I Want to Drive Like a French Teenager

America’s vehicular imagination is too limited

George Dillard
6 min readJun 10, 2024

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A Citroen Ami; Photo by John K (CC 4.0)

The school I work at occasionally hosts kids from France and Spain as part of a language-exchange program. The most recent group was fascinated with our American school buses. Some of the students said that they couldn’t believe that American kids actually rode to school in them.

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