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title: "Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road Paperback – June 8, 2021"
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# Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road Paperback – June 8, 2021

**Brand:** matthew b crawford
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Past and the Future of Driving
*by M***L on October 29, 2024*

I bought a physical copy of this book for a friend after I listened to the audiobook version. If you are interested in the philosophy of driving, why we drive, the history of driving, and the future of the car and automation and the experience, then this is the book for you. Echoes many sentiments from the author's previous book, "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Take away our wheels, take away our freedom
*by R***A on July 26, 2020*

I'd give WHY WE DRIVE 10 stars if I could. I seldom read a book in one sitting (I have a pile I rotate through) but I raced through this. If one goes back in time a few hundred years, in Europe travelers had to have passports and permission just to travel from one town to another. Naturally, serfs seldom were given permission. Crawford demonstrates that we're approaching that singularity, where Google and a bureaucracy will determine if we're entitled to stray outside our proscribed boundaries. Meaning, no more cruisin' for burgers or fall color tours of northern Michigan. Might hurt the environment. Might run over a squirrel. Their flattened corpses are so aesthetically displeasing. Autonomous vehicles would in effect hand the keys over to the likes of Greta Thundermug and a cadre of faceless technocrats.But the book covers much more than this: lab rats taught to drive custom coupes, a look at adult soap box racing in Portland and the pretentious elites who dwell there, desert racing, encounters with bears (i.e., state troopers) etc. I like the way he brings the utter failure of urban planning into the discussion as well.Unless you're one of the techno elites determined to imprison humanity in neat, soulless little boxes, eating vegan and listening to NPR, this book will likely strike a chord. Food for thought, at any rate.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Not All) Change is Good!
*by M***D on December 28, 2021*

Just finished this interesting and eye-opening book by Matthew Crawford. You will like this book if; (1) you love cars and driving (especially, classic cars and motorcycles), (2) you harbor a suspicion about Big Tech’s motives for advancing the “Internet of Things,” and (3) you’re willing to ride Crawford’s meandering road from detailed explanations of a 4-stroke engine (“suck, squeeze, bang, and blow”) to somewhat-too-libertarian-for-my-taste positions on personal freedoms and self-sufficiency. But… if you’ve ever been driving a well-tuned, classic motor down a perfect stretch of road, and experienced the nearly Zen-like state of mind that experience can create, you’ll find a kindred spirit in Matthew Crawford. I’d recommend it with some reservations.

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