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Lainons, do you drive? I personally don't drive and never want to drive. I simply look at my computing being my automobiles taking me all around the world.

Same, i ride a bike, but thats it. I was thinking getting an electric one or perhaps an electric roller. Owning and driving a car would be too stressy and costy for me.

> I personally don't drive and never want to drive. When I lived in other more reasonable cities, biking and public transit were good enough. Lots of stuff was in walking dustance too. Now I live in the old neighbourhood I grew up in where everything useful including anything resembling a grocery store has migrated either downtown or to horrible box store parks in the suburbs. That leaves a sort of retail desert where the only things I can buy conveniently are beer, cigarettes and overpriced food products. Biking here is suicide between the terrible condition of roads, steep hills, weather and motorists who don't know the rules of the road. So I walk. For the first time ever, I wish I had a car but can't afford it.

I skate (and use public transportation) everywhere.

I started riding a motorcycle a few years ago. It's quite fun and convenient. There are many twisty roads near where I live, and the weather is good enough to ride all year round.

Bought a car when I was 16 because I had a job and no financial responsibilities. Sold it to my brother when I went to college then bought another car a couple years later to commute to work. I like driving. Not sure what else to say. Don't think I'd ever buy a new car though, or one I had to finance.

>>7795 How did you learn to ride? I don't have anyone to teach me. Is it easy enough to pick up if you have some quiet roads to practice on?

I hate driving. Whenever I drive I always zone out. I was only able to get my license by taking it so many times that I just happened to get lucky and not zone out at the wrong moments. If I don't have anything else to occupy my mind I just think about random things. Unfortunately sometimes my mind wanders into the territory of my current being and how I am a failure of a human being. Albeit only ironically wanting to my end myself, I am scared that some primitive aspect from my brain will just make me control the vehicle in a way that kills myself or someone else. When you are traveling at tremendous speeds it seems like it would be trivial to die. In order to combat this, I usually just listen to some music or programming / security related talks.

I always get angry, stressed and confused when driving a car in town, countryroads are ok.

I bought an RX7. A friend pointed out it's an Lain's OP. I plan on mounting some radios and antenna as well a SLM and maybe my ONX meter.

>>7775 I have this strong urge after watching Initial D

i'm gonna buy a scooter, maybe

>>7832 Expectation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtBULPXOU2Q Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQttvB04V4s >>7832

I never learned to drive and I don't plan on doing it anytime soon, due to crippling anxiety about it. My family pesters me about it all the time, but frankly, I just can't bring myself to learn and actually do it. Guess I'll just be homebound for the rest of my life.

Used to enjoy driving back when I was in college and only really had to drive 5-10 minutes down the highway to campus for both classes and my job. Since my schedule let me stay up late, I would sometimes go for a ride at 10-11 PM when the roads were clear. Now that I'm having to drive more regularly, I hate it. All the idiot drivers, railroad crossings, road work, traffic jams, and stoplights that turn red the second I get close to them have sucked all the fun out of driving.

>>7837 You have to fuarrrk up a few times to get good. All part of the course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMRbocPamQ Some of those people in the fails compilation were clearly going too quickly, or were just in a too small area. The best way to learn your limits is practice.

I can and do, but anything that it takes ~20 minutes to bike to I choose to bike. I hate driving so much, but sometimes it's too much faster than alternatives.

I only truly feel in control of my life while I'm driving. I completely understand why 90% of people hate it and think of cars as just an extraordinarily expensive appliance (because they are for most people), but to me they are just fuarrrking spectacular. I get so much concrete satisfaction from both working on and driving my cars. It could just be me replacing some old suspension bushings and seeing a marked improvement in the handling of a vehicle. Or I could be going balls deep around a corner in my FWD daily in the rain, start oversteering when I hit the apex, and then straighten it out by flooring the gas on corner exit. Either way, I know that what happened was as a direct response to what I just did to the car, and there's nothing else I've found that feels like that. It's better than vodka, better than weed, better than LSD, it's a sense of accomplishment that I achieved due to the time and effort I've put into my cars. Holy soykaf that sounds douchey though.

