Gen Y less interested in driving

[Frank]

I forbid my wife to have any more friends who can't drive themselves. She has had 3 of them. Thankfully they have all kind of drifted apart. These were all women ranging from 22 - 30.

I was kinda eager when my step-son-in-law was getting ready to drive thinking it would be a great time to bond. He really didn't care too much if he got a car or drove and his biggest ambition (if you could even call it that) was to get his Mom's Windstar van so he could haul all his other deadbeat pothead buddies around to one anothers houses to play XBox. He seemed to have no interest in girls at all. I don't think he was gay (he has since grown a lot and turning out to be a responsible young man in his 20's now and starting to take some interest), but we would be at the store and he would be completely oblivious to girls that were smoking hot. Even if I nudged and nodded, he'd just look at me and say "wut?".

[Cooter]

I wanted to drive from the time I was about 2yrs old.

There is an unmatched feeling of freedom in being able to hop in your vehicle at any time and go where you want. It's obviously not "ultimate freedom", but it's about as good as it gets for most Americans.

I was in south east TX the other day, and bingo I'm in Colorado the next. No standing in lines, sitting next to somebody you don't know, deadlines, time schedules, etc. If I want to head up to Montana or Oregon right now or tomorrow or whenever, I can. And I can stay as long as I want.

I could see not driving much in a big metropolitan area, but fuck living in some slap-dick town like Waxahachie and not being mobile

[yellowstang]

I have yet to hear about a guy feeling the same way.

I know a guy, 26 I think, no drivers license, no desire to get one. He also lives off his girlfriend and plays Xbox all day. He did have a job at Home Depot (GF drove him and picked him up every day, and she works full time), but he got fired within 2 months. He was a cart boy, tough job I guess...

[GrayStangGT]

I was driving at 13.

Same here, I would go to work with my dad in the oilfield on the weekends and in the summer and as soon as we left the highway and got on a lease I drove the whole time.

[Big A]

I know a guy, 26 I think, no drivers license, no desire to get one. He also lives off his girlfriend and plays Xbox all day. He did have a job at Home Depot (GF drove him and picked him up every day, and she works full time), but he got fired within 2 months. He was a cart boy, tough job I guess...

I guess I should have said man? Fuck that, I've never been great with women, but I'll be damned if I get driven to my job.

[Pooter]

If they don't want to drive, GREAT. The less dumbfucks trying to text/reply to facebook while driving, the better. I enjoy driving but hate almost getting hit literally every single day from someone not paying attention.

[347Mike]

I can understand it if you are in a big city or where public transit is vastly popular but other than that I am puzzled.

I started driving in parking lots when I was 14-15 got my permit when I was 16 and wanted to drive everywhere. I learned to drive a standard when I wa about 17 in an old Chevy box truck on my own. I just hopped in and kept going around the parking lot til I didnt stall anymore lol

[Forever_frost]

The wife is from NZ and less than 25% of kiwis have a DL and that's with the law allowing parents to teach them without a test or anything. Almost everyone does public transport or rides a bike. It's annoying. If you want to run across town, you have to look up bus schedules

[bobs94formula]

Heck both of the Mustangs and my truck are sticks! They're just frigg'n lazy now days! When I started driving my parents didn't own an auto car either!

[Slowhand]

Works for me. Fewer people on the road and fewer people gunning for cars I want to buy.

[80coupe]

Didn't get mine till i was 18, but my older brother did we were really close did everything together so i really didn't have too i guess. but after i got my mustang up and going and to my liking i went and got mine.

[01-GATOR]

I learned how to drive when I was 13 in an old toyota corolla. It was a 5 speed so at first it would always die on me but eventually I got it.

[TRAXX]

Co-worker has a son thats 17 and just now is taking drivers ed mainly because he was forced to. Heck I got my permit as soon after 15 as I could and was pissed that my 16th birthday was on a Saturday and had to wait till Monday to actually get my license.

[Treasure Chest]

Weird. I turned 15 the last day of the classroom portion of driver's ed, and got my temp permit the same day.

[The King]

Driving around DFW lost its shine years ago. I put less than 3K miles a yeat on my vehicles now.