front row seat if you're selling tickets.
What right do we have to restrict his freedom?
@@АндрейБебенин-д1х What?
@@juliansmith4295 it's joke.
@@blakksheep736 Okie dokie. Um...ha ha.
Freeways are literally the model used by philosophers and critical theorists to demonstrate how one can appear totally free to move, yet remain totally under control.
True freedom is not being on the road it is being on foot, where u can go everywhere.
And the typical American suburban road / stroad network is literally designed to dump everyone onto the freeway
@@oligultonn I can attest this.
Spent 5-9 years without a car.
5yrs as an adult with a job that's 10-15miles away.
Took a skateboard and the bus the whole time.
Sometimes a bicycle.
Cars are nice and I recently got one just haven't started driving yet. I'm too used to walking around xD
@@dandywaysofliving I suffer from the same problem. I live in Reykjavík, Iceland. Pretty much all the city is within 30 min of walking from my home. Even during winter, it is not hard to walk everywhere because everything is within short reach. Although I do have a car and I use it daily, I prefer to walk and there are walking paths everywhere.
If a place isn't connected to a freeway then it simply doesn't exist.
"Americans hate being told what to do, where to go, and when to be there" but also "Theres a war on work". Gotcha.
When they say "freedom", that means freedom for the rich, not the poor. That's why they support cars, because rich people can afford them, and poor people can't.
@@dreye3215 Not only that, but with cities spread to accommodate cars, theyre basically a necessity. Literally removing the "upwards mobility" of poor people. I took a predatory loan (24% interest over like 72 months) because, thats all that I could get as a first time car buyer with little credit, without a car I'd have to get a job at a 7/11. I'm also a white male so I know it can be worse for others, such as straight up being denied; not even allowed the "privilege" of going into debt for a necessity. We're so fucked
But being told what to think is apparently fine.
@Peter Kurten I'm familiar. They are only good points if you agree with him.
@Peter Kurten : _Rowe actually is correct about a war on work in America but it's not about work refusers_
Also @Peter Kurten : _We do have a work refuser class in America and they are the core Democrat voter bloc._
You have contradictory and incoherent points. Trying to differentiate between work refusers and a worker refuser "class" is making a distinction without a difference. It would be like saying that elite rich people are not the problem, but the elite rich people "class" is.
On another note, your use of language suggests that you are a partisan hate viewer. I will wait for a salient point, but, if you had one, you would have already presented it. Feel free to stay mad and scream into the void. Scream for the algorithm gods.
"Americans are explorers"
Jamie, pull up that video "asking americans simple geography questions".
Every trip is an adventure into the unknown
@@odomobo Anyone becomes an explorer when they lack basic jeografi.
@@odomobo yeah, I just thought the contrast between those 2 things was funny.
@@odomobo I agree hehe. The problem comes when someone can't pinpoint any country besides their own. And sometimes even less. Everything becomes the unknown at that point lol
""Americans are explorers"
Only if they can get monoclonal antibodies with their ivermectin...
When I hear the words "Cost companies millions" I literally just roll my eyes
I dont care they make it back in a day
It's such a terrible way to argue.
But won't somebody think of the billionaires?!
Not cool man. Show some empathy to the CEOs. Put yourself in their shoes.
Yes, because all companies are owned by billionaires and never normal people
Not the poor artisan oil company ceos
The reasoning is simple. PragerU is funded by oil millionaires.
Who thought a channel almost entirely paid by fracking ghouls would advocate for cars over environmentalism
Must be George Oreo, author of Anime Farm
Even if we ignore environmental aspect, walkable cities are just pleasant. Unless you're a car mechanic, own a gas station or are oil baron, it's just pure ignorance.
Don t have anything to say besides hello fellow DIsco Elysium fan!
@@alansbizzareadventures1827 Yeah, it's /s. Inflection's hard in text.
@@GregVidua Capatalsm baby!!!
I love the idea that adding bike lanes is restricting people's freedom.
"Our freedom is being restricted more and more!!" "How?" "Umm... uhh- bike lanes! BIKE LANES!! Those goddamned bike lanes!!"
Literally communism
In Europe we build bike lanes to move bike trafic from the road to it's own designated lane. That means:
1) bikes come before bike lanes in many places.
2) bike lanes provide more space for car drivers on the road, because the bikes are out of the way.
They realy have to do some weird brain gymnastics to think bike lanes restrict people's freedom.
Cant drive on a 8 lane road through the middle of a village with a population of 100 because the bikelane narrowed the road by one lane? Literally 1984
at the same time people on bikes are people out of a car as in, potentially more parking spaces
the fact they added bicycles to the list of threats is so funny to me cause cycles (especially e-bikes) are the pinnacle of freedom. you can get to places cars cant even reach and at a moderate speed
Ever tried not living in the center of a giant city...
@@marcusborderlands6177 I get it you like your Ford F-150 but honestly stfu we are not talking about the country side we are talking about the suburbs and city centre. Cars suck at the job they are supposed to complete
@@marcusborderlands6177trains and buses exist. And I literally live across from a farm, but if the roads were safe I would be able to bike into town
@@marcusborderlands6177 you can ride your bike in the suburbs and rural areas it’s actually quite nice . wish we built more infrastructure for rural and suburban people who wanna bike cuz it’s nice exercise and the peace and quiet is nice .
virgin petrol drinker vs chad muscle fuel
"Let's make walking impossible to force people to buy a car to be free again. "
Sounds like a 80s movie villain's plan.
Eddie Valiant: "Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel!"
Judge Doom: "Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it."
@@Zalis116 I KNEW IT
The movie "Robots."
"Upgrades, people! Upgrades!"
i think it actually is a villain’s plan in a movie
Also paying to the government for owning a car even if you barely use it. Car insurance is literally forced. And what does the tax money go to ? A absurdly weaponized military and bombing Syria (Biden still doing this)
As an American, I think it's funny Prager U equates having a car to being just like being explorer. Oh yeah, like I'm going to throw on my raccoon hat and go trekking through the Rocky Mountains like Lewis & Clark! Don't kid yourself, the only place I'm going to explore is the liquor store, but only after I explore my ass to my shitty job at Amazon. You know, that place where I'm told be at a certain time. That thing "Americans have never been good at."
The fuck??
tbh i like americas car culture i am also an motor head but i think cars and public transport can go together
@@adityamakwana612 on that I agree! I've actually built a '70 Chevy Camero SS. I just wish there was a more happy medium for people who either don't/can't/shouldn't drive.
