Americans are losing the ability to walk
Americans are losing the ability to walk
I feel like at that distance, getting in the car, starting it up, parking and getting out again probably literally takes more time than just walking
on the other hand, that road looks like a nightmare for pedestrian crossing...
this was my thought as well. looks like speeds of 45mph+, and possibly four lanes of traffic. i’ve been hit at that speed (in a crosswalk, no less) and suffered a fractured pelvis. fuck cars, indeed.
A few things:
- Why were they filming?
- If it’s real, is this a place that sells heavy or bulky things?
Why were they filming?
My read was this was a worker who has seen this before, and probably even made fun of the coworker or customer. Even for car lovers that's a distance people would mock.
This could be fake, but I grew up in an area where people would take their cars to get to the mailbox at the end of particularly long driveways. I have no trouble believing this.
This. I've known loads of people who will drive from store to store in a grocery store strip mall situation, where there's a few stores/restaurants attached.
In fact, I don't know anybody who doesn't do that. It weirds me out everytime - even before my car died it seemed dumb as shit to walk to the car, drive two rows over, walk back to the other store.
I'm guessing this is a trip they make regularly, otherwise they wouldn't have known to film it.
“Hey, George! I’m at the Starbucks on your corner. Y’know what would be funny? You drive your van over here and park right in front. I’ll video you the whole way. It will look totally spontaneous and it will be an awesome Tik Tok. Wait, wait, let me stand in the window so I get a good shot. Ok, I’m focused on you, start the van!”
Leaving the country and moving to a marginally walkable town you can lose 30ish lbs in a year basically by accident.
I've had a bad hip since getting hit with a degenerative disease when I was a child. My insurance won't give me a hip replacement until I'm older (I'm in my 50s). This bad hip has fucked with my back to the point that most of the past 20 years has been a hell of chronic pain. On bad days I could see doing what the van people did. But on a decent day, I'd force myself to walk that.
just watched Mindhunt (Unabomber story) and they discuss this idea: cars appeared with the promise of freedom (freedom to go wherever you want), but they ended up reshaping the cities in a way that you actually become less free, as you can't go anywhere or do anything within walking distance (you're obliged to use a car).
i'm currently reading the books this guy wrote while incarcerated (he wrote some while being 72+ years old, and had two decades to develop his thoughts on society and technology), and a lot of it resonates with our current realisation (in the context of climate change) that everything we've done over the past decades was completely wrong.
Imagine WALL-E, but instead of floating seats, they have cars.
Have you seen America? Americans have long since lost the desire to walk because walking in a car's world sucks.
It's true, I tried walking and my legs fell off.
Walking: Not even once.
Maybe they have agoraphobia.