"It's certainly not hard to learn how to drive well, but most people in our country don't bother and treat it instead as a mindless activity," she says.
Even crossing the state line doesn't necessarily ensure safer driving conditions, as Daphne M. Reeve '02 well knows.
"Last year, driving up to Maine for Thanksgiving, I hit a deer," she writes in an e-mail message. "I totaled the hood--hit the deer on the front passenger side."
"It was really scary, and I hope never to have a repeat of that experience."
Moreover, friends can be all too willing to share your vehicle.
"Some people are noticeably friendlier once they find out that I'm a potential chauffeur," Wilkinson says.
But the most common problem encountered by car-owning Harvard students is simply finding a place to put their vehicle.
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