"I live a sad life so this argum÷nt is clearly terrible" I can pull up 100 youtube channels dedicated to driving cars through the woods, on mountains, and over trails. Try again
@@thomasdick6797 Where the heck did you interpret that idea? It's called a joke my dude... I know times are tough, but chill. No, my point is Prager U's argument is terrible because this is exactly how a child perceives reality. Not because "Oh, I have to drive 30 minutes to a job that pays above minimum wage and gives me health benefits during a business-breaking pandemic, woe is me!" That's psychotic!
Also, driving through the woods with a road, trail, or a map doesn't make you Lewis and Clark- More like Clark Griswold at best. L&C were survivalists and snake-eaters, they were the astronauts of their time. They couldn't just hop into a van and hit the road. There was no road, there were no hotels, no Mcdonald's, They had to make their own maps along the way, most of the time they were starving, sick, or injured, their only tour-guides could barely speak English, if at all, and many of the local tribes wanted to kill them!
To say all American's are all "explorers" just like Lewis and Clark just because they bought a car or truck is just stupid and ultimately misleading.
@@Rune3D so when you say explorer it's a joke but when PragerU says explorer you wanna nail them with the definition. The irony. Might as well say "yeah I don't hold myself to any standards 🤷 that would be too hard". The best part is you have some oddly specific requirements to be considered an explorer, last I checked the activity of EXPLORING something makes you an explorer and at no point in Webster do they mention mode of transportation, diet, or where you sleep. Btw you're ignoring the part where I mentioned many of the channels literally just drive through the woods, no roads. Cope again
"Car culture is dying because of government"
*Looks at ever widening interstates, systematic defunding of railroads, and the General Motors streetcar conspiracy*
You’ll take this 40-lane arterial road separating your child from their elementary school and like it, damn commienist
Note: the streetcar thing probably wasn't a simple conspiracy, just the "free" unregulated market destroying the cities
th-cam.com/video/fVJeO4sGbGQ/w-d-xo.html some leftie small channel recently made a video on this
When my city installed a lightrail line everyone made a huge deal over it like it was some futuristic thing.
Look at photographs from 100 years ago and the central area was all streetcars. Every block of the main city was serviced by a streetcar line.
Car culture is dying cause most good cars are way too expensive, and people need to save that money to somehow find a way to buy a house. Like seriously, unless car is a requirement for someone I don't think any of my friends have even considered it. But we do have a relatively better public transport system in my country.
See, but if the gunberment isn't run by marxist-anarchist-communist-satanists then conservatives would have to admit that they are "losing the culture war" when they have all the advantages. If that's true, they're not the superior underdog, but the stagnant corpse of the old hierarchy.
"Everything that i don't like has to do with leftist ideology" - PragerU
How freaking radical right one should be to consider car fuel standards as leftist or communist? These people are insane.
Literally what the most Conservative party leader in Norway is doing during these elections of ours. Everything she opposes is somehow socialism. Literally everyone who wants the government to be changed are socialists. And I'm pretty sure she'd call certain people inside the current right wing government socialists too
@@Permuh it starts with an "f" and rhymes with "ascism" and socialists are its #1 scapegoat
@Herdan Thank you. People often note and complain about someone right wing being "CoMUnIsM" at anything they don't agree with or whatever but then... can't differentiate between ideologies properly themselves so like... bit of a pot calling kettle black situation.
I mean yeah, that is literally all it comes down to. Their entire ideology is just a culture war that turns everything into a big dumb team sport. That's what regressives have always done. They don't even know what they're saying half the time, let alone care. As long as the argument continues and they can draw battle lines to duke it out over something half-true that is ultimately bullshit then they feel successful.
"it forced automakers to increase fuel efficiency" , "it has cost consumers billions of dollars". I don't think they understand what efficiency mean
I love how their info graphics replaces grey parking lots with a nice green park with a pond and benches and frames this as a negative.
“PIRANHAS IN THE PONDS!”
It's prettier so it's better? A very bourgeoise outlook.
@@MrCmon113 Seriously?
@@MrCmon113 are you trolling? obviously a parks and recreational areas in the comunity are very important.
people like you are the reason why there are anti suicide nets in apple factories
@@MrCmon113 Ah yes, the proletariat parking lot, as opposed to the bourgeoisie actual nature.
The war on Boys is real btw. I've fought like 15 boys. I'm no longer allowed at the middle school but I fought bravely for my country
I think there are unseen issues that boys tend to have to deal with more so than girls but calling it a war is so asinine
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service
Thanks, I hate boys. You know how many boys there are? At least 10,000! That’s crazy!
Thank you for your service o7
That little montage on those two economists was *chef’s kiss*
I was in tears from laughing
Strong in the memes is this one.
“A rich country is not a place where poor people drive cars, it is a place where rich people take public transportation.”
Developed country*
That place is called Singapore
@@JH-jm8ib singapore is just one of the examples. Other examples are the UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong among many others
@@namanverma1282 Exactly.
I live in Japan, where the vast majority of people, at any level in the company, take the train to work. There's a huge middle class, and very few people on the extremes of the wealth gap. One of my clients lived in Thailand for six years, and just today, he was telling me about how in Bangkok, the people saw the train as transport for the poor, and the rich would sit in their cars and take three times as long to get to work because of the traffic.
@@namanverma1282 In more than half of Europe (especially the larger cities and in-between cities it is like that). Sweden, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, etc...
Thousands of tax payer funded parking spaces - not communism
Thousands of tax payer funded bike spaces - communism
PragerU Probably.
@@CmdrTobs And we all just love to be in a car centric place without any option to change that. Brought to you by the logic: "we started using cars, so we better not stop and try something else that is proven to be better".
Though i agree, some places need taxes foranaging infrastructure but also collecting taxes to do something that is objectively good with the money also isn't bad, oh wait, isn't this the point of taxes?
To hell having social security, its just redistribution fron the working class to the retirees!! Very sound logic right?
Well, here in Germany our biggest fear unlike the US isn't "communism", but we kinda rant about the same things. With the same stupidity, actually.
They get absolutely pissed, when we do anything street related, that doesn't DIRECTLY benefit cars. Like Bicycle Lanes. Or Car Bans in certain streets. Or Speed Limits. Or anything else, really.
The "logic" is, that they pay a lot of tax money (for having a car itself, and fuel tax on top), and assume, bicycles don't pay those costs (which indeed, they don't), therefore the City and anything else shall be car focused, and everyone daring enough to ride a bike shall be executed immedietaly.
They kinda miss an important point tough; Car infrastructure is so incredibly expansive, that the Car Tax Money ain't enough to cover. Getting Rid of Car Space (like parking lanes), Bicycle Infrastructure and so on are so benefitial for Society, that they actually pay for themselves.
