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Gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised by the vibe in here, it’s a lot more true to the stated purpose than its r*ddit namesake which seems to be just an aggressive, literal take on the name.
I enjoy driving and love tinkering with cars and bikes. I don’t enjoy effectively being forced to use them for mundane commuting.
As a car guy who lives in the middle of nowhere country side sometimes I bike to town just because I feel like biking 50 miles.
I must say although I enjoy cars and driving I do wish public transport was better like Europe or some Asian countries.
Cars are fun, car dependency is not
I agree entirely with you here. All these nutjobs like *ndrew t*te who think we’re coming for their hobby cars are missing the point. I couldn’t care less if you like to drive cars or not. Heck, I would probably by myself lots of cool cars if I had tons of money. People don’t commute by car because they like driving, they commute by car because it’s the easiest mode of transport in their area. And a lot of cities would benefit immensely if that mode was instead changed to a combination of walking, biking, and tramming or similar.
My car is used only when other options aren’t reasonable. I have to fill it up every two months. Hate driving, hate what it is doing to everything.
Ironically, I’m a driving instructor, and pretty much the only time I really use my car is when I’m at work.
Driver in the streets, public transportation and pedestrian advocate in the sheets
I traded in my car a couple of weeks ago and the guy at the dealer was so shocked that I only drove 11k miles in 4 years. He was like, do you even buy groceries? Well, working from home and strategically living close to all the places I regularly need to go to makes me drive less. As for me getting a new car after just 4 years, that’s another story.
Wfh and strategic home location are privilege.
Disclaimer, I do this too.
But this is the “if your state/country is conservative/bad/repressive just move” of commuting.
I get what you mean, but I’m in a conservative state. But yes, just being able to work from home and afford to live close to the city is a privilege, and I’m aware of that.
Google had sent me an update of my usage for November and was all, “You drove 35 miles this month!”
It usually tells me things like 150 km, and then I go though and it’s another misclassified train trip
Lol
Farmers <– (hand hold meme) --> city dwellers: “Being able to get eggs at any time of day”
is it weird that i like the concept of a motorcycle more than a car?
Like even though they’re much more dangerous, i just don’t really care.
You’re not alone in not caring. Consider how many people will rail against motorcycles, but ignore worse activities. Horse riding is about 25x as dangerous as riding a motorcycle. How many folks do you see who are willing to tell a random person they see on a horse how dangerous the activity is? Yet I get random dipsticks who feel they’re doing the lord’s work when they come up to me on my bike and tell me what they think of the dangers of motorcycles.
I would never bother you about it but horses don’t wake me and my family up at 1 am, and a horse didn’t come out of nowhere yesterday (while it was dark) and cut me off almost causing an accident. So I imagine you can see why there is a bit of hostility.
But hey they are fun to ride and fuel efficient. My inlaws run their whole farming operation with motorcycles and an overworked tractor. Maybe people would like them more if we went after modifications that make them too loud.
I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.
That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.
Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.
I think it’s fair to say that horse’s have a wider range of personalities or temperaments than motorbikes do. A bike won’t throw you off if you’re doing everything properly. A horse on the other hand can just not be arsed carrying you anymore or get spooked by something passing by.
All that said I don’t think it would be easy to build a credible frame of comparison between the the two forms of transport. I wouldn’t be surprised if either could be ‘proven’ to be more dangerous given the amount of thin air that the frame of reference would be resting on.
Having license, didn’t drive for 3 years. Not planning to!
My plan is to use public transport, but man those Kei trucks/van are so cute! I’m probably gonna buy one later.
Commercial failure, but ridiculously adorable.
And the Mythic Rare electric version.
Me owing a car just to keep it 24/7 on street parking to keep that space used forever.
Don’t you have to pay for parking?
There’s a lot of free on street parking.
Lucky you. Here city parking always comes at a cost.
I live on a street that’s a well-known rat-run through the neighborhood. I like to park a vehicle 24/7 on the street to narrow it, and slow drivers down.
The street I used to live in Rio had cars parked, some of them abandoned, at both sides of the sidewalk, forcing everyone to walk on the streets. Because of that, the street was an infacto mixed use street, never reccomended by navigation maps. A quiet street thanks to the parked cars.
I was considering and was considering for another job, but in the end they went with another candidate. The major downside with it would be the 6+ months of car commuting until the trial employment ended and I was stable enough there to make a move. 6+ months of 35minutes in the car each way… Would have been an awesome job though.
Where I live having a driver’s license means it’s easier to vote. Sure it’s possible to vote without one, but I have to show a Photo ID and prove my address, and a driver’s license is the only form of ID with both a photo and address on it.
Assuming you’re in the US, most states also offer ID cards that can be used for all the same things a driver’s license are for, except for driving. Confusingly they’re usually handled through the DMV, since they have all the infrastructure to verify your identity and issue cards.
Can confirm. I don’t drive. Don’t habe a driver license. I still habe a card that look a lot like one, has an ID number, and is used exactly the same for everything except driving.
The only job I’ve commuted to by car was, um, the summer job I had when I had my learner’s permit when I was 18 or something.
I don’t have a car, I’ve not driven a car with my full driver’s permit, I think you need to renew it nowadays and I’ve not bothered with that for a couple of decades. We have buses here, why bother.
I rode the bus to work for a couple summers. My city is so spread out and bus service is so limited that I had to catch the only express bus there and back. It got me to work an hour before it opened and I had to leave an hour before it closed for the day, and it took 45 minutes to an hour to by bus to do what would have been a 20 minutes commute by car.
Yea, I ain’t losing my car virginity unless there’s a zombie apocalypse.
