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Re:Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of l... by fragmede on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:06PM (#34837261)
You missed the biggest problem of all - traffic. Driving can be quite fun, but sitting in traffic is not. Because "everyone" has a car now, there's traffic everywhere to make LA freeways jealous. Sitting as a passenger in a car that's barely moving isn't the worst - we have infinite distraction boxes to play with, but the driver has no such toy to play with, so they have to make do with podcasts. Which are often quite engaging, but the driver still has to drive.
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Re:Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of l... by doubled112 on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:34PM (#34840162)
Driving IS fun. Sitting in a car sucks.

Save the manual transmissions!

I joke mostly, but I'm convinced it's the only thing keeping me engaged while stuck in traffic sometimes.

If it wasn't for that, I'd have been distracted by a squirrel and love tapped something by now. Traffic is boring.

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