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The difference is practice. After driving for some years you get good at it and need much less effort. Then it becomes more enjoyable.

pavlov 3y ago
Maybe I just don’t need to drive enough to unlock that. On average I do a 4-hour roundtrip every month or so, and that’s all. It’s regular enough to make the drive feel boring, but doesn’t create the daily practice that is central to making progress in most activities. I don’t feel like forcing it either because public transport is so much more convenient in the city.
- yurishimo 3y ago
  I think the other commenter is correct; you probably don’t have enough practice (which is fine). I’ve been driving since I was 15 (almost 30) and have driven hundreds of thousands of miles at this point. I’ve also ridden motorcycles about 30k miles. Driving is what i do when i get upset or stressed and need to clear my head. The worst part about it is the monetary cost. I moved to Europe and fuel is way more expensive here. I’m trying to get better at coping with long walks but sometimes i just need to drive!
- thworp 3y ago
  It's a matter of practice for sure. I started noticing that driving started becoming second nature around 40k km driven. Now (>150k driven) it's about 90% subconscious.
lanstin 3y ago
not for every one. i am US born, driving forty years now, entire decades with long commutes during which my various skills improved a lot, but its just not that fun. i am not free to direct my attention as i wish, even for the outside scenes one can't let your eyes deeply take in the fog rolling over the mountain like you can on a bike or from a train seat, much less stop to pick up some oxious trash or take that half formed intuition into a good software idea or parenting plan. even light rail with a window seat and wifi is infinitely more enjoyable, for me. biking will have times like that, and you can't read while biking, but there are always big periods of safety and silence while biking, and you can stop and stretch and take a pic and and sip your water so much more easily than from a car. and you can't avoid the touch of the breeze on your cheek or the smells of the tree sap and the meals being prepared and the garbage. So alive.
OkayPhysicist 3y ago
I think there's also some difference between whether you learned to drive before or after you gained an appreciation for your own mortality. Teenagers who get their license tend to do some level of stupid stuff, and it helps define what you're capable of behind the wheel. If you always have driven safely (because you're a mature adult who understands you could kill yourself or others), then the "what can I do with my car" border lies in an unknown space going outwards from normal commuter driving. If you spent your teenage years canyon racing, or speeding down the street at 2 am, etc, you know that you're capable of a lot more difficult driving than your day to day.

pavlov 3y ago

Maybe I just don’t need to drive enough to unlock that. On average I do a 4-hour roundtrip every month or so, and that’s all. It’s regular enough to make the drive feel boring, but doesn’t create the daily practice that is central to making progress in most activities. I don’t feel like forcing it either because public transport is so much more convenient in the city.

yurishimo 3y ago
I think the other commenter is correct; you probably don’t have enough practice (which is fine). I’ve been driving since I was 15 (almost 30) and have driven hundreds of thousands of miles at this point. I’ve also ridden motorcycles about 30k miles. Driving is what i do when i get upset or stressed and need to clear my head. The worst part about it is the monetary cost. I moved to Europe and fuel is way more expensive here. I’m trying to get better at coping with long walks but sometimes i just need to drive!
thworp 3y ago
It's a matter of practice for sure. I started noticing that driving started becoming second nature around 40k km driven. Now (>150k driven) it's about 90% subconscious.

lanstin 3y ago

not for every one. i am US born, driving forty years now, entire decades with long commutes during which my various skills improved a lot, but its just not that fun. i am not free to direct my attention as i wish, even for the outside scenes one can't let your eyes deeply take in the fog rolling over the mountain like you can on a bike or from a train seat, much less stop to pick up some oxious trash or take that half formed intuition into a good software idea or parenting plan. even light rail with a window seat and wifi is infinitely more enjoyable, for me. biking will have times like that, and you can't read while biking, but there are always big periods of safety and silence while biking, and you can stop and stretch and take a pic and and sip your water so much more easily than from a car. and you can't avoid the touch of the breeze on your cheek or the smells of the tree sap and the meals being prepared and the garbage. So alive.

OkayPhysicist 3y ago

I think there's also some difference between whether you learned to drive before or after you gained an appreciation for your own mortality. Teenagers who get their license tend to do some level of stupid stuff, and it helps define what you're capable of behind the wheel. If you always have driven safely (because you're a mature adult who understands you could kill yourself or others), then the "what can I do with my car" border lies in an unknown space going outwards from normal commuter driving. If you spent your teenage years canyon racing, or speeding down the street at 2 am, etc, you know that you're capable of a lot more difficult driving than your day to day.