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the only person who turns a metal box and bad music into pure freedom
means A person who operates a vehicle, or more broadly anything that propels, controls, or causes something to move or happen.
from From the verb "drive," rooted in Old English "drīfan" — to urge, push, or force onward, originally said of livestock and herds being driven across land. The same instinct survives everywhere: a cattle driver became a horse-cart driver became a car driver, while the figurative sense (a "driving force," a software "driver") simply kept the old meaning of something pushing things ahead. It shares ancestry with German "treiben" and Dutch "drijven," all from a Proto-Germanic root for setting things in motion.
- oldest license
- a woman drove legally past age 100
- reaction time
- average braking response is roughly 0.75 seconds
- screwdriver origin
- the tool predates the car by centuries
- phantom traffic
- jams form from braking with no cause
- left vs right
- about a third of countries drive left
lewis hamilton — 7-time formula 1 world champion, 103 race wins
danica patrick — first woman to win an indycar race, indy 500 in 2008
jeff gordon — 4-time nascar cup series champion, 93 wins
juan manuel fangio — 5-time formula 1 world champion, 1911-1995