#bigcar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigcar, aggregated by home.social.
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The car-road complex, Big Car is like the military-industrial complex
Saving Ourselves from Big Car, David Obst >>
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/saving-ourselves-from-big-car/9780231210423/"Big Car is a confederation of industries such as gasoline, auto manufacturing, car insurance, lobbyists, asphalt producers, tire producers, and others, who work together to push a lifestyle that has made us all dependent on their products...The “American Dream” had become the world’s nightmare."
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David Obst in Conversation with Renee Bales About Saving Ourselves from Big Car
https://cupblog.org/2025/10/07/david-obst-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-saving-ourselves-from-big-car/
#cars #roads #MobilityDesign #suburbs #SettlerSociety #FossilFuel #AmericanDream #BigCar #CarMinds #petromasculinity #CarFreeZones #climate #MassMortality #EV #MaaS -
Never imagined a 1980s bike ride would help someone's 2023 YouTube car history video!
#weirdcarmastodon #Lancia #BigCar
https://www.robincapper.net/personal/2023/10/the-lancia-delta-big-car-youtube-and-me.html
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It seemed like a good idea at the time: 9 car designs that went nowhere - Enlarge (credit: Michael Reinhard | Getty Images)
Ford Motor C... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1972779 #cadillacfleetwood #coal-poweredcar #twin-enginecar #amphibiouscar #badinventions #floatingcar #carhistory #cartercar #flyingcar #fordedsel #features #steamcar #catboat #citroen #coalcar #bigcar #cars
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CW: Long thread/11
UAW workers are engaged in tactical striking, shutting down key parts of the supply chain on a rolling basis, making the 90-day strike fund stretch *much* farther:
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-18-labors-militant-creativity/
In this project, they are greatly aided by #BigCar's own relentless pursuit of profit. The automakers - like every monopolized, financialized sector - have stripped all the buffers and slack out of their operations.
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CW: Long thread/24
The fact that cars score so badly on privacy is especially ironic given the campaign #BigCar waged against the 2020 #Massachusetts #RightToRepair ballot initiative, in which car manufacturers held themselves out as the *defenders* of driver privacy from unscrupulous third parties who couldn't be trusted to handle the vast troves of data your car collects with every hour that God sends:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms
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CW: Long thread/10
#BigCar has loaded our rides up with so much surveillance gear that they were able to run scare ads opposing #Massachusetts's #RightToRepair ballot initiative, warning Bay Staters that if third parties could access the data in their cars, it would lead to their literal *murders*:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms
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CW: #youtube Cars channels
Channels i do love dedicated to Cars history.
#BigCar
https://www.youtube.com/@BigCar2 -
Big Car is a video channel about the history of cars, including famous models like the Delorean, quirky stuff like nuclear cars, and culturally significant moments such as the first black car company founder. You can follow at:
➡️ @bigcar
If the videos aren't visible on your instance yet, you can see them at https://tilvids.com/accounts/bigcar/videos
#BigCar #Car #Cars #History #CarHistory #Automobiles #Auto #Automotive #Autos #Automobile #Technology #Videos #PeerTube #PeerTubers
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Big Car is a PeerTube channel about cars and automotive history. You can follow at:
➡️ @bigcar
The complete set of videos is visible through PeerTube at https://tilvids.com/accounts/bigcar/videos
#BigCar #CarHistory #Cars #Car #Automobiles #Automobile #Automotive #Motoring #History #Auto #Autos #Technology #Videos #PeerTube #PeerTubers