> Driving is still very much a thing that many teenagers are interested in. > Myself, and most of my friends grew up going on road trips with parents and now w

> Driving is still very much a thing that many teenagers are interested in. > Myself, and most of my friends grew up going on road trips with parents and now we're starting to take them ourselves. > we feel no need to own that car, it can just as easily be a parent's. > buying a car doesn't provide much value to me I must say that many adults (older than you, but younger than the boomers) feel exactly the same. Driving is fun. Traveling is fun. No amount of web browsing and online social networking can replace the actual, physical experience of traveling and seeing the country for yourself. Moreover, there are so many cool places in America that you can only get to by driving. So the road trip is definitely alive and well. And yet, many people in their 30s and 40s have chosen to forgo car ownership. Because they aren't going on road trips all time. They rent a vehicle when they need one, or maybe lease a car for a while. This is the grown-up equivalent of borrowing your parent's car, and it comes with all the same benefits, too: renting can be less expensive, less stressful, and lower maintenance than full ownership, even if you rent a car every single weekend. (A rental location near my University used to have a special where you could rent a mid-size car for three weekends for less than $200.) tl;dr: Cars are still cool. Car ownership isn't.