The PragerU video feels like something out of a fake show in the Simpsons
yo
Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure. You might remember me from such PragerU videos as: "The War on Guns" and "Why the left hates babies"
Greetings exalted ones
@@LNKSonTH-cam .
It really is so horrifically distorted. I swear the animation style just keeps getting creepier.
I remember the war on cars. Lost too many friends to Lamborghinis and Teslas. Was a sad, sad war.
I was on the other side, some of my friends where terribly wounded and lost their families by Scania and atlas. Why should we fight this pointless bloody war ? Why not settle for a truce? And yet the battle rages on, consuming the lives of many great men from both sides.
the ferraris massacred many towns in cold blood
I know this is a joke but sports cars are safer for cyclists and pedestrians cause they weigh less than other cars,have a much smaller impact zone on person if they hit them than a regular car,and you can spot them more easily
@@davidtism9963 a lambo, ferrari, etc is made out of sharp angles and straight lines, just like a sword or an axe. A volvo is roundy and the safest cars to run into.
@@augustusimperator.avi1872 First pls get some eyes Ferraris have very gentle lines that aren't very angular,and the few lines that are angular on a Ferrari are on the sides or the back
Second some sharp angles are a lot less deadly than hundreds of pounds more weight,also since supercars are lower if they hit a pedestrian or cyclist they'll hit somewhere under theirs knees,which while it sounds bad,it is much better than getting in the hips,ribs, pretty much anywhere in the chest
As an American who can't drive due to epilepsy, I find the shift towards better public transportation to be awesome..
I love how their argument is "cars allow us to go wherever we want", without realizing that , if you have a car, you can only go where the government decided there should be a road.
Remind me of a quote that sound like this.
"You are free to follow any road you want but remember, the big road are already planned out for you."
I wonder how many places are reachable by car vs how many are by subway or train... fucking terrible argument that you clearly didn't think through. Go ahead and ride that train to the beach ⛱
@@thomasdick6797 In places that have half-decent public transport networks getting to somewher e like the beach isn't a problem, is it now? Take Japan, or Singapore, or Hong Kong for example. Heck even in the UK where I live, and that is known for having trains where "30 minutes within time specified" = on time getting to the nearest beach or most places that are kind of out of the way is not that big of a problem at all. Then after that if I have to walk for a few minutes to my final destination or take a bus then so be it.
Also you didn't seem to consider that, disregarding the other problems with the current state of car usage, in a country that has been lobbied so hard by car manufacturers / fossil fuel companies (seriously did you even watch the video???), the solution to an insufficient public transport network is to invest more resources into improving it? You're 100% correct that in a country with a terrible transport network, right now the situation is that far more places are accessible by car, but that's not the inherent fault of a public transport network is it?. Look at Europe. Look at places in East Asia. Fuck it, look at China.
It's rare that I want to engage someone on TH-cam but damn you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of that discount-store brain of yours lmao. I hope you have a good day and can take a moment to calm yourself the fuck down. I took your bait, but I'm out. Peace.
@@Saltmaster_shio pseudo intellectual that's just regurgitating the talking points of the video👏 and I have the discount store brain. The irony. If you genuinely believe the government will properly manage public transit just look at current government funded programs. Every country you mentioned is the size of one state. I guess the idea of scalability never crossed your mind. Or the fact that Europe is quite homogenous. Cope harder next time because that book you wrote most definitely sounded better in your head.
@@Saltmaster_shio also, the salt master is quite salty 👌 fat L
14:00 "Cars bring us together as a country"
Yes, because youtube is filled with "Random Acts of Driver Kindness" videos and not "Road Rage/Instant Karma" compilations...
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Cars bring you together because you use cars to get everywhere. Because you can't get places with anything else.
Cars have so much potential to bring people together. Quickly, in a fiery wreck, multiple times a day.
politics aside, "terminally American" is a hilarious phrase
This is a beautifully worded phrase indeed
@@pixelpancakes489 and an accurate statement to describe the worst republicans
Terminally American is phrase is when you do something stupid but said it expressing your freedom and if you disagree you are authoritarian or getting too into firing guns.
@@pixelpancakes489 this made me laugh out loud
nah, i agree with the message of the video but the high horse europeanism puts me off. someone tell this guy that if it were not for the americans caring about what happens in the backwater that is europe, then he would have been labouring in a german or russian camp by now. im not american btw
Conservatives: "The free market should do the deciding."
Free market: Makes fuel in the US slightly less dirt-cheap.
Conservatives: *Start printing stickers how biden is to blame*
"Cars allow us to go wherever we want"
This is only true for those who own a car and have a licence and ability to drive it.
It excludes children and most teenagers, it excludes disabled people, it excludes the poor, it excludes a lot of elderly.
Exactly the people who need a public transport option, because a lot of them would not be able to walk or cycle long distance either.
Wow. The issue of cars really showcases the more general problem with the US uh ? Lobbying and industrial profits at the expense of people and even more so the more vulnerable ones…
We also can't go wherever we want, we literally need a road built for us to go there.
Majority of people are NOT QUALIFIED to hold a license.
I'm epileptic and can't get a license. Tell me about it.
My mind went straight to Area 51 for some reason.
Like where is my freedom to see the aliens!?!
What I love about PragerU is how unconvincing their so-called arguments are. That diagram of the car lots changing into parks and bike lanes looked /great/, I would love to live in a city with such nice greenery and public transit!
Yeah, all the poor people in the Netherlands, having to sit in an on-street cafe in the quit, nice smelling, green neighborhoods instead of in a fume-smelling car, jammed on route to a boiling field of asphalt. Poor people.
Lol right? Don't threaten me with a good time
this guy took much of prager u's video out of context tho, and he edited a lot of it out as well
How often do you walk or bike to your destination?
(I'm asking for research purposes.)
@@deftknight7418 I dont walk or ride my bike to any major destinations for a few reasons, 1 being that I live far from any major destinations, which is another reason I like cars, and 2 is cars are more time and eneergy effient, for instance, It would take less energy to drive to the store than it would to ride or walk, plus I am in texas, where it is usually hot, so in some cases, especially during the summer, it can be dangerous to ride a bike or walk somewhere due to heat strokes, compared to cars who have air conditioning
“Communism is when the government builds bike lanes and trains”
- Carl Mark
"Cars give freedom, so I make no car in communism"
- Vladimi Leni
Marl Cark
"car bad" -Josep stali
Based! Sign me up, Carl!
