I have a hard time accepting that everyone should have their own vehicle in the first place.
This entire post will age poorly if we ever transition out of this incredibly self-indulgent and wasteful period of human civilization.
We should have walkable neighborhoods, mass transit of gleaming efficiency, bike lanes as priority, we should be encouraging socializing and creating spaces for people to gather that aren’t profit-driven, but with plans to create comfort and recreation to better the people and foster a sense of belonging to a community. It’s absurd we all live in places with lots of people but have no sense of belonging to a community. This goes against literally millions of years of our own evolutionary history. We NEED community to function and have healthy minds.
I mean, it’s not likely to happen. But maybe when the next great apocalyptic event happens the survivors can try to remake things with a little more planning. After the whole period of darkness and cannibalism of course.
We should have walkable neighborhoods, mass transit of gleaming efficiency, bike lanes as priority, we should be encouraging socializing and creating spaces for people to gather that aren’t profit-driven, but with plans to create comfort and recreation to better the people and foster a sense of belonging to a community.
Not everyone wants to be packed like sardines. That’s the beauty of individualism. You might think this sounds like some sort of utopia, but to me this sounds like hell.
I can’t even entertain this premise. There’s no way neither of them has a preference…
Maybe they just have 2 of the same cars lol
Personally, I’d still have a favorite…
Wow what a couple of freaks. I bet they probably even sleep in the same bed. Who tf does stuff like that. This is the biggest scandal that has ever been posted on lemmy.
Yeah, but they almost certainly have their own “side” of the bed. What kind of monsters wouldn’t?
This is an excellent follow up question to OP
I also want to hear about psychopaths that grab the nearest side and conk out. Or, hell, sleep crossways idk. This is some real chaotic neutral shit.
They’re probably some generational rich that randomly choose a bedroom to sleep in at night or something
this should break the whole internet anytime now
My wife and I share the cars like this. Is it so weird? We usually select the best car for the job at hand.
Yea, why is this such a surprise. Especially with kids or groceries. Different trips require different transportation needs.
Same. And the best car at hand is the EV one, 100pct of the time. Whoever goes out takes that car. In the off chance the second person need to go out at the same time, they take the older crappy car.
What if it was a daily commute for both you and your wife? Would you play eeny miny moe with the cars every morning?
Good point. She commutes a few days per week, but I’m 100/% work from home. Can’t say I miss commuting.
Commutting 40min+ each way every day, I envy.
sharing things with your spouse???
Lol, my wife and I happily drive whichever car, unless there’s a specific reason we need to take a specific car. Equally we definitely have cars we think of as “ours”
We share a single car between family members. And we do not live in the same household or even the same cities / towns.
You guys usually have two cars?
Unless you have older kids, then more cars. It’s cars all the way down.
How else are you supposed to get to work? The bus takes 2 and a half hours and you will get there late and have to leave early. God I wish the bus was viable.
Where I live that’s not even the problem any more, and not because it was fixed either. You have to leave early regardless to have time to get stuck in traffic, find the only parking spot is far away, then walk 10 min in the rain, then dry off for work.
I know right? imagine having even one car…
ok one or both partners hate cars. Neither can survive without a car if the other one doesn’t have a car. That is a colossal failure, but we’ll move on.
My dad worked nights and Mom was a SAHM who also did some freelance stuff from home. They basically had a first come/first served system, and honestly didn’t have many conflicts so the second car (usually the one they’ve had longer) was rarely used. That was perfect when I started driving in high school, because I could usually use that car (even if it was a few years older than I was)
My brother talked them into buying a used Mitsubishi Eclipse back when it was still kinda cool (an '03 model purchased in 2007?). Mom ended up really liking that car and it’s not really practical for the handyman stuff my dad does in his retirement, so now they have assigned cars.
We have two cars and they are both kinda mine. He bike commutes and way prefers it. I work two hours away though and have always driven more. So generally I take the van if I’m going to be at work for a few days, I’ve got it camperized, or the bmw if it’s a there and back, or other trips like that. Since I’m gone for a few days at a time he still needs a car for some errands, otherwise we’d just have the van. I do all the organizing for service work and cleaning, and general car stuff as well.
Clearly is not her brain doing the thinking for her. Maybe it’s the beer.
My wife and I just have 3 very different vehicles and decide pragmatically who should take which that day if we’re going out at all.
She definitely has her car and I have mine. Mine’s over a decade old with over 100k miles, and hers is a year old. I think her car is really neat, but there’s a lot I don’t like about it. Too much tech, too many weird quirks in the systems, and it’s a little compact for my height. I’m glad she likes her car, but we definitely have assigned cars.
I ride my bike and my partner theirs, we aren’t savages.
Do you each randomly choose a bike every morning? That is really the point here.
Commendable. But many of us live where cars are the only practical way to get around. My wife and I both drive 30 minutes to get to work.
Oh boy. Fuck Cars is not going to be happy…
30 mins by car is 35-40 mins by bike where I live, because bikes aren’t affected by traffic.
Roads are 55mph here, seldom any traffic, so it’s more like 2 hours by bike. For us anyway.
Insurance and ownership papers here generally require a primary owner here, at least on paper
Husband and wife in America can go on a vehicle as far as I know. Hell two unrelated people who both sign on the vehicle own it as far as I know.
