Originally Posted by
cooker
Actually it is kind of like drug free. You don't keep opiates in the house or use them whenever you feel like it, but you do use them when you break your leg or have a heart attack. Similarly, you don't keep a car at home for daily use, but you do use one for extraordinary circumstances.
yes I have come to realize that it is mostly just words and the definition changes with the person. There are some that would use Uber or Lyft everyday and call themselves car free. It doesn’t track with me personally so I almost always have to ask after hearing car free what that means. Not using a car or not using a car the person owns? The latter seems to be the real definition.
The There are those that have proposed that if we ever get self driving cars that will be car free even if it replaces mass transit. That will add to the definition I guess.
At least that is what I take away from someone saying they are car free, something I don’t hear in my daily conversation with others in the real world.