[BrianHenryIE]

> The hassle of dealing with traffic has always prevented me from cycling

Reminds me of:

> Cars are the perfect late capitalist consumer product: an expensive, often de facto mandatory, solution to a problem that the product itself has largely caused.

https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/1109082492147884034

[saiya-jin]

this doesn't cover my use case at all - moving around city 90% with public transport (like everybody in europe), but 100% weekend trips of 50-200 km, often to neighboring countries with very limited to non-existent public transport.

So for us it allows us to travel to places that wouldn't be otherwise accessible at all. I mean remote mountain villages and valleys, hopping to Italy etc.

Of course cars have tons of issues, but sure as hell they add tons of life quality for many folks out there.