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grimhilde00 posted...

maybe we should have better public transit options for cities and burbs over half a century ago so we can be more efficient

We're barely willing to pay for necessary infrastructure maintenance now, the impetus to build "unnecessary" infrastructure up certainly wouldn't have been there then.

Though that's always going to be a problem because of how fundamentally "the car" changed nearly every facet of modern life in ways most people today barely comprehend. Things like suburbs and grocery stores and fast food and "dating" and the entire modern concept of the teenager mostly only exist as we know them because of how cars radically changed culture. Things you would never mentally associate with cars have been irrevocably shaped by them.

Getting away from the dominance of car dependence would basically require a complete restructuring of modern (Western) culture as a whole. Cell phones are starting to have an impact along those lines, but it's an ongoing process, and there's always going to be growing pains. But it also means it's far harder to just cut out or replace cars than most people realize.