Minor rant. I got new tires last year. Today i went to get my oil changed and while I was there I asked for my tires to be rotated. They found a puncture of a nail or something right on the edge so the patch would need to be on the side wall which no one does. The only place around that sold used tires doesn’t do that anymore. If i wanted to get it fixed it was going to cost me $200 to replace the tire. I did not drive in any crazy places, just got unlucky enough that my personal 2 ton death machine found this tiny little piece of metal that I wouldn’t have even had a chance to see and avoid, and got it stuck in a place that’s apparently unfixable.
On top of all the ways car culture has destroyed our landscapes and controls our cities, the car is designed in such a way to be the biggest financial burden possible. What other thing do we have where you can use it as intended, but there’s a decent chance for the equivalent of a splinter to make your hand stop working?!
Plug it and send it. If you’re not crazy speedster and doesn’t drive very long distance every day, and it’s not directly on the side wall, the steel belt will hold the plug and you can keep using it until it leak again, which then you might decide to change it or…plug it again.
No joke? A minor cut on my right index and middle fingers, and it will effectively stop me from doing my job of fixing car.
But yes, i do agree with what you mean. We build a society where car is needed and you have to buy car, and car is expensive so it eat into your salary, and if you cannot keep up the payment your car will repo-ed, and since you don’t have a car you need public transport, and if your area doesn’t even have a consistent bus schedule(if there is bus at all) you will need a bike, and if you ride a bike you will be ridiculed for it and accused of slowing traffic, and if they’re not being careful you will lose your life.
There’s no difference between people holding Motonormativity mindset and people with Antisocial Personality Disorder.
The difference is that society caters to carbrains but stigmatises the neurodivergent