SunWuKung420 posted... This is such a dumb statement.
Humans invented cars.
He means that it's not "natural" for humans to learn how to operate or fix one. It's a complex skill that must be learned from an expert.
All humans eventually learn certain skills (fine motor skills like walking, standing, understanding gravity, natural reflexes to respond to stimuli, like recognizing a snake)...
If a person is raised in a community, especially as a baby, listening and recognition skills come first. Then the child can eventually produce limited degrees of human speech. Speech continues to develop, but only if the child continues to maintain contact within that community. Reading and writing skills can eventually be developed.
That's assuming the child has a typical experience. Supposing the child were deaf, then the communicative experience could become entirely different, such as through sign language. However, even something like sign language is not completely and inherently natural. It is a skill that must be learned.
There is a degree to which language is natural and to where it is not natural. Some languages are natural. Others are constructed.
Some constructed languages have even become natural languages, if you can imagine that. There's this persistent trait where speakers of some constructed languages, like Esperanto, have begun altering words or rules in an irregular manner (irregular words, conjugations, patterns, et cetera)... There is evidence of a human trait or capacity for language, in which the "natural" human touch of language will even alter artificial or constructed languges.
In American Sign Language, there are several dialectal signs for the same ideas or expressions (two to three different signs for "firefighter," for example).
Soto say what is "natural" or what is "not natural" depends on the definition being used.
Humans did invent cars, yes. But vehicles are not inherently "natural" to humans.
Tools are. Vehicles are essentially a complex combination of toolsat its simplest limited components, ignition with a fuel type in combination with wheels and axles. Vehicles are effectively an extremely complex tool developed over several generations of humanity.
Operating a vehicle properly requires complex cognitive capabilities. Fixing one also requires some degree of cognitive and physical effort.
Knowing how to repair a vehicle requires physical strength, tools, and relatively advanced knowledge, more than what it seems. Taking a wheel off of a vehicle may seem like a simple task, but it requires complex understanding, cognition, and physical strength to accomplish the task.
Remove any one of those components, and the task cannot be completed. Ask a three year old to change a tire (lack of strength and likely lack of understanding), and you will see the child fail. Similarly, ask a 95-year-old (who may understand the task, but who may lack physical strength), and such a request could also fail.
It's the same reason why a person cannot drive and send a text message on a cell phone at the same time. Both of these things seem simple in description or appearance, but they are cognitively demanding tasks.
Even something like reading these sentences and paragraphs requires complex cognition. The more a skill is practiced, the easier it is for a human to repeat the skill. But that doesn't reduce how complex the skill is.
All of this to saywhat the other person simply meant was that fixing a flat tire requires someone to teach it to you.
Some people simply haven't learned or haven't been taught.