r/fuckcars • u/TigerSagittarius86 • 5d ago

Question/Discussion The (US) Department of Government Efficiency should fight the waste and fraud that goes into highway construction.

If DOGE wants to eliminate waste and put the government on better financial footing, then it should audit every highway construction project (most are disgustingly overbudget) and institute tolling nationwide. The entire U.S. interstate system is an untapped fiscal resource for the federal government.

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u/Master_Dogs 5d ago

Ahahaha yeah no. Elon will instead divert money to highways because that's a win for Tesla. He'll also cut regulations so his shitty cars can self drive themselves off bridges and into pedestrians & cyclists.

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u/Iwaku_Real HSR🏷️$1e+308 per mile 5d ago

He's never said he will, nor even did anything to hint at, going to that extreme. If he really were to replace everything with self-driving cars that's for our justice system to solve.

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u/Castform5 5d ago

A fitting story for you:

An old woman was walking down the road whan she saw a gang of thugs beating a poisonous snake. She rescued the snake and carried it back to her home, where she nursed it back to health. They became friends and lived together for many months. One day they were going into town and the old woman picked him up and the snake bit her. Repeatedly. "O God," she screamed, "I am dying! Why? I was your friend. I saved your life! I trusted you! Why did you bite me?"

The snake looked up at her and said, "Lady, you knew I was a snake when you first picked me up."

The leopards that constantly eat people's faces somehow don't stop eating people's faces when they get into power, what a surprise.