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Well that's just nonsense. There are enough downsides to cars without having to make up fringe lunacy like this.
No, like trying to say that cars don't give you independence because they need insurance and servicing. That's simply not the kind of independence people are talking about.
It's like saying metro systems aren't convenient because they are really difficult to build. It's confusing two different things.
So? You know what can also derail your day?
They can!
Nobody is under the illusion that cars never break! Come on dude. Trains and buses are hardly infallible either!
Everyone has 10 stories about trains being cancelled or buses not showing up. That's life. Completely irrelevant to the fact that cars give you independence.
Obviously I was not talking about actually derailment. That was obvious to anyone not being deliberately stupid. Trains are delayed or cancelled all the time. Much more frequently than cars break down.
It's becoming clear that you live somewhere where there are no trains or buses so you have no actual experience of them and imagine them to be perfect.