Today it was a miserable day in New York. The remnants of a tropical storm Ida lingered around. The results were high winds, flooding and rain. The winds were yesterday but the rain stuck around all day today. It wasn't heavy but rather a light, constant drizzle. The kind you just hate to drive in.
Up to the end of the Middle Ages in almost all countries in the world people practically grew up on horseback. Their lives were one with their horses. They could ride like it was second nature, which it was. Their lives depended on the cool behavior of their horse.
Now, why am I saying this? Because here in the good old US of A, the car took the place of the horse. Kids start to drive the minute they reach legal age, or even before.
Driving is second nature to everybody or even first nature. Our lives depend on the behavior of our car.
I do believe that cars have souls. If we treat them right, they will treat us right.
So why on a lousy day like it was today people drive like they are still learning? Where is all that experience, that second nature everybody supposed to posses?
It has nothing to do with caution. People don't drive with caution anyway. They drive without any care about others or even themselves.
They just want to get where they are going as fast as possible and it doesn't matter how. But on a rainy day all bets are off. Traffic slows down, backs up even on a lightest traffic day.
American drivers should know and feel the road and shouldn't be afraid of it. A good car will handle all the problems of the road just like a good horse.
That's where the comparison ends. Gasoline is more expensive than oat. But then horses don't come with power steering.
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