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By not knowing how to drive something, you are losing an important ability. Your reach will be 3 or 4 miles at most, and over time this passive "I just want to

By not knowing how to drive something, you are losing an important ability. Your reach will be 3 or 4 miles at most, and over time this passive "I just want to [_____], do it for me" mentality sets in. And for what? just not to drive? to have more 20min available to check your Twitter stream? Remember, you are choosing to be ignorant in a very important aspect of modern live, and i guess only those who at some point were deprived of it realize their importance.

amit_m 14y ago
Seriously? Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car. It's not good for very long distances and not good for very dense urban areas where traffic is slow and parking is lacking. It can't drive in rural areas (unless you have a sturdy jeep) and it costs a lot of money. Also, it has a non-negligible probability to kill you along the way. The modern car is not some one-true solution to transportation, it's great success in the US has a lot to do with the patterns of suburban sprawl and to destruction of the rail system by the car manufacturers. I suspect the car is going out of fashion as people move more and more into dense cities.
- PedroBatista 14y ago
  Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car because they can't afford one. "I suspect the car is going out of fashion as people move more and more into dense cities." Really? millions and millions of chinese people moved to massive urban areas and the first thing they buy when they earn some money is a car or a motorcycle, making China the biggest auto market in the world around 2010/11. Pretty much the same pattern with the "BRIC"s Look, everywhere outside the same old cosmopolitan places where the reality distortion field is too strong, people will own a car and they will make roads and bridges so they can happily drive them.

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By not knowing how to drive something, you are losing an important ability. Your reach will be 3 or 4 miles at most, and over time this passive "I just want to

by PedroBatista 14y ago

amit_m 14y ago
Seriously? Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car. It's not good for very long distances and not good for very dense urban areas where traffic is slow and parking is lacking. It can't drive in rural areas (unless you have a sturdy jeep) and it costs a lot of money. Also, it has a non-negligible probability to kill you along the way. The modern car is not some one-true solution to transportation, it's great success in the US has a lot to do with the patterns of suburban sprawl and to destruction of the rail system by the car manufacturers. I suspect the car is going out of fashion as people move more and more into dense cities.
- PedroBatista 14y ago
  Most of the world's population doesn't drive a car because they can't afford one. "I suspect the car is going out of fashion as people move more and more into dense cities." Really? millions and millions of chinese people moved to massive urban areas and the first thing they buy when they earn some money is a car or a motorcycle, making China the biggest auto market in the world around 2010/11. Pretty much the same pattern with the "BRIC"s Look, everywhere outside the same old cosmopolitan places where the reality distortion field is too strong, people will own a car and they will make roads and bridges so they can happily drive them.