"Carl" a subtle but excelent pun (Should be Carl Marx tho)
They act like making parks is evil. They are like cartoon villains who want to cut down a forest for a mansion or something
Then they whine about people not going outside and sedentary.
literally the lorax
Laughed so hard at the graphic of the parking spaces being replaced by a park, and it somehow being a bad thing
I hope Tiktok-is-Cancer is one day covered by Adam Something.
Because cars are cool
@@vinayakdan3018 I'd love to hear how greenery and communal spaces is somehow worse than ugly, space consuming, parking lots.
insert we bulldozed heaven to build a parking lot reference
the liberals are forcing us to touch grass!
"We want oil to be FREE from government influence"
"Ok, I am taking away your subsidies then"
"HOLD ON MARXIST"
I love it xD
I'd be for taking away the subsidies tho...
Subsidize these nuts!
@@antonikudlicki1100 Are they actually subsidicing or just not taxin gasoline/diesel? Here in Germany leftist call "not having to pay taxes on something" subsidy. So people are subsidiecied because we only pay 50% taxes, lol
@@keviathan5260 Nope, America spends around 20 Billion dollars subsidizing oil companies, through many modes such a tax breaks and grants.
And that's not to mention the amount of government spending on subsidizing road and highway infrastructure, which is huge.
PragerU: "Americans should be freed to follow thier own rational self interest."
Americans: **follow thier own rational self interest by turning to other forms of transportation**
PragerU: "Not like that though"
PragerU: I need my kickback from the oil and gas companies, so you can't just "walk" or "cycle" where you want to go.
"Everyone should be free to do what I want" - the universal tenet of conservatism
@@VintageToiletsRock "That thing better be using our gas!" - Prager U
@@vaiyt They also have a word for being free to do what they don't want - degeneracy
"low gas prices encourage people to drive more, and buy bigger vehicles, and this is a good thing." - aged like fine wine.
What are you talking about? This concept started in the fifties and it is EVIL
*"and buy bigger vehicles"*
Tell me you're being funded by car companies without telling me.
But, if American neighborhoods are cohesive, and diverse, how will they know who to blindly vote for, each election? 🤔
Well "luckily" Americans have only two choices.
Wouldn't want them socializing. Gives them ideas
Oh yeah, no blind voting shenanigans going on in diverse urban districts. 🤣
@@nahuelkid yeah socializing sounds like socialism which equals communism which equals bad because it's not capitalism
@@reinaldomartinez13 right logic 101
Did she really try to argue that increasing fuel efficiency is a bad thing? Smh....
PragerU is bad enough to me to ask around if we shouldnt report them.
TH-cam does have this option, after all.
It costs only seconds and 0 dollars, so i really dont think we should not do it at least on their phobic videos,
if not more.
Well if you're selling petrol, it's a horrendous thing
@@nenmaster5218
Aight, their videos may be a shit show but reporting them is taking away their right of free speech.
@@grammarnazi3272 Ya sure? Isnt flagging fake-news and even Indoctrination pretty much a Crime of Sorts though?
@@grammarnazi3272 Free speech doesn’t mean that everyone else has to listen to you, it just means that the government can’t tell you what not say. TH-cam isn’t the government, so there is no issue.
She's so obnoxious, it's amazing.
And who even argues seriously that parking lots are better than public parks?
Well they're called car PARKS, so checkmate liberal /s
Someone who needs to park their car
Imagine having a pleasant, nice place in a city. The horror!
@@Dommi1405 I just had a panic attack imagining it
Someone who's on the payroll from major oil industry players, naturally.
Even for PragerU, trying to paint fuel efficiency standards as a bad thing is just laughably stupid. "How dare the government make cars better, the outrage! I want a car that gets 2 miles per gallon like god intended!"
"But why don't you build a train?"
"THERE IS LITERALLY A WAR ON CARS"
same as it always was. wishing people a happy some-other-winter-holiday is a "war on christmas" too.
Imagine if we all own a personal train...
I liked riding BART to and from work.
He stole this 'build a train' stuff from an American you know. From the Americans that saved the Euro assholes from the Nazis.
Lol reminds me of musk's car pods
all of prageru arguments sound like satire. it's really depressing that they're not
I know right! It sounds like it was made by someone to take a piss out of Americans. The fact that they’re being serious here really shows that the jokes Europeans have for Americans aren’t even remotely exaggerated.
@@KasabianFan44 They're not, at all exaggerated. Many Americans are honest about it, but most reich-wingers aren't(because it's their states that contain the most uneducated people, by their own design.....).
Prager U is basically a new series of the old British satire "Brass Eye", except real and not satire
They frame anything that benefits society in the most cartoon supervillain way lol just absolutely disgusted by things like "peace" and "cohesive communities" and "plants"
Maybe they are playing the really long game to reveal that they were joking all along... one can hope
You can go wherever you want, whenever you want to in a car!*
*Assuming you have the funds to keep it in good shape
*Assuming you have the funds to fuel it
*Assuming there isn't traffic
*Assuming there is a road going to where you want to go
*Assuming you have somewhere to park it in the meantime
And if you don't, lobby the government to provide infrastructure and tax credits lol
"These are all tax opportunities!" - The government probably.
Can literally do that on foot
And if you don’t have flat tire or the battery died
@@noxiousvox350 if you want to walk 5 hours a day to do anything then sure you can. And make sure you leave an hour before you need to do anything because that's at least how long it will take you to get anywhere.
As a car enthusiast who loves working on cars and enjoys driving manual transmission, I agree that US cities have the worst planning in the world. Without mass transit, you have to drive everywhere, and everything is so far apart. Actually, it kills the fun of driving a manual when you have no choice but to drive every time. Driving a car should be a treat, an adventure, and something you want to do.
When I lived in South Korea, I loved being able to walk 2 minutes down the street from my apartment to buy what I needed, taking the express bus to Seoul, and I loved taking trains! In Korea, the mass transit is amazing, but more and more people are buying cars. It's not killing car culture. People like to have choices.
When I went to Seoul I usually took a bus, because I didn't want to worry about parking and drive for 3 hours. When I wanted to drive stick shift in the mountains, then I took my old, slow 97 Kia Sephia. It was fun! Driving to work or the grocery store is not the type of driving I want to do every single day! I want to drive on a scenic route, drive spirited on a curvy road, or go somewhere cool.
Cars will always have their place. So, will trains. Now, electric cars, I hate them. They have no stick shift, so they just take the fun out of driving. I just can't drive an automatic or cvt car, sorry! Also, trains are just cooler than Teslas. I appreciate both trains and fun cars.
