gauss1777 – Member
This may not be the place for this, but is there not an argument for not learning to drive so young? As soon as people can drive, they seldom travel any other way – at that age they should be able to travel more actively?
Naaaa, it takes time to learn, at 17 you’re in college, have free periods, finish at 3.15, have an actual lunch ‘hour’. It’s ideal for learning to drive. Friends who did it later in their 20’s (after uni) had a right ball ache having to negotiate time off work. Even the hourly bus was a 2 mile walk away, or every 20minute one 4 miles the other way.
You also get to put on your insurance that you’ve had a clean license for ~5 years when you eventually do get a car which makes a huge difference to premiums (my first premium at 21 was <£200, my housemates was £1300).
And for a lot of people (myself included) motorized transport was the only practical option (it was a 18mile each way trip to school). Theoretically cyclable, but not something you’d want to do every day rain or shine, injury or not.