Just got a tow from the side of the highway. I feel like I’ve been jumping from car issue to car issue my whole life. I don’t even want to have a car.

No advice needed or anything, just venting.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      I feel that. It’s especially awful to me how much of the US, there is no alternative and you’re essentially being forced to do a dangerous high-risk activity on a regular basis just to get to and from places for basic survival (that is, if you can afford a car and are capable of driving and so on - and if you can’t, you may be dependent on someone else doing that dangerous high-risk activity). The amount of cumulative stress from that, not even getting into the number of injuries and deaths, has gotta add up to a lot.

      And the whole concept of driving as the main means of getting around is so backwards and ineffectual that the richest people bypass it and use private planes instead. All the traffic, the accommodating different directions people are coming from, lights, stop signs, turnoffs, you end up with so much starting and stopping, it’s wasteful for gas use, wastes time, and isn’t even freeing like it gets portrayed as because you’re highly limited by the roads and their traffic patterns and design. And don’t get me started on how so many road designs have no consistency at all and vary widely from moment to moment, because forbid any of it makes any sense and was planned ahead on.