Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again

Our world is built up of roads and cars to get us to our destination! But what about cycling and even walking? Have we been brainwashed to think that the car is always king?

Si goes on a deep dive into just how we are convinced to think that modern car culture is acceptable in our lives!

00:00 Over the last 100 years people have been brainwashed!
01:08 The psychology and politics behind it all
02:19 Motonormativity
07:05 How our built in environments are part of the problem as well
10:43 Once you see it, you can't unsee it!
11:24 The politics and laws
16:28 What can be done to tackle 'Motonormativity'?

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What are your thoughts on 'Motonormativity'? 🚘

[mctrials]

"Cars kill pedestrians a lot"

"Well yeah, but lets be honest, its cyclists fault that they do"

Mind blown.

[justinlangley]

If any video was bound to make me angry....The unjustified anger towards cyclists in the UK is insane. Imagine thinking someone on a bike is more dangerous than a car.

[messi]

The mental gymnastics of "cars only kill people because bikes forced them to swerve"...

[pedrokozlakowski]

I'm a cyclist in Brazil and it amazes me to see how much of this culture can be 'universal'. Many of the main arguments are almost exactly the same...it really just confirms that we live in this 'car dictatorship', where cars are symbols of power, wealth and status.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, Si, it really takes some guts to expose this to the internet.

[joeAnon]

38 seconds in and I already lost it!!! Did this lady just say that people are being pushed into the car lane because they are trying to get out of the way of cyclist?!?! ‼️😡

[connorparadis]

Si's journey from pro cyclist to raging urbanist is my favorite political character arc of all time. Great video, GCN!

[ryanwhitehouse]

Just got honked at while I was cycling home with my 9 and 7 year old by an obese guy in a huge 4x4 because we dared to slightly impede his journey on a narrow suburban road. It’s a shame this brilliant video won’t be seen by him.

[handleless]

After having a child I realized that even our quiet neighborhood is a danger zone. The first thing you need to teach your child is to stand aside for cars. Even after this, you still always need to be around to intervene just in case. Why isn't anybody instead teaching the drivers to drive at pedestrian speed when they see children?

[blake-glwn]

Forgot to mention the road rage, honking and tailgating. Such aggression would never be tolerated normally.

[iamsemjaza]

That woman who went through wild mental gymnastics to still blame bikes for deaths caused by cars... woo... mental.

[pkomarek]

It's good to discover that I'm not the only person looking at our streets thinking how much more pleasant our cities would be without all the noise, signals, signs, fumes, concrete and asphalt that go along with cars. My family think I'm a little looney when I ask them to stop for a moment and picture the street we're on with no car-related signs!

That said I probably am a little looney, but for different reasons.

[bikerguy]

'Regular' GCN is great, with the fun (ridiculous?) challenges, tests of endurance, equipment reviews, etc. This video feels like a new beast entirely, cycling journalism, and I am all for it.

[farmerg]

As someone who, just the other day, was on the receiving end of a motorist winding their window down and yelling at me to 'get off the road!' purely for nothing more than I was just there and he had to wait awhile to overtake. Those first few people have me absolutely raging.

The stupidity and sheer ignorance is ASTOUNDING.

[Swoxx]

Most important video by GCN in a while, maybe ever. Hope it spreads far and wide.

[qianzyl]

This makes me glad that I live in Copenhagen where bicycles are always given top priority.

A few years back, they had to do maintenance on a split bike/car bridge, and instead of compromising the bike lanes or reroute the bikes, the bridge got closed off for cars for a couple of weeks, and the car-section of the bridge was converted to temporary bike lanes during the maintenance of the bike-part of the bridge, as it was more important to keep the bikes flowing than the cars.

[roivosemraiva]

I removed myself from the CAR-CENTRIC CULTURE twenty five years ago. All happened, After a car accident with a truck. Afterwards, I gave my car away-- i felt the car was a monster which needed to be fed daily, and would drain my finances-- just to get around. Realized, that one day the car culture would KILL ME !!. Change of PLAN. i cycle to work daily and live close to where i can walk to shops, hospitals and restaurants. on weekends, i cycle to remote areas of historical interest. A far less stressful way to LIVE. The opposition from friends and family were huge. Everyone does accept the car culture as a way of living in the modern world. Growing up in the Antilles-Caribbean island where motor vehicles were only owned by the rich, gave an insight that vehicles are slowly killing us along with our planet. THANK YOU for bringing up this great topic . I always wondered if i was the only one out there---without a CAR..

[whatwelearned]

People will go to spectacular lengths to defend things that are convenient to them

[alricmarchand]

People can’t see that bicycles have to work in a world made for cars. That’s part of the problem. Streets are made for cars, this HAS to change.

[cartographer]

As someone who has spent the last decade learning about how deeply car culture has brainwashed us, the content of this video was nothing new to me. But I have to give massive praise and gratitude for how well this video presented this information. I'm hoping it helps people challenge motornormativity.