• huppakee@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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      2 days ago

      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!

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        No it isn’t, the consequence of failure is just higher. Cars are stupid easy to drive

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          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.

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            1 day ago

            You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn’t make it so

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      20 hours ago

      driving cars is quite a lot of effort and money. though in other ways.

      • huppakee@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        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.