▲ 603 ▼ [meme] Anon likes bikes (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by Danquebec@sh.itjust.works to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/34370513 Anon likes bikes
[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 child) Driving a car is way harder than riding a bike. We don't let kids drive cars. You have to do a test and everything! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children) No it isn't, the consequence of failure is just higher. Cars are stupid easy to drive permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) No. No they are not. Unless you're driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren't centred in a car, which is disorienting. Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it's an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it. Then there's the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver. Driving a car is fucking hard. There's a reason you need to pass a test before they'll even let you practice. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn't make it so permalink fedilink source parent [–] redwattlebird 1 point 1 month ago Depends if you're just focusing on the act of driving vs driving on any given road in any given country. Road rules are different, shapes of cars are different, there's auto and manual etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children) No it isn't, the consequence of failure is just higher. Cars are stupid easy to drive permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) No. No they are not. Unless you're driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren't centred in a car, which is disorienting. Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it's an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it. Then there's the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver. Driving a car is fucking hard. There's a reason you need to pass a test before they'll even let you practice. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn't make it so permalink fedilink source parent [–] redwattlebird 1 point 1 month ago Depends if you're just focusing on the act of driving vs driving on any given road in any given country. Road rules are different, shapes of cars are different, there's auto and manual etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) No. No they are not. Unless you're driving competitively on a dedicated track, you aren't centred in a car, which is disorienting. Also, large areas of your field of view are blocked by metal sheets in a car. Combine that with the aforementioned disorientation and it's an awkward, confusing design that you just have to struggle with until you get used to it. Then there's the gears. In a bike, you just need to flick a switch to change gear. In a car, you have to do a whole dance with two pedals and a lever. And also the clutch sometime is a brake but not quite? The clutch does a whole lot of random things which make sense to engineers but nobody will ever explain them to a learner driver. Driving a car is fucking hard. There's a reason you need to pass a test before they'll even let you practice. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn't make it so permalink fedilink source parent
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago You can make anything sound hard if you decide you want to. That doesn't make it so permalink fedilink source parent
[–] redwattlebird 1 point 1 month ago Depends if you're just focusing on the act of driving vs driving on any given road in any given country. Road rules are different, shapes of cars are different, there's auto and manual etc. permalink fedilink source parent