Hitchhiking with strangers just seems like a dangerous thing to do
For sure. I feel that hitchhiking is a high risk, but low reward in the form of temporary transportation.
Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle. A ride is usually, but not always, free.
Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today.
Signaling methods.
- Signals used by hitchhikers
Hitchhikers use a variety of signals to indicate they need a ride. Indicators
and the media would have done little, if anything, to inform the public about the tragedies along the road."
Recommendation reports.
Numerous municipalities and 23 First Nations communities border the Highway of Tears. The rural region is plagued with poverty and lacks public transportation; many residents turn to hitchhiking as a form of transit or partake in high risk lifestyles to survive.
Poverty and a lack of public transit has forced many disadvantaged Aboriginal women to turn to hitchhiking as a cheap means of transportation along Highway 16.