Learning to drive the family car. It was a 58 Ford 6 cyl stick. No power anything. No AC. It had floor vents you could open to “cool” off. It already had bondo on the rocker panels and on the fenders behind the front wheels where it had rusted through even though it was only 4 years old. The car would probably not make it to 100k miles. Very few did. It had shoe brakes, no seat belts and bias-ply tires. My mother rear-ended another car once because she didn’t have the strength to lock up the wheels. I’m sure she could have stopped in time in a modern car with power disk brakes.
The interstate highways were just being built. The first time I drove on a road was on a 10 mile stretch of I-90 that had just been completed. Only that 10 miles existed on that stretch and there was almost no traffic. A trip to my Aunt and Uncle’s home in Charleston, WV took over 8 hours. That trip became 5 hours or less after the interstates were completed.
“The interstate highways were just being built. The first time I drove on a road was on a 10 mile stretch of I-90 that had just been completed. Only that 10 miles existed on that stretch and there was almost no traffic. A trip to my Aunt and Uncle’s home in Charleston, WV took over 8 hours. That trip became 5 hours or less after the interstates were completed.”
You stumbled on something there, we were BUILDING highways that improve the country greatly. Now what? Trains and light rail that no one uses? We’re friggen lost.