How many of you refuse to have a car?

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i use public transport,
have not got a licence but if i decide to get one i will need to go through a medical exam along with the regular testing because i have epilepsy (controlled with medication),

I love my car.

My coordination and etc. leads to me walking into fridges and etc.

I don't have a car or want a liscence, because I really don't think it would work out well. Also, I prefer to walk as I live in a fairly central location. But I take public transport to get to the other large town in the area, and to see friends etc.

My car helps me get to places faster and it's cheaper right now to use it than take the bus (bus pass costs $75 for 2 zones) because I am not working. I only take the bus downtown when I need to go down there.

I don't want a car. My dad won't get off my back about learning to drive. It makes me nuts. >_<

I was carless for five years in Richmond, and I rode a bicycle or walked or rode the bus. There are tons of people who don't drive, here.

If self transportation is not needed for you then it may be a good choice not to have a vehicle. It is the second most expensive thing in life next to owning a house or renting. Think about it, it is a large risk to be hurdling a heavy object that costs thousands of dollars at speeds of 5-75mph+ past other similarly expensive objects. Plus what it takes to keep them up. If you don't need to do it, then don't do it.

I however am more of a driving enthusiast. I don't drive to go places, I drive to experience driving, but not in the city. More in the mountains, though canyons, corners, hairpins, snow, rain, dirt, rocks, boulders, rivers, hill climbs, etc. I do it for the feeling it gives me, I try to become one with the machine, drive a manual, feel for the maximum geforce I can achieve around corners right before my tires begin to loose traction, I go offroading, go off the trails, go to somewhere no one has been, be at peace.
I refuse not to have a car!
My one problem is that I get lost and wander much to easily in the city though, and its actually a big problem for me. I also get confused in traffic situations.

Last edited by unreal3x on 17 Jan 2009, 3:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

Even if you are not going to own a car, you should atleast learn to drive for emergency purposes.

"I don't want to bother with repairs.
I don't want to bother with gasoline.
I don't want to bother with flat tires.
I don't want to bother with oil changes.
I don't want to bother with car insurance.
I don't want to bother with yearly inspections.
I don't want to bother with the thought that my car could be stolen.
I don't want to bother with registering my car at the department of motor vehicles.
I don't want to bother with entering car related information in my tax return forms.
I don't want to bother with dishonest car mechanics (car enters the repair shop with a problem, leaves the shop with a new problem). "

Did you purposely organize that from shortest to longest? Lines 8 and 9 need to be switched though.

Public transport sucks.

I'm getting a DeLorean when I'm 18

I have never learned to drive, ( can't be bothered; it has never seemed important enough ), and since leaving home have lived in London, Manchester, two small towns in Cornwall, near a village, and in a small city in the north of England, without needing one, for 15 years.

Transport systems were not ideal, but were sufficient for most things. I used a cab on occasion for shopping and coming home late at night from places.

For the last 10 years I have lived with the father of my child in France, and he has a car for his job, but I only get into it about once a week/fortnight when we do the "big" shopping.

My parents never had a car either, and have lived happily without one the whole of their lives, in several different kinds of places, from small village to large towns.

I gather that the USA is more difficult without a car, because many/most of the towns have been built with car ownership in mind/taken for granted, and sprawl over great distances.

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i am an absolute danger to humanity putting me in a vehicle that msotly comprises of metal and that can travel up to speeds of 200 kmh might not be the best of ideas

I don't think I could ever trust myself driving. My mind tends to wander too much, which probably isn't the best thing when you're in control of a heavy object travelling at 60 km/h. I'd probably end up figuring out the cure for cancer seconds before crashing into a stobie pole.

i have a bomb car. it wasn't a bomb when we got it. it cut quite a dashing figure actually.
when i learned to drive it experienced the full thrust of my poor spatial orientation ( which happens intermittently.)

i learned to drive at 40.
it's an old toyota bomb car. it is never cleaned and it serves a functional purpose for me.
i am not into cars - i would never spend money on one as a priority. i would prefer the money went to something important like oil paints and art supplies.

due to own experience with autism and high complex needs,cannot use any transport apart from a car,without them and staff with a licence,am left extremely restricted,and often housebound,it isn't just about needing the car itself but also for the essential sanctuary it gives.

The bus and the people on it give you sensory overload or too much social anxiety?