You’re focusing on these other aspects, not the actual control. I can put my bike in a car, I can ride a bike up a hill or on a dirt trail, a bike is comparatively inexpensive, I can take a bike on a train to another city. Etc.
And it would be even more obvious which form of transportation provides the most control if you had bike-first infrastructure.
But you’re also not accounting for lots of things completely out of your control, like where highways get built, potholes, funding, insurance rates, the price of rubber for new tires, oil changes, gas stations, etc. It’s the illusion of control.
We’ve designed cities specifically so that you can feel like you are in control driving a car. Nothing could be further from the truth.
And it would be even more obvious which form of transportation provides the most control if you had bike-first infrastructure.
But you’re also not accounting for lots of things completely out of your control, like where highways get built, potholes, funding, insurance rates, the price of rubber for new tires, oil changes, gas stations, etc. It’s the illusion of control.
We’ve designed cities specifically so that you can feel like you are in control driving a car. Nothing could be further from the truth.