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I like to drive. I like to be on the open road, like in the American Southwest - Arizona, Nevada, Utah. Put your pedal to the metal, no one in front of you, no one in the rear view mirror. Just you and the road.

You will not get that experience much in Denmark, a small country with a lot of people packed into a small area. There\\u2019s not a lot of open land here, not much living off the grid. Which doesn\\u2019t mean drivers don\\u2019t long for it. You\\u2019ll see those open roads in Arizona and Nevada in a lot of Danish TV advertisements.

It\\u2019s frequently said about Denmark that it\\u2019s not a car country. You hear a lot of well-meaning internationals say that in Denmark you don\\u2019t need a car that you can bicycle everywhere you want to go.\\xa0

That is true in the big cities - I don\\u2019t own a car myself. But most of my Copenhagen neighbors do. And cars are pretty much a necessity in the countryside. There are now 2.5 million cars in use in Denmark, roughly one for every other resident over age 18.\\xa0