Hello everyone. It’s time for the weekly two-wheeled trips.
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Bicycle 🚲 Trips this week: 0
- Total trips: 268
- Total imaginary income: $756
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Electric scooter 🛴 Trips this week: +7
- Total trips: 137
- Total imaginary income: $289
- Total kilometers: 1,366
I continue to study for my driver’s license every day. There are 1,100 questions in the textbook. I wonder, is it even possible to memorize 1,100 questions? 🤯 I’ve been watching educational videos on YouTube about scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, and cars—including their history in society and traffic rules. I’ve learned a lot of different and interesting things. It turns out that originally, it was believed that the driver was always at fault in any collision between a pedestrian and a car, and only much later did the idea emerge that a pedestrian could be responsible for their own carelessness.
I think that trying to understand what is right and what is harmful on a societal scale is a complex matter involving very little clear logic. Beliefs change. It used to be considered normal for slavery to exist; it’ existed in ancient Greece, yet their civilization was considered highly developed for its time. Now, people consider car emissions to be not very good. In another hundred years, electricity will probably be considered harmful, and carrying a smartphone in your pocket will be like inhaling radioactive waste. There have already been such examples in history: lead water pipes in Rome, toxic white powder in Asia, cigarettes—which were thought to relieve stress and thus be “useful”—and X-rays, which people thought were safe enough to be used for radiation every day 🤔
