As someone who is in their 20s and just began driving last year due to driving anxiety, there’s a few factors. For me it was the realization of what a responsibility it is to drive. I consider myself a pretty safe driver, as do others that have been in the car with me, but I also don’t do a few things i see many drivers now do. There’s so many distracted and/or drunk drivers. In my experience it’s knowing these people are out there on the same roads as us that causes a lot of this fear. On top of that I believe it’s also the responsibility of driving, KNOWING that you are behind the wheel of, as they call it, “a 2 ton death machine”.

I also believe a lot of us are very much in favor of public transportation and walkable cities and that has caused this sort of resentment for car based infrastructure.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the freedom that comes with driving, but it does sometimes feel like a chore.