>>1968645By the time you're able to get your license your childhood is gone. The reason we have so many Man Children is because the suburban experience robbed people of their childhood.
The reason why boomers called the car a gateway of freedom is because they were confined to sterile neighborhoods they were caged up in.
Boomers like to think that their childhood & Adolescence years were the movie "Grease" in reality it was conformity like the movie "A Summer Place".