Not having a car used to mean you couldn&#x27;t see your friends, and couldn&#x27;t do the things you wanted to when you wanted to.  Finally getting a car basically opened up life.*<p>Now with the internet in your pocket, you can socialize and experience new things at your convenience from wherever.<p>(* = USA-centric.  The country is huge and tends not to have good public transport except a few of the densest urban pockets.  Even our big cities are massively inconvenient without a vehicle of your own.)