As a driver, I hate my car too!

Because of this, people who like driving should support every policy that diminishes the number of other cars on the road.

Despite my being an outspoken member of c/fuckcars and my repeated professed hatred of cars, I technically don't actually hate cars. They can have agricultural uses. Like if you own a large farm, and want to go check something or do maintenance, a car or truck would be a valid tool to do that.

What I hate is that people use cars to transport themselves around when there are other overall better, yet slightly less flexible alternatives. And that this decision to go with that style of transportation has so many horrible ramifications.

But anyways, when I drive somewhere, and yes, unfortunately, I'm currently forced to live in a situation where I must drive, I am not some weird ball of road rage, projecting hate at all the cars. I just generally hate the situation.

There are also e-scooters, (motor-)cycles, agricultural heavy machinery, ... , all of which have drivers, but are not cars.
So your shower Venn-diagram doesn't venn correctly...

NJB on why driving in the Netherlands is better than driving anywhere else is such a good analysis. When you design your transportation infrastructure to reduce conflicts between different travel modes, all the modes benefit.

I actually rather like cars. Old American muscle cars are beautiful and sound like heaven. Those haven't been managed to reproduce to this day.
Same for big cars, like The marauder from Top Gear or Mad max style cars, those are awesome.

Same for drag racing, both big and small cars. Seeing a huge truck twisting it's frame when starting is kinda awesome.

What i hate is the infrastructure demand, environmental cost and worshipping of everyday cars. It's just a transportation method, one of the least efficient, expensive, ugly and i doubt that any single person in existence enjoys sitting stuck in a traffic. Which what most of the daily driving is. In addition to the stress that's associated with actually driving responsibly, but way too many people fail that part anyway while endangering everyone around them.

I'm a car person. I hate trucks and large vehicles people dont need, which is 98% of them.

Also most drivers should have their license revoked. I enter often in motorsports events and actually know how to handle a car properly, emergency braking and maneuvers etc. No distracted driving. Checking every blind spot every time. Drivers should be forced to take hdpe classes and banned from driving vehicles over 3200 lbs unless needed for work.

The large majority dont do this. Yes, I'm a better driver than most, its just a fact.

In rural areas they are necessary. But we also need public transport for cities where cars dont make sense. Even in my smaller city, banning cars downtown should definitely be done. They ruin it.

Kind of but cars are a big burden:

• you have to keep on top of maintenance, on a bike too but if you kill the chain and sprockets you don't have to scrap it, the parts are not as expensive and complex
• even the cheapest cars are a lot of money to run, and renting more than two or three times a year is also a lot of money
• cars protect you from the elements and they're pretty comfortable but it comes at the cost of being sedentary and most people don't need to spend more time being almost immobile
• car insurance is a stressful scam in a lot of places: scuffing someone's paint on a parking lot because the wind swung your car's door open too hard is a big deal if insurance gets involved, where it's mandatory they really milk it to the bone by holding ”risk” over people's heads even for stupid mundane shit whereas injuries are paid off as minimally as possible

As someone who hates driving but has to sometimes. Drivers are way more scarier while driving than walking or biking.

If I cycle to work for a while I hate cars, if I drive to work for a while I hate cyclists.