Cars have done more to drive social isolation than any other technology in American life. People don't know their neighbors because they're forced to live in far-flung areas, so that boomers can have their single-family homes smack dab in the middle of the most in-demand real estate markets like the SF bay area. AND you're forced to literally travel with an ID *strapped to the back* of your conveyance. Can you imagine how ludicrous it would be if every time you had to walk anywhere you had to wear a windbreaker with a number on it?

Some very interesting points. My gut has always told me that there was something off about the way we live with cars. Most nice walkable neighborhoods look like paradise, and I do find myself wondering what it would look like to have less vehicles.