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>• The most obvious: People who need to be chaperoned: children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Children don't need to be chaperoned. In Japan, chi
by magduf 7y ago
>• The most obvious: People who need to be chaperoned: children, the elderly and people with disabilities.
Children don't need to be chaperoned. In Japan, children as young as 4 go on errands to the local store to buy things for their parents, and children as young as 6/7 walk themselves to school.
>• Following on the previous point: Going out with the whole family as a single unit, with provisions for taking care of infants etc. right there.
A family can easily walk together in a city, take a subway together, etc. People in other countries seem to have no trouble carrying "provisions for infants" in a bag with them.
>• Privacy for groups of people, with group activities (e.g. playing music, making out) confined to the automobile's enclosure.
I don't see how privacy when making out is some kind of urgent need in society. Get a room. Or go to a public park. Seriously?
- Razengan 7y ago> In Japan This is what I meant by my reply to the other comment: Not all cultures/societies are the same. It also happens to be the explanation for the other points.
- magduf 7y agoWell if your culture is so utterly broken that you feel the need to "chaperone" your children everywhere, then maybe you need to fix your broken culture. Japan and Western Europe both show that you don't need cars the way you do in America, and trying to handwave it away with a lame excuse like "well, cultures are different" isn't helping anything.