Is it a right or is it a privilege to have a car ?

Car use is just ingrained into some people's brains, and it's the default mode of transport for them.

A friend of mine, who I've done a few 200km Audaxes with so he's not afraid of riding a bike, talks a good game but when round at his recently he still got in his car to drive to the shops 200 yards away to go buy a loaf of bread. I thought he was joking at first. He took ages because "it was a pain finding somewhere to park". It wasn't raining, it wasn't particularly cold, he just chose to drive a 400 yard round trip rather than walking, and took twice as long as walking would have taken. Of course he justified it as "Well I've already got the car, so I may as well use it". Amaze.

It seems that if you've got a car there are so many journeys you'll do with it because it's there:-

• it's more comfortable (possibly, but is comfort the most important thing?)
  
• journeys that could easily be done using other modes of transport
  
• things that could be batched up to reduce miles driven (e.g. going to the tip when you've got a car load of stuff rather than one of my neighbours who seems to go to the tip every weekend even if he's got a carrier bag of stuff to get rid of)
  
  

I guess that at some level car drivers may not like it because they see not being able to use their car as a negative thing, and by not using it they're making it slightly easier for everyone else that is using their car.

Another friend tried to argue against getting shopping delivered as he had to spend "up to an hour waiting for the delivery" and that's just "dead time". But he denied that his usual shopping experience (15 minute drive to the shops, 30 minutes in the supermarket, 15 minutes driving back) involved any dead time.