User:Average/Transport

The hacker aesthetic eschews excess, having a car is very drab and uncool -- unless you made it yourself and replaced the engine design. Public transport is generally more efficient, believe it or not. You don't have to worry about parking (neither finding a spot nor $$), you can walk somewhere and step back onto the bus somewhere else rather than walking back to your parking spot, and there's no asset sitting unprotected on some street.

The true costs for a car is about $0.50 a mile once you factor in insurance premiums, tire replacements, oil changes, gasoline, and amortization of used sale price, and gas/electricity, and break-downs. That's a median value, it ranges from $0.30 (if you're lucky) to about $0.65 (if you live in an average city).

But hey, maybe you like to work out. It's hard not to be impressed by someone who's ditched the gasoline lifestyle and sports a bike. The true, hard-core elite use a fixed or mono-gear design -- it's sleek, sheds unnecessary hardware, and lite. It's a category that takes some genuine commitment to perfect and dangerous if you don't. Try to set up some correlary aids, like hackerlofts and housing co-ops.