With that said, cars are fun to learn about, work on, and driving should be something special. Taking a train cross country should also be something special and I prefer it over planes. Walking, taking subway/transit, and bus should be the norm every day when going to work.
America really needs to get back into mass transit, trains, and redevelop the suburbian spraw. I admit it's nice to live in a quiet suburb, but having a local store nearby would be awesome!
Thanks for all the great videos!
It's sad how people always talk about the freedom to drive, and yet, never about the freedom to not drive. (quote from Not Just Bikes)
Freedom to get sick but not the freedom not to get sick.
Completely agree
Or how car culture strips disabled people of their freedoms.
@@bells5234 I'd say kids too but they aren't people haha /s
@@truenews8357 the right to be wrong, but not the right to be correct
Funny thing is that even if I was a car nut more public transportation would still be to my benefit because it would mean less traffic and more comfortable driving
As a car enthusiast I agree with what you’re saying. Also public transportation is just nice to have
bingo
@@sebsim4515 I too love cars and driving, and still advocate for public transport so there are less cars on the road.
I love cars and I have to say that this makes a lot of sense
As long as you don't impose a ridiculously low speed limit in urban areas.
The best part is how apparently you are not at all free when you are walking or cycling, both of which allows you to go anywhere you want, regardless if someone has built a road there or not. A car is the least free of travel options.
Imagine this for suburbia: ebike locally; ride ebike to express public transport line that comes every five minutes.
I'm super weary when people bring up the density argument for better PT. Like mate, increasing catchment zones also helps rake in revenue. Diverting excessive new road funds also helps.
And who knows this might inspire people to push for greater density around transit stops even harder, because they want to walk in an area where there is more humanity.
I disagree that cars are the least free of travel options. I had a car for about a year before the pandemic in my last year of school, and used it to go everywhere. Sure, it was the most expensive way, but I went EVERYWHERE. It enabled me to wake up an hour later for school, go to the gym every day, go see my friends at the drop of a hat, and go to nearby cities and attractions whenever. Fast forward a year and I went to uni, sold the car, and ended up back at home. Now I'm kinda stuck. It takes me two to three times as long to get anywhere by bus just because of my location, meaning that I've not gone to the gym in months, I've seen my friends once or twice all summer (pandemic aside), and I barely go on those trips anymore. While cars certainly aren't "freedom vehicles" they do offer a large degree of freedom, especially when most things are too far for me to reasonably cycle.
@@metagreen1931 Ok, least free was an exaggeration, but it’s also very much a question of city planning and good public transport. In most cities I’ve lived it hasn’t been difficult at all to get wherever you want by public transport, even if it in some cases can take longer than car. The only reason why cars are often fastest is that we’ve prioritized car infrastructure above everything else.
Car is of course great if you live in rural areas where good public transport would be infeasible.
There’s also the option of carpools which gives you the freedom to take a car, but also the freedom to leave the car so you’re not bound by it e.g. when out partying.
@@metagreen1931 Because your area or city is probably designed very poorly. I don't use a car 95% of the year. Warsaw is fantastic. With a cheap little monthly pass I can go anywhere with quick enough, reliable public transportation. Trams, buses, subway, an extensively walkable city center (and city, almost everywhere) Many bike lanes. Heck, just yesterday I met a friend I haven't seen for 2 years and we walked for over 2 hours, then stopped by at a local café in a lovely area.
In the US, in NYC, I was literally at most 1h away from almost every single point in the city. While bike lanes were... lacking, the low speed of traffic generally made it good enough. I was there this summer, and now, with Covid and almost no tourists, it was frankly quite amazing. Without those crushing crowds, I found a new appreciation for just how remarkably decent the public transportation there is... MTA incompetence notwithstanding.
PATH and LIRR aren't half bad, either. A long time car proponent friend caved in and decided to come to our meeting by LIRR and was very positive about it.
@@Olivia-W it is because of my area, yeah. I live somewhat rurally (I'd call it a suburban village - not out of the way but certainly not close to town) meaning that making public transport equivalent to cars is completely infeasible. I'm in Glasgow for uni, and I didn't use my car at all while I was there, that's why I sold it. But that's what cars should be in my mind, an option for people who can't use public transport, due to area or distance from work or whatever. Which largely isn't applicable in well designed cities.
“Cars bring people closer together.”
The families of the 30,000 people killed by cars every year in America would disagree with you.
Nothing like a funeral to induce a family reunion.
I mean, technically, being hit by a car does bring you closer to the driver of the car...
"Families of 30k people killed by cards would disagree"
Prager U: Cars bring people closer to God.
"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot."
-Joni Mitchell
That’s here in the Keys right now lol.
“The parking lot IS paradise!” ~ PragerU
@@JLParent Except when it's full...
Then you gotta make a bigger parking lot!
They cut down a 200 year old Madrone tree to make a bigger parking lot for the McDonalds in my town.
@@collinmc90 shit like that is truly tragic
“Hey let’s check out that dead patch of grass” - describing my Highschool experience in the United States.
Reminds me of hanging out at the gas station convenience store by the arterial road cuz there was nowhere else to walk to after the general store and taco place went out of business
@@jasondaveries9716 I feel so sorry for you :/ we could ride our bikes everywhere as children
We'd smoke cigarettes behind a gas station since we had off campus lunch
@@jasondaveries9716 In slowly starting to get how good I have it. I grew up in a small town just outside a big city. From my house it was 2 minutes to a small forrest and stores, parks and other fun stuff was just a few minutes by bike.
And to think that I was annoyed that the train to the city only came once every 30 minutes...
The mall people hung out at the mall or I don't know drove around in my car hanging out
"a developed country is not where poor people have cars, but rich people take transit" - some person in TH-cam comments
no rich people wont travel in public transport
@@cyclix5314 not in the USA
@@cyclix5314 if public transport was efficient yes they would. Rich people love to save money...
When it comes to trains and planes, at least, poor people can't really even use them, too expensive. If I want to take an amtrak like 50-100 miles it's like 100 bucks. I can drive my car 50-100 miles for 10-20 bucks.
@@cyclix5314 yes they do. Even in places like the UK you can find wealthy people, government ministers etc on public transport
As a car enthusiast, the idea that we should be selling more vehicles, particularly trucks and SUVs, is terrifying. Cars should be works of art meant to be enjoyed on weekend trips or evening drives. Even car enthusiasts hate commuter cars, hate traffic, and hate the average driver.
"Cars permit freedom"
5 minutes later:
"How DARE urban planners give people the freedom not to use cars!"
