Human photography essay

The Best Car is No Car

A lot of us are car hungry. We want the perfect or best car.

But what if the best car were no car?

Do we even need a car in today’s brave new COVID world?

No more commuting. The death of commuting into an office. So what’s the point of getting a Tesla with self driving functionality if you don’t even need to commute to work anymore? No more facilities or clubs are open now … so no opportunity to drive your car somewhere to stunt or flex.

To be able to live WITHOUT a car is the ultimate flex.

Remember back in the day we used to think having a chauffeur or a limousine driver was the ultimate luxury? Now with Uber and Lyft … we got it! Isn’t it better to just Uber everywhere and NOT need a car, or even have the luxury of living in a downtown city where you can just walk everywhere? Or the luxury of getting your groceries delivered to your door like Peapod.com here in the East Coast?

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.