i mean your insurance is supposed to cover the fees of tracting the car to the first garage, and pay you a taxi or whatever
isn't that a thing in Murica
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We call that roadside assistance and many people do not have it as it is not required. Manny more people don't know they have it. Actually some phone companies include it in their plans, I've also seen it as a feature on some credit cards. But if you don't think about it, you forget you have it.
American car insurance covers collision damage from other cars or external factors. It doesn't cover mechanical failures. You can get extended warranty coverage, both from your car dealer or from third parties, but this is usually not financially worthwhile.
oh. I do get coverage for all failures & replacement car for about 110€/month
Insurance in America paying for something
Columbus, isn't that where that school shooting happened?
Are you thinking of Columbine?
Do you have any idea how little it narrows it down?
I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.
But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:
"North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn't have better mass transit coverage, but that's still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America."
Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.
Hell, just needing a jump start becsuse your battery died can be a PITA if you have to rely on strangers.
Columbus is special. It's a 15 minute city by car outside rush hour. But gods help you if you don't have a car. The bus comes like every hour.
I spent years there trying to convince people that it needs light rail
Looks like you had a really good light rail system up until the late '70s?
https://allcolumbusdata.com/rail-transportation-history/
I'm assuming Judge Doom got involved at that point and paved over the lines
That looks more like they had a role in the national rail lines and trams, before proposing a really good light rail system and continuously changing their minds to oppose it. Which is exactly what I'd always heard. "Rail is too expensive and difficult and it doesn't work, we've tried and it keeps getting proposed and shot down"
Cars (like any technology under capitalism) are meant to keep people dependent, desperate, and exploitable.
Aren't trams, trains and bikes technology?
They don't want that there.
fans? books? phonographs? tractors? guns?
Definitely yes for tractors, you should see John Deere's business practices and walled garden of maintenance and repairability! Peak capitalism right there.
This is naiive and dumb (like a lot of posts in this community).
If you drove to the grocery store, then you almost certainly have more groceries than are going to be comfortable to carry back by hand.
I mean if you can walk to the grocery store in a reasonable amount of time you'll be able to divide those groceries over multiple visits and not have to deal with this.
here in sweden we have also have this unique invention called a "handcart" that lets you transport more things while walking
how is anyone supposed to carry more than 5 gallons of water by hand? or bulk flour? large watermelons? half cows of meat?
Why would you need to carry 5 gallons of water or half a cow of meat? Are you living in the post apocalyptic world? You typically get water from the tap in your house and buy meat from the cow pre butchered.
Not to mention, cargo bikes are a thing.
Not just cargo bikes. I've got a folding bike (small apartment) with two panniers and a backpack. Sure it's not car level but its pretty good for grabbing groceries.
And it should be noted, Columbus has a pretty bad food desert problem.
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I live next door to a grocery store, and a 2m walk from multiple green grocers. I live the walking grocery lifestyle.
But there are still situations where I have to drive to the store to pick up a large amount of supplies. Like say, when hosting a birthday party, or wanting to pick supplies up at a grocery store that doesn't have exorbitant prices.
With the post indicating that it was a kid’s birthday, I thought the same thing. They may be buying supplies for an entire party. Walking home in summer heat carrying a cake (that should probably be refrigerated) doesn’t sound easy, but add in the kids (are they big enough to help carry things? Or are the kids so little that they need to be carried?) and the rest of the supplies the family bought, and it easily adds up. Then we have roads that aren’t designed for walking, no public transit options, and who knows how far they had to travel to get back home.
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There's a big difference between what's "comfortable to carry back by hand" and "what's feasible to carry to a bus stop 100 metres outside the store, and then 400 metres from where the bus drops you off to your home". That's if we're assuming a situation where you did drive to the store, planning to drive home, but an emergency means you can't drive the return leg.
But also, if you do have good public transport, it becomes much easier to adjust your schedule to more frequent, smaller shops, where it's not just feasible but easy to carry the groceries. Or in a good city for cycling, to drop the groceries in your paniers, basket, or even full-on cargo bike.
Nobody in NYC can buy groceries because they don't have cars. Cars are the only way to get groceries home.
We use rolly carts in NYC and make more frequent trips. It's also not uncommon to stop by Trader Joe's or the supermarket on your way home. The best carts are those with the weird tri-wheels that go up and down stairs.
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