Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of national income, coupled with the continuous development of the automobile industry, the mainland has more and more car ownership, the mainland has become the country with the largest number of car ownership in the world, becoming a veritable "car country", the car from the beginning of the design of a single transportation attribute, gradually evolved into a symbol of identity, money, for ordinary car owners, we have to ponder a question, in the end in addition to the transportation function, what function does the car have?
In fact, if this question is said in other words, it can also be simply understood as how big the life changes and differences between when you "own the car" and "after the car". The world's earliest automobile was born in The United Kingdom in 1826, and in the course of more than a hundred years today, the automobile has indeed changed the entire history of mankind, and also changed the daily travel style and lifestyle of ordinary people.
In the automotive industry, there is a saying that "the difference between luxury cars and ordinary cars is only a small step, but there is a big step between a car and no car", so how big is the difference between "before the car" and "after the car"? Let's compare it directly.
Difference 1: Differences in time efficiency
Although public transportation has been quite perfect today, buses, subways, urban rail and other modes of travel provide people with choices, but although the development of public transportation in the mainland is fast, there are still regional differences, like the public transportation coverage of first- and second-tier large cities is almost perfect, but it is extremely inconvenient to come to rural areas or urban-rural junctions.
At this time, the superiority of having a car is clearly reflected, in addition to commuting without squeezing the bus, squeezing the subway transfer, even if it is particularly convenient to go to the suburbs, for the owners of daily needs to run customers, before owning the car and after owning the car, the difference in time efficiency is not small, at least 2-3 hours of commuting time can be saved every day.
Difference two: the increase in the radius of life
This is easy to understand, when you don't have a car, the daily and weekly radius of life is fixed at two points and a line, in addition to the company is home, it is not easy to stay at home on the weekend and prefer to stay at home to play, want to go out to play, a little closer to the place and get tired of playing, farther away to take a bus, high-speed rail and even planes, it is too inconvenient.
However, after having a car, the entire radius of life has been improved in an instant, from the original radius of 5 kilometers to a range of 300 kilometers, on weekends, you can drive a family to travel around, and it is not limited by time and place, and life has become much more colorful.
Difference three: Travel has become more flexible
Although the public transportation mentioned earlier is convenient, but public transportation is not 24 hours a day can be operated anytime and anywhere, there are also downtime time in the middle of the night, sometimes the family encounters unexpected situations need to go out in the middle of the night, in addition to taxis and online car-hailing there is almost no other way.
But after owning a car, the travel time is no longer limited, even if the company works overtime until late at night, do not have to worry about the problem of going home, the most important point is that there is still half a month to go to the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival is about to start, every year always have to carry a large bag and a small bag to squeeze the high-speed rail plane is also very inconvenient, especially for families with children, but after having a car, it has become much more flexible, when you want to go home, take more luggage and don't have to worry.
Difference four: the cost of expenses has increased
The first three points only mention the advantages of "after having a car", in fact, after having a car, it does greatly facilitate our lives, but the only drawback is that the cost of living has increased, as the saying goes, "it is easy to buy a car and it is difficult to maintain a car", after buying a car, it means that it is not to spend more than 100,000 yuan to buy a car.
In fact, after buying a car, you also have to face maintenance fees, maintenance fees, insurance premiums, parking fees, traffic violation fines, fuel costs, etc. The cost of depreciation is not included, in today's era of high housing prices, many people also have to shoulder the cost of mortgages and raising children, so they do not have a certain economic strength, in fact, raising a car is still a costly thing, we must also clearly know this before buying a car.
summary:
All in all, the emergence of cars has greatly facilitated our lives, changed people's living habits and travel styles, and promoted economic development, but in other words, is it really necessary to buy cars?
In fact, this problem varies from person to person, for daily commuting does not need a car, buy a car just to play and for the face of the family, in fact, buying a car can not only improve life, but also become a "burden" of life, every month to increase the cost of futile expenses.
But for families who need to commute by car on a daily basis, buying a car can save us time, although it is a little more expensive, but it also facilitates our lives.
Finally, to give you a small suggestion, when buying a car, if there is no business reception or special needs, ordinary families do not need to pursue luxury cars too much, buying a scooter in the range of 80,000-150,000 yuan is enough, how do you agree with this? Feel free to leave your comments and opinions in the comments section.