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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
Wait, your car? You’re instructing learners in your own car? How does this work, doesn’t your car need pedals for the passenger seat?
Yep. You can get them installed on basically all cars. The next car I’m looking at is a Lexus. By the looks of it I’ll have to get my dual controls made bespoke for that which could easily cost upwards of £600.
I honestly much prefer doing it in my own car as opposed to having to hire.
Yea, I ain’t losing my car virginity unless there’s a zombie apocalypse.
There’s so many fictional apocalypses where gas is somehow plentiful, don’t really get it. Long term, a good zombie apocalypse prepper would probably rely on solar panels and a bike.
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’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.
Fun fact: Robert Moses, the man who almost single-handedly fucked New York City beyond repair by building bridges and parkways while actively working against public transportation options like trains, buses and subways beginning in the 1930s, never learned to drive himself.
Robert Moses really deserves to be the patron demon of this sub.
Most recent 99pi episode or power broker?
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.
Farmers <– (hand hold meme) --> city dwellers: “Being able to get eggs at any time of day”
Don’t the farmers have to wait on the chickens to lay some tho?
Normal distribution with outliers meme:
- rural: just go to the coop
- city: just go to the CoOp
- suburban: does the truck have gas? are you sober enough to drive? how bad is the traffic? it’s so far to drive! where is a parking space?
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.
