Where are you at seven on Monday morning? If you're like most of the working population, you're waking up to work. Cut to eight, the car starts up and sets off to join the morning commute. During your daily routine, sitting in your car becomes repetitive and your thoughts start to wander. During this questioning, the thought of unlimited speed and unclogged highways overflows into every corner of your brain, but the traffic starts moving again and those thoughts dissipate. This anecdote is an example of cultural value, specifically, the value of freedom; the freedom to drive fast. The problem with this type of value is that it can violate another person's personal value, security. Many nations therefore have different perspectives on what freedom means for them regarding roads and driving. A nation's perspective on the value of freedom is directly related to the safety of its streets. The construction of Das Autobahn reflects the German national perspective on the value of freedom. Germans, one might argue, consider leadership a national value. This mentality is visible in their highway layout. The beginnings of the motorway network began before World War II. This period is when the car made its debut to the general public. By putting a strain on crumbling dirt roads, the car forces the government to think outside the box and find new ways to move the massive amounts of traffic expected in the future. The government finds a stretch of road built along the Rhine that serves as their vision (Oster 45). This vision of freedom, built along the Rhine, allows all of Germany to interconnect with each other through this highway system. The German government wastes no time on bureaucracy and... middle of paper... Security Administration fig. 1). There is a connection between driver training and value creation for the value of the freedom to drive. The value of freedom is very important to have in a society. Without freedom, society would be a dystopia. A dystopia means that nothing is done for pleasure, every action is done out of necessity. The way America perceives freedom of travel, especially driving and roads, creates drivers and roads built according to law. Law only erodes value within value. Without meaning, driving becomes something that people have the right to participate in because they are 18 years old. Without meaning, road construction becomes a necessity and there is no value in their existence beyond the logistical aspect. Driving and building roads must become something that we, as a nation, take pride in and value just as we take pride in and value the right to free speech.