It's always the same with the alt-right : they don't want freedom at large, they want the specific freedoms to do what they, individually, want to do. Anyone else's freedom doesn't matter.
@Admiral Kipper They are obviously a far right organisation by any sane standards. By American standards maybe they're just considered 'conservative'.
@Admiral Kipper Of course they are : they are so far right they're almost off the map, and the only facts they care about are "alternative facts". And I can say much more absurd things, for example : "president trump".
I mean it's like they don't realize that urban planning is an active choice. In the absence of the post war urban planners who demolished everything, what do they think would have happened? It's not that urban planning is bad, it's that they dislike modern urban planning because it's government meddling making what they dislike, instead of government meddling making what they like...disgusting suburbia
Instead of forcing us to be car dependent, these new urban planners are demanding we should be free to choose! Fuckin commies lolol
If being dependent on a car to get anywhere fun is freedom, then DON'T sign me up
@Admiral Kipper I guess they are alt-right economists with pretty far right social views about immigrants, minorities, black people, prison, social justice, borders, human rights, dignity, etc. They even have a video about how slavery was fine, I think. So yeah, far right, not alt right.
I absolutely LOVE how the “getting rid of parking spaces” graphic put a public park in its place
They really did go for the "nice places bad car good" didn't they
Shows that they really don't care about the environment of the city itself, they just want to keep their existing lifestyle going even if it's so dystopian
The parking lot near me turned into Triangle Junction.
In fairness, a public park existed well before this change, not to mention that Triangle Junction is partially built over a trench carrying what is currently an active freight line (and a corridor that, with some actual effort that doesn't presently exist to any appreciable degree, could reclaim the passenger service it lost about a century ago).
Brought to you by the people who don't want you to have healthcare!
how dare they make the city look nicer
That's because public parks take communities apart.
(heavy sarcasm)
PragerU and many right wing conservatives talk about the “Free market” like it’s some mystical force.
It really is quasi-religious to them.
Yep. If the free market is determined by how we engage with it, and we engage with our money, the those with the most resources have the most control over how it's built. "trust the free market" just means "obey rich people"
It is a complex force of nature. Like a weather system or ocean currents it has core, hard and fast rules but is so vast and has so many inputs and variables that one can ever be certain what exactly will happen.
It is a religion, with a book written centuries ago and a holy person whos words are gospel.
They even have invisible hands that make things happen.
Neo-cons talk about it like they don’t understand economics.
There’s a time and place for everything. Not every important economic activity is profitable, or can be delivered as such, and often the involvement of a neutral third party is required to prevent unfair extractive activity.
Also, planning on a community level scale is usually best done by a combination of different levels of government, and the people and businesses impacted, together. Government intervention can also protect small & medium businesses from predatory corporate practices.
At the same time, government’s responsibility is to foster an economic environment where it’s possible for people to conduct business without the government or corporate influence acting in an extractive, rent-seeking manner.
This obviously requires regulatory oversight, and regulations are fundamental to a functioning free market system. The opposite is extractive, rent-seeking corporates bribing politicians to overlook their activities, and fosters economic stagnation on a local economy level. Further along this scale, command economies (the opposite of free markets) are rife with nepotism and economic stagnation.
Conservatives, basically, are the biggest threat to the free market economy they supposedly love.
"When you get behind the wheel, You are in control, You are free"
Yeah, Unless if you :
*Are drunk
*Are Under the required driving age
*Are Under the influence of drugs
*don't have money for gas
*Don't have money for maintenance
*Are in probation
*Have a D.U.I
*Don't have a driver's license
*Follow speed limits
*Don't have money for a car
*Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam
*Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam
I have a upright comfort bike and it's the best investment of my life. If you're in a bike, You can, Get this; DRIVE ON OPPOSITE WAYS THE CARS DRIVE ON! AND DISOBEY LITERAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS!(As long as you're in the street side) It saved me more money than I can imagine! Get a bike, It gud 10/10
U are also allowed to walk on pedestrian lanes with your bike while smilling smugly at those beta cucks that have to drive 5km more to the nearest U-turn
As a dutch person, I follow this US car drama for comedical reasons
Also it's literally impossible zo get in traffic with bikes. Never happened to me anyway
Prohibition never truly ended. This country's Orwellian laws against drunk drivers can be compared to the 13th amendment's exception for inmate labor.
You don't choose to be a drunk driver. Drunk driving chooses YOU. It's silly to discriminate against drunk drivers.
@@bugseater1literally 1984
more accurately
*Are drunk
*Are Under the required driving age
*Are Under the influence of drugs
*don't have money for gas
*Don't have money for maintenance
*Are in probation
*Have a D.U.I
*Don't have a driver's license
*Follow speed limits
*Don't have money for a car
*Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam
*Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam
*have poor vision
*are in any condition where movement is severely limited
*are paralyzed
*don't have limbs (or any 2 of them)
*are banned from driving
*are incapable of obtaining a car or the money required to get one
*have 3 braincells
*are highly prone to seizures
*are hyperfixated on spoke blur
*are of age yet (informally) restricted from obtaining or driving a car
PragerU is like if the "ignorant American" stereotype became fully sentient and started a YT channel.
Some people are walking stereotypes, so I think that's exactly what happened.
@@user-nk5es9iy8i bruh same
@@user-nk5es9iy8i yes I was agreeing with you but yes I agree
@@Oberon4278 Driving Stereotype since Walking is too comunist
"sentient" feels like more credit than PragerU is due.
My primary arguement for robust public transit is a personal freedom argument: I don't wanna have to be sober to get around my city. Building cities that require you to drive everywhere is a restriction on my basic freedom to alter my state of mind.
Same.. I like to have the freedom to have a beer after work..
if I have to drive home I can’t do that..
With public transport I can get hammered to the brim and still get home safely..
Now THATS freedom
It also restricts anyone under the age of 16!
No, no, you misunderstand, in a truly PragerU free city, drunkenness should not stop you from driving home.
Well said
@@TehAxelius Indeed, it is our freedom to do so ;)
when they were naming all the “bad” things the city’s were doing like removing parking lots and pouring money into public transit it just sounded like a great time
genuinely lol, id love to hear of such occurrences cus it seems to be the opposite always happening
PragerU is soyjack crying
We are the chad YES
The dystopian future where people are more important than cars
They literally replaced a parking lot with a nice green park!
When I was 5 years old, my parents got a car, because they found out, that it was cheaper to drive the 200 kilometres to my grandmother than taking the train. Yes, it took 30 minutes more, but we could save a lot of money when having 4 in the car. Therefore, we stopped taking the train or bus when going outside our city in favour of the car.
