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Yes. They've surrendered their freedom. They're bombarded with fantasies about driving on deserted roads. For many people their car is the most important social status signifier. For disenfranchised people driving a car is the only time they feel powerful. Car adverts are aggressive, Skodas are made out of snakes or something, aggressive driving is promoted and glamourised in movies, efforts to curb aggressive driving are considered by extreme libertarians an outrageous imposition. My colleague who drives a mile to work spends about 10% of her salary on her car. She's enslaved. Millions of drivers have surrendered their freedom to cars and some of the most powerful corporations in the world devote billions of pounds to promoting car dependence. So people use 200 horse power to go and buy some chips or a newspaper. It's insane.
Trapped.