We don’t often have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the infrastructure was created so you could drive anywhere in the country, and other forms of transportation were marginalized.

Having a car in America is honestly the door to the greatest freedom of movement available to you. It’s no suprise people here start to conflate cars with freedom.

Getting most of us to realize the car centric world we live in restricts our freedom is like trying to wake someone up from the Matrix.