text: Take Vauban, Germany for example. They have given up cars in their city. People can still own cars but you have pay $40,000 just to park the car "at the edge of the development ...along with a [house]." A mother of two, who lived in Vauban, said that " when [she] had a car, [she] was always tense." (source 1) If the U.S. started doing this stores would be able to be placed on a main street, rather than on a highway 20 minutes from the closest nighborhood.