How the Car Keeps Americans Apart
I personally love driving - but I work from home.  Nothing makes me happier than remote starting my F150 and hearing its V8 roar from inside the house through several walls&#x2F;doors.<p>Have kids?  When your kid spikes a fever at 1am and you have no car and you need to go buy some children’s ibuprofen, what are you going to do? I can run to my local 24&#x2F;7 grocer or Walmart and be back in 10 minutes flat.<p>My son had a bad reaction to a doctor prescribed medicine and had a seizure early one morning.  We were at the hospital in 15 minutes thanks to the modern automobile.  We don’t live in a city because we consciously chose the suburbs.  I grew up in a walkable city and getting my first car was still one of the highlights of my youth.<p>Now my kids play soccer and they practice and play 4 days&#x2F;week all over the local area.  Good luck doing that without a car.<p>The freedom&#x2F;flexibility a car provides us as individuals is unprecedented in human history.  You can drive from NY to LA in 41 hours and you are on your own schedule.<p>For the folks that don’t like driving, you have plenty of cities to choose from where that’s doable.  That’s the beauty of modern society - the choice is yours and we don’t have to judge&#x2F;demonize one another’s choices.