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Cold, rain etc... And moving heavy things (like heavy groceries)

Inb4 they just remove regulations so it becomes the vehicle of freedom

Cool let me just bike 30 miles to my job and back everyday sounds good

Collisions can still kill or injure you badly if the other person is driving a car

Also if you accidentally hit someone at speed and their head cracks open on a hard surface they could die

So I'm not entirely sure about that claim

With the average commute to work in the US being 16 mi one way, The average speed of riding a bicycle in the city being 15 mph, that makes the average commute to work just over an hour long (over 2x the 27 minutes it takes in a car). If you work in a job that requires you to be presentable, then you need to add another 15 minutes to take a quick shower and change (if your workplace even has such facilities).

Obviously, this changes with e-bikes, but there's not really a practical difference between most modern e-bikes and an electric moped.

$20 gas gets me much, much, much further than $20 in eating high carb prepared food when riding my bike between point A and B. Not fuel efficient, in fact, energy expensive, but it is over all cheaper than a car if you can handle the potential physical abuse of riding a quarter mile up hill to your house. I did this last year while my car was in the shop, I learned I lived at the top of a hill, in the middle of a valley. Lost around 14lbs in a week just running errands, and I was carb loading like crazy. Carbs, meat, sugars, and tons of water. Riding a bike is all laughs and giggles until you're doing it to get meat and milk to fuel your required errands and despite eating everything in sight you're still losing weight at a shocking pace... They had my car a month, I was able to hold out on most errands until around just before the final week, went from 179, to 165. Kept eating as I felt I needed and was back up to 175 in about a week after getting my car back, and with recent exercise and pushing myself I dropped to 169 while increasing my max weight, it's really only surprising when you find I was 280ish lbs just 6 yrs ago... I digress, bikes are tough on the body.

Try this when you are in your 70's and come back and we'll chat. And bring a cure for my chronically poor balance on your way over.

I know a couple of people my age (about 40) who really prefer not to drive, but it's such a strange preference IRL that I suspect most people with it have just never experienced how much better it is to have a car and live somewhere where driving is convenient.

I know that sounds patronizing but I was a bikes/mass transit supporter myself when I was younger and it was 100% because I hadn't learned how to drive and I didn't know what I was missing.