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Try carrying a nontrivial amount of baggage on a bike.

(No, the correct answer to this is not "Don't carry luggage." You can't solve a problem by chopping its legs off so it fits in your problem-solving grid.)



So extending your analogy, you prefer travelling by truck over travelling by car ?


Define your problem, and then make your decision.

For this particular example, you can apply this sequence of logic (with thanks to wccrawford):

  if(Baggage)  use a car.
  else if(In a hurry?)  use a car.
  else if(Need to be rested?)  use a car.
  else if(Need to go 150 miles^ or more?) use a car.
  else use a bike.
^ You'll need to set this value yourself ;)




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