However, very quickly another problem came. My mother was the only one, who had a drivers license, so we depended on her, when going anywhere with the car. Unfortunately, she got severe back pain when driving long distances, so we always stopped using the car in several months after driving around in it on a holiday or on a visit to my grandmother.
About two years ago, she was diagnosed with stress and we finally decided to move from our large city of 250.000 people to my grandmother's town of 2800. Here, she quickly recovered and could start working again. Everything here was just a 2 km bike ride away, and when we went to work and school we would all take a ferry to a larger city of 75.000 people.
We started using our car to go on holidays again, and stopped taking public transit completely.
Recently, when having some extra time on my hands, I decided to take the train down to a historic town about half an hour in both car and train, and I realised just how much more relaxing it is to take the train. And how much faster it feels. Normally, when we would drive to the town, it would be half an hour of looking at the fields, but with the train, I got to see the other small communities and people living their life, going home from work, hanging out with other people on the train. I really enjoyed it, just as I enjoyed my ferry trip.
Cars does not make a country seem smaller. You just wait for the trip to end, but with trains, buses and ferries, you enjoy the trip, relax and the time fly by.
The lone fact that you do not need to be sitting in a confined space with one of the occupants constantly attentive when on public transit automatically makes them vastly superior to cars; and there are plenty of other good reasons if you're not convinced.
I live in New York City. Public transportation here is the worst option.
You forgot to mention airplanes, that is also a form of mass transit, unlike trains and city buses, most airplanes are operated by private companies for profit. The personal family airplane or flying car is not a thing yet, so we are still forced to use mass transit for all our air travel, the cost is per passenger however, as is all mass transit, so if you have a family of four, that is four tickets for the train and plane, but for the car, you just have to load them in and start driving.
@@thomaskalbfus2005 I didn't really think of planes while writing, since its such a hassle to use, unlike other forms of public and private transport options. As for the price I mentioned in my comment that the car was cheaper if it carries 4-5 people. If only 1 person is in the car, which is the case the majority of the time. I do believe that we really should invest in getting the families onboard with public transit anyway, just as mass transit planes is the absolute best option for travelling by air.
“In a car, you can go anywhere you want, whenever you want.” Yeah, anywhere you want, as long as it’s on the pre-built pre-decided government funded roads? And as long as you have a license, insurance, and billions of other forms? And as long as you follow every rule of the road? And as long as you have gas supplied to you by companies?
And as long as it's not rush hour. And as long as there is parking. And as long as you're not a child, young teen, disabled person, or very old person.
Excuse me, some of us crafted their own vehicles out of minerals mined by hand, out of their own mountain, uphill both ways!
And at the same work hour. And at the same route to work. At the same route to the groceries.
Maybe you can spice it up in the parking lot.
“In a car, you can go anywhere you want, whenever you want.” Said absolutely no-one that has ever sat in a traffic jam for hours on end. Which seems to be everyone these days.
You forgot "...with whomever you want"
Also prageru: LGBT agenda destroys america (or something along those lines)
“What a historic event this is! Conservatives want to invest in something that’s black”
That killed me omg
This needs to be pinned!
Oh, and leftists are the real snowflakes, remember
--- Adam Something 2021
that was savage
As a black conservative, I'd find your type humourous, if it wasn't so sad how racist you are while using cognitive dissonance to convince yourself that you aren't.
Oh right I forgot, according to your side, I ain't black.
(Technically I'm more of a libertarian but you get my point)
@@datachu Keep simping for conservatives.....they will still hate your guts, and other flat out with you dead or deported. That IS conservatism, in group/out group.
I grew up in the suburbs. As a teen, the only places we had to hang out was random parking lots, or the mall. There’s nothing to do and nowhere to go. It’s horrendously boring.
Yep. And nothing to do that’s free or at least costs $30 or less, especially if you live in an urban area, where’s there’s little to no parks and everything’s overpriced
“Where do you hang out? Where do you go?” As an American that hit more hard than you can imagine. Growing up your parents always tell you go outside and you’re just like go where? There’s no where to go? I feel this even now harder as an adult where I have a car and could go anywhere but there’s no actual places to just meet new people and hang out any large social event is preplanned by people already in a group who may not want any outsiders
You can always drive to a bar, watch some sports on TV, get smashed, and drive home drunk.
If you choose to hang out "somewhere" youll get cited for loitering. Which anyone from outside the US will never understand.
There are no third places in suburban areas
Just drive for fun.
@@FlatEarthKiller yeah but when driving is necessary it ceases to be fun
@@Lumberjack_king yup. When i said for fun, i meant like enjoy scenery or just go anywhere you want, in pushto we call it chakar
I remember these "war on cars" arguments from decades back when my European home town started to build more bike lanes and created car free zones and shopping streets. Especially business owners in those streets were whining and then as their profits went up suddenly everyone calmed down 😂
👏 just amazing
Was it in the Netherlands?
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Austria
@@thewhitefalcon8539 This also happened in the Netherlands, Denmark, and I think parts of Belgium.
It even started to spread further south and east, luckily.
I saw a meme recently, it said 'Why don't you kids go outside and play instead of sitting if front of the screen' then it showed a picture of a stroad filled with traffic and shops baking in the sun with no shade or trees and below it said 'because this is the outside you built'....It really is the 'depressing suburban wasteland' that Not Just Bikes talks about, no local shops because the big chains monopolised them out of business decades ago, just houses, roads and a shit load of cars...
I would love to see that.
The orange pill.
There is also been a movement to encourage parents to strangle their kids by keeping them on their lawn only when supercvised and no outside friends other then the ones from church or maybe school, if parent decides there parents aren't too liberal.
Ironically it's actually the internet that has been the cause of a lot of it. With the internet the mobility of cars loses a lot of it's appeal. You can get niche items without a car because of online shopping and you can get information from anywhere with google. People go outside to get a more genuine experience which the internet can not provide which is what walkable areas are trying to provide.
".It really is the 'depressing suburban wasteland" No that is an urban area, in suburban areas every house has its own yard and there are many more green places for kids to play.
PragerU: "Cars make you free!"
Cars: *Stuck in miles long traffic jam for hours.
At least you didn't have to be subjected to a fixed route and schedule to get somewhere on time.
Until you don’t ;)
@@IK-cf6vn Yeah, you have the freedom to get nowhere in time because you're stuck in a fucking traffic jam.
@@IK-cf6vn yeah you have all the freedom to get fired from work because the traffic gridlock on the freeway made you late for work. *Again!*
Wait, that's the communist Spanish republican flag!
