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I like this post a lot, it provides some interesting thoughts on the car-debate (including in the comments).

(Background: Full year bicyclist in the US Northeast)

It was a treasure to me when I heard a friend explain "I don't have a license, I know my ADHD would make me an unsafe driver". It was the first time I'd ever heard someone admit that they wouldn't be good at driving and so didn't, it was extremely empowering to have that articulated and something I could roll over in my mind. As things stand now, I think I am a decent driver, but it takes a _lot_ of mental energy for me and I have never owned a car --driving infrequently with a borrowed vehicle helps me to keep it a novelty (and therefore easier to focus on) than it would be if it was my primary source of transit.

So yeah, chiming in as "disabled* and regular cars is worse for me than not-cars"

~Sor

*I consider my ADHD to be disabling, in that it costs me an extraordinary amount of time, energy, and money. I've seen the conversations about whether ADHD would exist without capitalism, and I don't agree with them --there are enough joyful personal projects that have been taken away from me due to my own limitations, even while medicated, that while abolishing capitalism would fix many things, it wouldn't fix me.