Get busy: 5 things you can do without getting out of your car

For better or worse, once a car appears in a family, it completely conquers personal space, becomes an indispensable friend and helper. Well, due to (what to hide) a lot of traffic and, not only on weekdays, in Kyiv, Dnipro, Lvov, Kharkov and Odessa, it also turns into a motor home.

In the spring, when it’s not so cold that it doesn’t even show on the street, but it’s still not warm enough for long walks (we already wrote about the beauties of Kiev, for example, where the sidewalks are equipped with anti-parking barriers, and the road lanes for cyclists are equipped with soft rubber parking columns, flexible poles), the author of our blog wondered how many useful things and with the help of what services can be done without leaving the car.

The first and, perhaps, the most important thing is to refuel: thanks to mobile applications, you choose the number of liters of gasoline, pay with a card and voila ... we can drive around the city at least all day long

The second basic need (according to Maslow, ha ha!) Is food. McDrive is here to help everyone, though of course it's not an everyday option.

Coffee - so different, so invigorating and so necessary so as not to lose enthusiasm during the day. Right in the car will be served in KFC or in the same Mac.

Tunnel car wash - and your car shines in the sun. We have already bought coffee, so why leave the car. We hand over passwords:

     st. Bolshaya Okruzhnaya, 2D (CarWash)

     st. Nikolay Grinchenko, 18B/3 ("4 minutes")

     st. Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska, 10 ("Smart Miyka")

     Pobeda Ave., 53 (Ramin Auto)

Entertainment is next. We're going to the cinema. Choose:

     Pobedy Ave., 44 (Dovzhenko Film Studio)

     st. Dneprovskaya Embankment, 18

     Ring road, 14

Well, we have listed the promised five types of useful pastime in the car. Now a little history.

For example, the first drive-through bank appeared in Missouri in 1928. At that time, there were no street polymer sidewalk barriers and rubber flexible parking posts, but people already understood that road comfort is a necessary thing in urban space. And entertainment for people who do not want to leave the car was also interested many years ago. Back in 1999, at the Panorama exhibition in the Netherlands, the attraction “Ferris Wheel” was presented, in which a car was supposed to drive along with the owner to the platform.

There are drive-through polling stations in California, and near Los Angeles there is even a chapel. Las Vegas offers a newlyweds painting service without leaving the car.

And after that, who will say that such inventions of the tech world as anti-ram shockproof bollards, polymer anti-parking bollards (metal bollards in a polymer casing) or sidewalk bollards, recoverable flexible parking bollards are new? Of course, cities are developing rapidly, and such high-tech traffic controllers are simply a “must have” for a metropolis anywhere in the world.