Answer: freedom without effort is more freedom than freedom with effort. If that difference was small, nobody would put up with all the negative effects of cars
Depends if you’re just focusing on the act of driving vs driving on any given road in any given country. Road rules are different, shapes of cars are different, there’s auto and manual etc.
Unless you’re driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren’t centred in a car, which is disorienting.
Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it’s an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it.
Then there’s the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver.
Driving a car is fucking hard. There’s a reason you need to pass a test before they’ll even let you practice.
Personally i see what you mean, but most car drivers will not agree. Especially if those car drivers live a long distance from shops or work, or if those car drivers live somewhere where you have to go up and down hill to get to your destination.
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Answer: freedom without effort is more freedom than freedom with effort. If that difference was small, nobody would put up with all the negative effects of cars
Driving a car is way harder than riding a bike. We don’t let kids drive cars. You have to do a test and everything!
No it isn’t, the consequence of failure is just higher. Cars are stupid easy to drive
Depends if you’re just focusing on the act of driving vs driving on any given road in any given country. Road rules are different, shapes of cars are different, there’s auto and manual etc.
No. No they are not.
Unless you’re driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren’t centred in a car, which is disorienting.
Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it’s an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it.
Then there’s the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver.
Driving a car is fucking hard. There’s a reason you need to pass a test before they’ll even let you practice.
You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn’t make it so
driving cars is quite a lot of effort and money. though in other ways.
Personally i see what you mean, but most car drivers will not agree. Especially if those car drivers live a long distance from shops or work, or if those car drivers live somewhere where you have to go up and down hill to get to your destination.