Cars as Street Litter

Commenters analogize parked cars on public streets to litter or abandoned dockless vehicles like bikes and scooters, critiquing the hypocrisy in tolerating car parking while complaining about other urban clutter.

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mavhc • Aug 31, 2018 • View on HN

Cars, parked badly, you're on the right track..... homeless people = litter?, oh dear.

travisjungroth • Sep 17, 2022 • View on HN

The cars are towed away from legal spots.

tshaddox • Feb 20, 2023 • View on HN

People give a shit with cars too. In some places you’ll get towed quickly for putting your car somewhere a homeowner doesn’t like. And obviously if cars were easier to move people would absolutely shove them out of the way.

liminal • Dec 4, 2020 • View on HN

Street parking is car littering. Put your car away when you're not using it.

WhaleBiologist • Nov 21, 2012 • View on HN

It would be awesome to call a random car any time you want, but I hate to think of the mess some people would leave in it once they were done with it.

trgn • Dec 10, 2025 • View on HN

that's great. because those cars trash the city.

LukaD • Dec 5, 2018 • View on HN

> dumping them anywhere they pleaseLike cars? That doesn't seem to bother anyone.

pmontra • Sep 7, 2023 • View on HN

Can't they be creative and put all of them in some place where they won't be used? Example, the emergency lane of highways, roads where nobody parks, etc.

beambot • Feb 1, 2018 • View on HN

Similar to those people who abuse public roads to park their private vehicles curbside.

aww_dang • Mar 26, 2021 • View on HN

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/That's a problem. Perhaps cars shouldn't be driving around empty?