I heard bicycles works great with bootstraps. Maybe you should suggest bootstraps as well - they'd probably do the trick!
Have you ever been to the rural US? Things are very far apart (often 10s of miles) and riding a bike may not be practical for things in the same way as in an urban or suburban area.
Yep - this. I wasn't even in /that/ rural of an area, but I was still ~20 miles (32 Kilometers) away from the nearest testing center. No vehicle to take myself.