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Heavy car dependency is making American lives less satisfying, study shows
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Yeah, I find driving and owning a vehicle to be a burden. I think it also encourages bad perceptions of others because we are all in each others way on the roads and because everyone is in separate bubbles. You experience other drivers as both threats/problems and as not real people, unless you stop next to each other and chat through the windows.
Compare the way you encounter fellow drivers on the road with fellow cyclists or passengers on a train or bus. It's less real - everyone just stewing in their own jar.
Nobody in america can compare it because for the vast majority of us, transit just isn't a viable option. Most people won't wait 1 hour on an inconsistent bus when we can get there in 20 minutes driving. We can't chat on the trains that don't exist between our cities. We can't chat in the cycle lane because there is no cycle lane, it is a gutter where any attempt at conversation is drowned out by road noise and exhausts with no enforced noise limit.
We've let car dependancy go so far because there are so few people still alive who actually remember what things were like before we all saw the world through these steel bubbles.