I’ve wondered this for a while, is a car dependant society creating a general senae of selfishness?
Like if you walk everywhere, I feel your behaviour will be rounded out via interactions with others, but in a car you’re removed from seeing the human effect your actions have, it allows you to detach your humanity because it happens outside your cage, you’re only concerned for what’s happening inside thr cage.
Not everyone obviously, cycling around the overwhelming majority of drivers are all good, but as a general trend I do wonder
If you only drive from the early years, you have no idea how others feel when walking, riding a bicycle.
Your car fucks with pedestrian, cycle infrastructure. The best example, traffic lights - who has the priority?
I’ve wondered this for a while, is a car dependant society creating a general senae of selfishness?
Like if you walk everywhere, I feel your behaviour will be rounded out via interactions with others, but in a car you’re removed from seeing the human effect your actions have, it allows you to detach your humanity because it happens outside your cage, you’re only concerned for what’s happening inside thr cage.
Not everyone obviously, cycling around the overwhelming majority of drivers are all good, but as a general trend I do wonder
Im pretty sure there are a numer of studies that show exactly what you wrote.
Gas fumes are changing brain chemistry?
If you only drive from the early years, you have no idea how others feel when walking, riding a bicycle.
Your car fucks with pedestrian, cycle infrastructure. The best example, traffic lights - who has the priority?