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A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue
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I live in an area where you don't have to have a car, you can do most things without. But you'll have to pry my car keys from my cold dead hands because it is so incredibly more convenient and faster to have one.
Edit: noticed the community. To be clear, I'm all for good infrastructure for people who don't own one, I just wouldn't go back to the days where I didn't have one.
Myself, and probably a good percentage of this community dont just have a blanket hatred of cars. It's mainly about how car-centric design sucks, even for people who drive cars.
Many cities that are designed with good public transit are also way easier to drive in. If 99% of people have to drive into a city center for work, or school, or groceries, or whatever, everything has to be really spread out for enough parking, roads need a lot of lanes and a lot of entrances/exits, so driving is stressful, and you still end up spending a lot of time in traffic.
With competent infrastructure for walking/biking/public transit, the mode share for cars drops, and driving actually gets easier since you aren't competing with everyone else.
The real question is would you ditch your car if it were more convenient and faster to go by bike or transit, or with a shared car service for extra and week-end trips?
Yeah, I have a kid. From groceries to doctors appointments and camp and activities, doing all this without a car would be a nightmare. That said, I buy used, pay cash, and own a little Honda hatchback that sips gas.
I was a kid when i was poisonned by idiots drivers
People like you ruined my life. I have a long term disease because of all the fine particle from idiot vroomists. I hope you get lung cancer
This is what people don't get. Having a car changes everything. It's much more convenient.
Yeah I'm also all for good public transport and as many options as there can be. However that doesn't change the fact that having your own var is much more convenient. Especially in an emergency.
Yes because your own life is the measurement of what's right and wrong. Everything revolves around you and your ability to vroomvroom your fatass around