>>7798 You pay for lessons.

>>8662 >seconded I am a gearhead for sure, and i used to tinker and race with my 1988 camaro. Although, limited budgets and a stronger desire for wealth and a quest for immortality have relegated such impulses to the back burner for now.

>>7775 > do you drive? I have worked on drivers, does that count?

getting a license is expensive here.

>>8662 i agree with this. there are few things more immediately satisfying to me than working on cars. i'm looking forward to the day when i can live in a place with a garage because there's a limit to how much work i can do on the side of the street or in my parent's driveway.

I drive. More specifically, I drive a shared family car (sedan) and occasionally the family SUV which surprisingly I learned to handle to quite quickly despite having been trained to drive smaller vehicles. Of course, family members are extremely reluctant to drive the SUV since it is brand new and they are pathetically paranoid about something happening to it. I keep wondering if they are so worried about driving it, then why did they buy something so fancy? I keep thinking they should have bought a refurbished SUV instead with dent marks and scratches already there. When I get my own place, I may end up just renting a car since problems can be solved just by swiping out the vehicles as oppose to having to go through the BS my family went through to get the Sedan fixed up. They had to take it back to the dealer twice because the technicians at the place did not fix the problem and then had to get authorization from the company to replace some computerized portion that had a short circuit or something along those lines. If I had to own a car, it would be one that I would not be worried about getting scratched up. There is no point in owning a car if you are too scared to drive it.

I delivery drive and have for about 3 years, the freedom of having a car is entirely worth the downsides. I can travel to any state (any to a different country) on a whim, with only the need for gas money.

>>8686 leasing is good if you must have a new car for some reason, but used cars are so cheap it's probably not worth the compromise (at least in america where you're pretty much allowed to drive cars into the ground so long as you can get it to pass the annual inspection). i paid $5k for a decent, reliable import with 140k miles on it. i've probably just about broken even on what i'd pay for a cheap lease, and i came out of it with a car that i can now sell for at least a few grand if i wanted to. the story changes dramatically if your car starts breaking down on you though. i got lucky in that respect. leases are nice if you need guaranteed reliability.

>>8687 god bless our lack of viable rail travel.

>>8689 >leases are nice if you need guaranteed reliability I think reliability is more important than many people realize. First of all you could die. I've had 2 cars fail on me while going at speed on the highway. Second you have to wait 2-3 hours for the recovery assholes to arrive, that's your day ruined. And third you have to deal with mechanics who want as much money as they can get for the trivial soykaf and too lazy to deal with important issues. I just walk to work now and only use my car on weekends.

>>8689 Reliability is my main reason for rental. I cannot afford to be late for work or to miss a shift. As another said, if something goes wrong, I would have to deal with technicians and mechanics who may see this as an opportunity to squeeze more money out of me. Then there was the issue my parents faced when their sedan was having some sort of computerized trouble. They had to take it back with my help to the dealership twice. First time, they fixed the problem that led to it but not the actual malfunction. Second time, the dealership had to contact the company's higher ups to get permission to replace a certain part. With a rental, I could bypass all that by swapping them out.

>>8691 >>8695 fair enough. still, i've driven plenty of death traps and never really had an issue. mostly because i pay attention and know enough about cars to spot issues before they leave me on the side of the highway (you can't really complain about reliability issues if you drive around with the "check engine" light on, for instance. it pays to be proactive). i think i've only had 2 "emergencies" on the same piece of soykaf subaru: the exhaust rusted through and dropped out, and the radiator cracked. easy fixes once i figured out what went wrong. just roll up to any garage and say "weld this", "replace this", etc. i'm not trying to say leases are a bad idea. but if you're the kind of person that's willing to learn how your car works, maintain it, and take care of the little things yourself, you can save a lot of money with a cheap used car.