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Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
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For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the automobile has represented freedom

That's a part I never understood.

Cara are fucking expensive, they're literally money drains. Unless you have that much money, you ainns having a car.

In Europe, bot having a car generally nis perfectly fine, you still can go everywhere easily as that place hasn't been turned into a cars-only paradise

In the US, and countries that modelled themselves after it, you're not going anywhere without a car. Public transit it shit at best and in many places completely absent. Want to try a bicycle? Good luck, you gotta mix in with the murder cars.

Cars do not represent freedom, they're the opposite

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    In Europe, not having a car generally is perfectly fine

    In cities.

    For those living in the countryside, not really, as distances are huge and public transport is rare (think a single bus that stops at a bus station a km or two away and passes maybe once every 2h) or non-existent.

    That said, over 70% of people in Europe live in urban areas.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Compared to walking or riding a horse they are freedom. They cost a lot, but also enable a lot.

    i wish we had transit here, but that doesn't mean cars are not freedom. Even in europe most people drive.

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