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Some love it, some hate it.

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[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

No. I'm good at it. I've got truck and motorcycle licences too. I prefer walking or bicycling, there aren't great options for those in my suburb.

[-] nevermind@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I only learnt to drive a few years ago. I love it. Where I live now, the bus service is ok but it definitely is worth having a car (remote island). I used to be very anti- cars. No driving was one less car on the planet. I had to learn though. The only other person in my family who drives can no longer.

[-] bigboismith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Usually work from home but have an old daily driver from the sixties. Love to drive to the office with a "fun" car when I want to.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I like driving. My commute is not so busy that I have to deal with slowdowns, I can listen to whatever while I go to and from work. It's a nice little break where I decide what is happening. A manual transmission would add to the sense of control, but alas, I haven't bought one of those. Also strictly enforced speed limits limit the enjoyment.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Used to like it, but it faded over time, mostly due to the car being far beyond its prime. Not that I minded driving an old car, but I could no longer assume that it'd last the entire trip without trouble.

Then a little over a week ago I bought a new (to me) car. And that's when I noticed what I'd been missing for the past few years: I'd started to enjoy driving again.

Another factor was that once upon a time everything I owner could fit into my 1996 Volvo 940. And I took advantages of this a few times by moving across Europe. Later I became a family man, so that wasn't the case anymore, but it was OK: The entire household could fit in the car with a lot of luggage space as well.

Around the time when the old car symptoms really started to show up more and more frequently, we got a surprise 6th family member, and traveling anywhere now involved a lot of planning and usually sticking the oldest kid on an airplane or coordinating with someone else driving the same route.

But my new car (2019 Volvo XC90) can fit everyone, so now we can just hop in the car and go. So come summer I think we're just gonna go on a road trip down through Europe for the first time in 15 years.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I enjoy driving. Long distance road trips I love. And driving around in the summer in my old Miata with the top down is an amazing experience.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I like driving, road trips, weekend excursions, trips to the local race track, cruising events, take a drive to clear your head and listen to some music, etc. I'd give it up for better cities designed around people and walking and biking than cars, but driving never bothered me as long as I can avoid very densely populated cities and countries with traffic conventions I'm not experienced with.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I like to drive for short periods of time (less than an hour) on countryside empty roads. Everything else stress me out.

So... No I don't like driving.

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I love taking a casual drive to nearby small towns, especially on less busy freeways at non peak hours. And I also love using my 30 year old nugget that's getting rarer to see around. I do also love a good road trip across states.

However, I really don't like driving in cities or basically when I have to. The city I'm in at the moment leaves a lot to be desired for bike lanes (unprotected bike lanes on the shoulder of a major highway is the only route into town for me) so its a toss up between do I ride there exhausted and trusting idiots in high speed boxes, or do I join said idiots.

[-] Wander512@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I love it, driving my toy car is one of life's greatest pleasures, even just going out for a cup of coffee.

That said, I also love working from home, in a university town I can bike everywhere, or take my one wheel down to the grocery for essentials etc.

Idk why this seems so hard to understand to some of the fuckcars community, but liken it to vegetarianism (which as it happens my community is heavily vegetarian)

In the same way I strive not to eat trash low tier meat, and instead only consume quality, well cared for products.... I will happily push redesigns of communities for more pedestrian and pev centric ideals, but it does not need to be black and white such that it would sacrifice cruising the foothills and mountain roads I love so dearly.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As in operating a car? Yes, it's fun. When I have new tires I got on the toll road and go real fast around the smooth curves!

As in driving to get places, like work or the grocery, in traffic? No. I take the bike or walk.

So, I like to drive but don't like needing to drive.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

40 years ago, I loved driving. Even 20 years ago it wasn't bad. Lots of open roads near by. In the big city, rush hour was 30 mins in the morning and an hour or so in the late afternoon. Other than those times you could get around the city quite well. There were always some yahoo drivers but they were a small part of the population not a majority. Now I walk whenever I can, take the bus sometimes and only drive if I know I can do it in the lower traffic (although still busy) times. I'd like to bike more but unless it is a completely separated lane there are too many badly driven vehicles to take chances with my life.

[-] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I love to drive when I want to go a place that is far away and the route is interesting, it becomes part of the experience.

I hate to drive when is a chore, like commuting to the job or going to stores that are only placed were the only way to go is by car.

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