i enjoy hitchhiking.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, hitching, or autostop) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle. A ride is usually, but not always, free. Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today. The hitchhikers' methods of signaling to drivers differ around the world. Many hitchhikers use various hand signals. If the hitchhiker wishes to indicate that he needs a ride, he may simply make a physical gesture or display a written sign. In North America, United Kingdom and most of Europe, the gesture involves extending the arm toward the road and sticking the thumb of the outstretched hand upward with the hand closed. For example, in the US and UK, they point their thumb up. In some African countries, the hand is held still with the palm facing upwards. In other parts of the world, such as Australia, it is more common to use a gesture where the index finger is pointed at the road. Hitchhiking is a historically common (autonomous) practice worldwide and hence there are very few places in the world where laws exist to restrict it.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hitchhiking is so fascinating to me, since it really doesn't seem like an effective means of transportation to just ask strangers for rides over and over."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That seems like a terrible way to get around especially this day and age. You can't seem to trust a lot of people."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The worst part about it is that even though it is successful in some cases, in some cases the rides aren't even free."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, seems like it might take longer to get where you need to go anyway, especially when you have to take what you can get even if it's a short distance."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Despite all of this, itinerants have used hitchhiking as their primary way of traveling for the last hundred years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess it works for some people. I wouldn't feel safe picking up a hitchhiker and I guess it works the other way around sometimes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wouldn't feel too safe either. I feel like signaling drivers would be hard, especially since the methods of signaling them differ around the world."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is true. Plus the weather conditions might be poor, and it is never a good idea to be out at night where others can't see you."}]