Some love it, some hate it.
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I like cruising. There’s nothing like a state highway in the US that’s popular enough to be well maintained, but not so popular that it’s crowded and in the suburbs. They whisk you past some amazing sights and pieces of Americana that are quickly fading.
As for commuting, anything more than 20 minutes one way is either hell or a trip needing some level of planning between walking to the fridge and sending man to the moon.
You see some great things cruising. What’s some of your favourite things that you’ve seen?
Was an anxiety trigger. When I removed it from life other areas improved. Understand some do not have the luxury and am appreciative.
Hated it from the very first moment. Tried everything to make it work.
It sounds backwards, but I like driving because it’s a time when I can’t scroll or play games. I drive to the next town over (about an hour’s drive) 2 or 3 times most weeks. It’s a good chance for me to listen to something, or just ponder. I’ve been listening to the Bible over that drive more often lately.
No.
It’s exhausting, and I’m not good at it.
And when I say “I’m not good as it” I don’t mean below-average. If anything, I’m an above-average driver, but the average is abysmal and most people on the road should frankly not have licenses.
I get that. Are you neurodiverse? It can be linked to some conditions like dyspraxia
I’m in the process of being evaluated for ADHD, but I definitely don’t have dyspraxia; I’m a dancer and waitress.
Well done for getting the adhd evaluation they can be hard to get. I have dyspraxia so I’m v jealous of your ability to dance.
I should probably try again to get an ADHD diagnosis. Last time I tried I got a phone call maybe a month later from the clinic saying that the evaluation board or whatever had given no diagnosis, not a “you don’t have it” diagnosis just declined to give a result. So anyway I really didn’t feel like following up at the time.
I love driving, and I love cars, but I hate public roads and traffic.
Like driving goods train or goods truck
Love it. Ticks all my ADHD boxes. I can drive for days and just be calm.
I’m neurodiverse too, do you mind telling me how it ticks your ADHD boxes?
Lots to pay attention to. If I put on tunes and drive all the anxiety and oddness disappears. There is enough going on to calm my brain. I was a paramedic for years and that driving was even better. A bit reckless, fast, attention seeking and grabbing, attention to detail, patterns, concentration, all the things.
That’s really interesting… for me it works the other way there’s too much going on!
I see you were a paramedics would you consider doing an AMA? I bet people would be interested
No; I’m a shitty driver and other drivers that are problem drivers combined with my shit driving scare me.
I think I picked it up from my parents (who are both terrible drivers also). I’m sorry everyone! I’m working on it. Really I am!
It’s fine I understand haha. Are you neurodiverse? It can be linked
Yeah, I have ADHD. It is both my crime and punishment lol.
Depends on why I’m driving. A regluar rush-hour commute isn’t enjoyable but almost all other driving is. Last year I drove from the UK to San Marino and back - with stops on the way. By the end of the trip I was happy to get home, but I still wanted to do the driving.
I would love it but people are assholes all the time
I love some aspects of driving… I love my car and how nice it looks when it’s clean and shiny. I love feeling the acceleration and driving through twisty roads. I love being outside and feeling the sun, while seeing all the varying sights across the city. I love the freedom of going anywhere, and effortlessly carrying passengers and cargo with me.
I don’t like traffic or contributing to traffic. I HATE that we feel the need to pave over our shrinking green space for new highways. I hate the salt and pollution that comes with so many roads and cars.
Driving yes, quite a bit. Especially if you can get out on a racetrack. Was decades after I had left schooling before I realized all that stuff they try to teach you in physics about friction and momentum all actually have real world application for us normies. Would have learned so much more in school if I could have put 2+2 together back then, but I also can’t imagine putting 14 year olds out on a racetrack either.
And even when not racing, just the freedom of being able to hop in the car and drive to another state is just downright liberating. Bored? Well, shit, hop in the car, let’s go have an adventure! (I will admit, at my age, ‘adventure’ is code for ‘ice cream shop’, but it still makes me smile, so fuck it.)
That said, most of us only use our cards for commuting, which is the worst possible experience. It’s no wonder so many folks hate driving, their only experience with cars is the bad one. All of us just sitting in traffic wishing we didn’t have to go to work. I am seriously angry at our world for not pushing much harder for remote working. We proved it worked great during COVID, and yet here we all are back in the office.
I mostly dislike it because traffic and idiots in cars. It can be fun, but usually it’s just frustrating.
It’s a struggle for me. I absolutely love driving; tearing up country roads in a shitbucket firebird was literally my only solace as a military brat growing up mostly in the southern US. That has never left me, and the ability as an adult to do things like drop $1500 on Michelin Supersports and drive a vehicle that needs the 93 octane fuel has only made it worse.
That being said, as I’ve gotten older I’ve been coming around to “we need to end capitalism before it ends us” and car culture is a huge part of that. That leaves me as a huge enjoyer of fuckcars type posts and ideas as well as the owner of a little Japanese sports car that is a big part of my identity and basically my only safe space. I’m very conflicted about it
Hate driving when there are other cars. So I hate driving. I didn’t mind driving when I was on the I80, cause it was big and wide and more empty but fuck getting to the I80 from here. NJ has bad drivers and I’m one of them. Gimme better transit, NJ!!!
