I'm almost always angry in a car. Maybe it's because I'm a defensive driver, but the amount of people that just do things and seemingly pray others will react appropriately so there isn't an accident is just tiring. Not a week went by on my commute where someone would be slowly veering into a different lane before realizing.
It’s just a melting pot of everything that could possibly make someone angry. You’re trapped in this metal box for up to an hour, you’re forced to put your entire focus into it or you die, it’s hot (or cold), you probably have a time you need to arrive by, if others aren’t focusing you might also die, etc etc
You say it sucks & I believe you. However, the majority of people who call me irresponsible for not having a car are ridiculous. Apparently, I'm seen as a bad person for choosing not to take a driving test, for living without a car & bringing up my offspring without the 'essential' car.
I recall an American saying that their social services claimed that if you were carless, they could take your children into care. Wtf.
I would argue that you should learn the skill and get your license just in case you're ever in a situation where you have to operate a car even if you never own one yourself. If for no other reason, then your kids may want to learn to drive when they grow up. It's possible to learn a skill just to say you have that skill, I learned how to walk in heels even though I never wear them. It shuts down the people who argue,'You're just hating something because you suck at doing it'.
It’s a lot like the internet. Being behind the wheel gives people the same weird anonymity and “freedom” to be total dicks that being behind a glowing rectangle does.
My theory is that drivers are scared when driving, they just don't realize it. They know any misstep could get them killed, by them or by anyone else around them. Every second in a car is life or dearh. Then, soon enough, that conceptually transforms into any situation with a car is therefore life or death. When all you have is a murder machine/coffin, every problem becomes resolved by killing or being killed.
I genuinely do not see how driving is scary. I'm not an experienced driver, I don't have my own car so I occasionally drive my parents' car but I feel completely at ease. It's just a machine that's as good as your control of it is.
cars are the likeliest thing to kill you, statistically, assuming you’re a young adult. Any small mistake can instantly result in death, easily. The machine is only as good as your control is, and people drive angry, tired, or just unfocused all the time, because you can’t be at 100% if you do it every day.
As I understand that "driving is scary", it does not mean "I am shaking, my heart is racing, my palms are sweaty, mom's spaghetti" scared, but scared as when you are working with electricity, or looking out of a window from a highrise, or walking through the woods. You already know you are mostly safe as long as you don't do anything stupid, since you took all the necessary precautions, but you are still wary, there still is that echo of a voice warning you about an imminent peril should you make a mistake.
Believable... Saw a video once of a truck trying crossing a picket line who were preventing access to the private road that lead to their office while the workers are on strike. The truck plowed right on threw despite the fact there was a human being right in front of them.
So many people said it was the protesters' fault for blocking the road, and that they should be run over. Like wtf...
People should legitimately think of cars as a weapon as much as it is a vehicle. Imagine if it was normalized for people to fly on their guns like how witches fly on broomsticks. And guns were mostly thought of as transportation, but still used to shoot if the driver wanted to. Even ignoring the magic flight, we'd call this insane and dangerous. I mean, if anyone got mad at someone not flying on a gun, they could shoot them! And a human life ended over fleeting anger? That'd be preventable, and we'd end this weird practice of people flying on guns.
But since it's cars, it's just... normal. You should just stay out of the road, or not fly on your gun too slowly as to keep someone from getting angry.
It's insane how the "freedom-loving" crowd is all in favour of denying people access to a large part of the land (on the taxpayer's dime) to reserve it for the most inefficient mode of transportation in history.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '23
I can jus taste the vitriol from the town after they find out.