What Happen To The Joy Of Driving? Three-Quarters Of Drivers Want To Replace The Daily Commute’s Drudgery With Automation

I'll never not want to drive, but I have to admit that when I take the 405 through LA during weekdays it is not thrilling. I'm also not a huge fan of mass transit, but these people who do not want to drive probably really need a mass transit solution.

Count me in the "loves to drive" (my nice car) column. Nobody asked me to fill out a survey.

Even so, I recognize that many people buy a car just to get them from A to B. There's no love or passion for the car, or for driving. Perhaps a lot of these folks were involved in the survey? If you put me in an uninspiring people mover, I believe I'd care a whole lot less about the driving experience. It becomes more of a taxi than a personal expression of driving appreciation.

The love of driving is fading as there are far more cops of the road and ready to stop you for any reason and couple with that, is the insurance cost that shoots up when you get a moving violation.
Secondly there are way too many cars on the road and the "Open Road" that we once had is going away.

I think that--with the rise of people glued to their phones to interact with the world--driving takes time away from Snapchatting. Then factor in the "thou shall not drive and text" mantra and is response is not to text less, but to drive less and Snapchat more.

The shallow, idiot, entitled sheeple want to abdicate responsibility, dumb down, and embrace a culture of low expectations afforded them by autonomous driving.

I am atypical among my friends. I do not live on my phone. I'll not text you back immediately. I don't care to be incessantly connected BECAUSE I was taught to drive very fast at a closed venue beginning when I was 14.

Sound, vibration, and rumble addicted me to cars, but even driving an automotive appliance like a Ford Fusion attracts me because the journey appeals to me even stuck in traffic on the 405 in Los Angeles.

@monster: I love driving, but that does not mean speeding or lane weaving. I do hypermiling and have fun with that. I'm have the privilege of choosing when and where I work, so I don't commute, and I can just bugger off for a few weeks at a time and enjoy a road trip with a friend. So *I* enjoy the open road, unaffected by cops :-)

Actually - there are LOTS of people who have to drive to work - and in many urban areas of the country - there is no possibility of "enjoying" that drive - no matter how capable your car is. There was a time when I had to make the NYC trip during rush hour - and cheering happened when your car got to 20mph for more than a few seconds. So - replacing that drive with an autonomous one would be fine with me - and would allow me to get some work done at the same time. This is not being shallow - it is simply understanding the reality. If I cannot drive freely - let the computer do the stop-and go. I now do the trip off hours when there is no traffic though and I would want to drive that myself.

Everyone who has my cell number knows that I will simply NOT answer when I am behind the wheel - even if the exec phone goes off. (When It does I get to the nearest place I can stop). They will get a message saying that I am driving - and will return their call when I am not. Speeding around here in moving traffic is largely keeping up with traffic - which is generally 5-10mph above the limit - and that will rarely get you a ticket - but lane weaving will.

But - I will drive most anywhere - I still make the trip from NJ to Central FLorida the same day (I leave 1 AM). Since I like to camp - that leaves out planes and trains. I have made the trip to the west coast several times and am looking forward to my vacation this early fall across the Northwest - to the various National Parks. Something I have wanted to do for decades. And in those mountains - there are either no speed limits - very high speed limits that you often cannot maintain - and few attempts to enforce them too.