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the only place where two tons of steel obeys your every whim and bad mood
means The act of operating and steering a vehicle, especially a car, to make it go where you want.
from From the Old English "drifan," meaning to push, force, or urge onward — the same verb used for driving cattle or driving rain. Long before steering wheels, you "drove" anything you compelled to move: herds, nails, oxen pulling a cart. When horseless carriages arrived, the word simply climbed aboard, carrying its old sense of forcing something forward into the age of the engine.
- first ticket
- issued 1896, a Brit doing 8 mph
- left or right
- about a third of countries drive left
- daydream mode
- brains autopilot familiar routes, memory blanks out
- deadliest hour
- more crashes happen near home than far
- original meaning
- to drive once meant herding cattle
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