[meme] Car brains, citing vague "freedom of movement," often say that it should be OK to run over protesters on highways. In turn, it should be legal to set fire to cars parked in bike lanes.

I don't think I understand. You want me to roll the dice with my life going around their car, so they can have an easier time getting coffee?

Great info, nice to meet you too.

Yeah, that sounds really nice. I work construction so almost every site is hard to reach with public transportation or, too far for biking.

My best option is to get a very fuel efficient vehicle or, a motorcycle lol

I don't. I want regulations and fines.

But where I live you will get a hefty fine for parking in a bike lane, and after some repeated offenses you'll be sent for a driver's re-education with your license being suspended till you're done. So, I do occasionally see a car being parked in a bike lane. And I don't wanna burn them. I remember I voted for the right party in the last elections, and that I live in the country where law and order prevail, and that the douche will get what he deserves.

In the meantime drivers around me have the ability to see that my lane is blocked, and I have the ability to signal with my hand that I need to merge. We respectfully resolve me cycling around the parked car and I continue my journey.

It appears to me you live in a place where laws really don't work, and so you feel desperate enough to justify property damage to those who don't abide by some laws that you find very important. It's a very dangerous trope. And it rarely leads to better societies.

Ha, I get it. Lots of stuff here is posted super seriously. It's easy to incite this community where it spills over into others.

I suppose the joke part of this didn't sink in. I refer to my earlier comment about lack of coffee. :)

Ever try blowing up a car and burn your mouth on the exhaust? No, be reasonable…you set it on fire!

I would say the very second passenger car traffic exceeds the environmental impact of the cruise industry. How much environmental damage does Carnival Cruise Lines do compared to all the highway traffic in the United States? We're talking an entirely recreational industry here, if all cruise ships disappeared tomorrow society would keep right on rolling. Cases of norovirus would decrease.

You want passenger rail to increase in the United States? Great. Let's start with Amtrak's website. I live within walking distance of an active Amtrak station. Several times in my life I've had a want or need to travel cross country, and it occurred to me "I wonder if I could take the train." The answer, inevitably, is no. I go to Amtrak's website, pick a starting station and a destination station, and usually they outright can't plan a trip between those locations. Not even capable of saying things like "take the Silver Star to Grand Central station in New York, wait 8 hours, then take the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago." It proved to be less work on my part to drive, fly as a passenger on an airliner, and fly as pilot of a Cessna, than take the train in this country.

And what part of that is my personal fault?

The difference between a traffic jam and protestors blocking traffic is intent.

I take it none of you passed high school civics?

So does forcing someone to stop their vehicle and only proceed on foot count as grand theft auto?

Surely we're talking about felonies here, and since it's being done by a group you can add conspiracy as well.

So I ask again, did the protesters just steal a car?

So its robbery then.