“Brings people together”
Road rage:”I’m not real I’m just a fathom of your imagination”.
oh yes, cars totally bring people together. By putting them in tiny little boxes with wheels that have a tendency to get surrounded by 1 million other tiny little boxes with wheels. yeah, they really foster a sense of community and not a deep hatred for everyone else driving on the road
"figment of your imagination" is the usual way of saying that. Fathom is a unit of distance actually.
They bring people toghether by making everyone hate eachother, thus they are all toghether
on 9/11 we had an example of Air rage when two passenger jets were crashed into the twin towers and one was crashed into the Pentagon, those were air rage incidents also know as terrorism!
Road rage exist not mattering the vehicle, you never have seen road rage with cyclist or skateboarders, where do you live???
Normal people: We should have multiple transportation options.
PragerU: HOW DARE!
having more options takes away from my freedom!
@@arachnophilia427 everyone else has to drive cars too otherwise it's communism
Use whatever mode of transportation you want, just stop making me pay for it
@@shadowfax3505 the only way to transport people en masse is with public infrastructure, and the only way to pay for infrastructure is through taxes. If you don't want to pay for other peoples' transportation, your only real option is tax evasion
@@shadowfax3505 dude we also pay taxes for the roads you fucking drive as well
The freedom to get stuck in traffic and have a heat stroke. Ah, America.
You need to fix your air conditioning in your car.
@@duckdestroyer2412 Should having money to pay a mechanic be requisite for avoiding life-threatening hazards in day-to-day life?
@@LisaBeergutHolst no that's basic budgeting, having enough money to repair things that break. For example, washing machine, oven, or your vehicle. Repairing an air conditioner shouldn't cost more than a few hundred dollars. You can go without it, and probably be fine, but it more of a convenience of life thing.
@@duckdestroyer2412 So I guess all the people living without one those things are just bad at finance? That's a lot of people. Maybe it would be easier if they didn't need to set aside half their income for transportation lol
@@duckdestroyer2412 Also, heatstroke is quite a bit more than an "inconvenience" lmao
I can't get over how they animated a parking lot into a cute little green space with a lake and trees and then tried to make that sound like a bad thing. Green spaces are awesome especially for just taking a chill walk or cruising on a board
Green is the colour of _Shrek!_
You wouldn't want Shrek in your neighbourhood now, would you?!?
@@irinore I absolutely would! Who wouldn't?!
@@essr4580 To be fair I don't think Shrek would want us in _his_ neighbourhood
American conservatives are like real-life Uruk-Hai
I'm a Brit and our car culture is nowhere near as bad as Americans, but it's still mind-blowing spending time in another European nation and experiencing the freedom on not having to drive for the first time
My mom lives in an area where the whole little town is built around a big community center, with a bunch of restaurants, shops, and local businesses. Across the street is a big open park where they have food trucks at the end of each month and often hold craft shows, and when it's not being used people play soccer or frisbee. It's gorgeous, everybody knows everybody else, and super convenient because you can walk or bike everywhere. The only downside is it's expensive as heck, because heaven forbid we have nice things like that here in the US without paying a premium for them.
Places like these exist? Where is this town?
What town is this?
WHAT TOWN? TELL US YOU BASTARD TELL US!
Y'all ever heard of suburbs
@@lesaventuresduncouillu8287 no
"Cars mean freedom."
"What about the poor people that can't afford a car?"
"What is this "poor" you speak of?"
Every conservative knows that poor people aren't supposed to be free. Freedom is something you need to earn by having enough money.
@@Robbedem Well, yes? Money is a reciept on labour. If you work more and contribute to the economy, you get more freedom.
@Абдульзефир If you get paid less than your market worth, you should change jobs. Getting paid less than market is no one elses fault but your own.
Slavery is irrelevant. We are discussing poverty.
@Абдульзефир??? What part of my comment does that sentence respond to? Username checks out i guess.
@Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Who cares about what some deluded russian dude has to say though? Especially when what he says is demonstrably false?
As an American, I can tell you that I have never felt freer than spending $0 to walk 30 minutes to work every day. These people sound like teenagers that just got their first car. I never feel less free than when I’m driving
I walk 50 min to and from work 4 days a week. Freed me of 30kg of excess body fat. For free!
One weird trick... diet-pushers and fitness centers hate it.... yada yada ;-P
@@vikiai4241lol I hope that’s a joke but walking regularly is pretty good for your health obviously eat healthier too but walking can help
When I'm driving I feel so much free than when I'm in a bus or a taxi, now while I'm cycling I feel EXTRA FREE but also EXTRA INSECURE
@@vikiai4241 Good for u but its not good for you if your only physical activity is walking or running, physical education = health, and walking/running is like 10% of the whole world, so you should indeed visit a fitness center or get an instructor
@@martinjugolin2087 you feel insecure because of cars plus less cars means driving is better
What I found funny was that on car culture's grave, the woman was shedding tears but the man wasn't. Presumably because men don't cry. 😂
Lol, I didn't even notice that!
Can’t wait for Prager U’s video “The War on War”
The war on the war on terror
The war on the war on drugs (Spoiler: high people are winning)
Oh, you wait...Now that the US pulled out of Afghanistan, that video is probably already in the can.
They sort of already did that with their video about how -war profiteers- private mercenary companies are totally gonna end Americas‘s forever wars in no time, because something something private companies are better at... destroying their own business model, apparently.
the meta war
"Conservatives wanting to subsidise something that's black?" I died.
"Americans are explorers"? Half of Americans don't even have a passport.
Even if that wasn't the case, wtf do they mean by exploring in a car. Cars limit you to roads. Even "off-road" vehicle are still extremely limited by terrain, trees, structures, etc.
Out of all the adventuring I've done, so little of it has been in a car. It's been on bikes, hikes, kayaks, ATVs, zip-lines, and snowboards. The only thing the car does is get me to the start of the adventure, and that's only because it's often the only option.
Also, biking or any of those things is always awesome in a new place, but driving in an unfamiliar place is stressful and sucks. And I've never had to worry about another kayaker drinking and paddling, bumping into my kayak, and killing me and my entire family.
And many don't even leave their own towns!
@@TheAwesomes2104 The most fun I have exploring a city is on foot. Walking into a sideroad and see whats behind the next corner. To look into the nooks and crannies of the place. In a car you can't leave the road and are to busy with not ramming others to see what's around you.
And the other half with passports don't even travel besides going to their local McDonalds.
there are americans that don't believe new mexico is a state. *new mexico.* a *part of the continental us.*
My biggest argument for bicycles over cars is that you can't take a car to a skatepark and do sick jumps.