Odd sentence, ain't it, but also like half the reasoning why people keep buying ever bigger cars and trucks.
The other half is "some other schmuck thinking this will snuff me out", which, fair, but how do you not arrive at the conclusion the eternal arms race of weight and height with cars is like, super bad?
unironically a good way of thinking about it
A bicycle is an appropriately individual vehicle in that is a 1 Human power vehicle to carry 1 human rather than 100 horsepower vehicle to carry uh 1 human