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[nimblebear]

It only took a few generations, and just like the fascination with large homes has gone bust, this is no real surprise. Cars don't represent the 'freedom' they once did, and surely, the internet far surpasses the car in terms of freedom gaining liberty, especially for teens. social media has connected them in a way the car never could, and cars even represent in a lot of cases, an ages old theme that eventually catches up to each generation: its like those old vinyl records you have that kids mock you for, and in a word have represent being "old fashioned." This didn't happen sooner, because the internet hasn't been there since the day of birth until the kids who were born in the early to mid nineties. That generation is now coming of age, and its those people, who have the fewest reasons to buy a car. A car to these people now represent: 1) Debt on top of college debt 2) High insurance costs. 3) Maintenance (in a world that increasingly is computerized, which means very little DIY for cars, in an internet lazy generation of kids) 4) Responsibility: Internet kids, HATE and LOATHE responsibility of any kind, particularly given the prior generations continue to dump loads of unrepayable debt on their heads before they are even born. 5) Safe and boring: cars today are in a word, ugly, all look alike, and have little personality.