text: I bet fewer than 1% of readers ever lived with demanding professional lives w/o a car. In Boston, Mother of much Rail’s anecdotal “evidence”, to boot. It taught me this
  Big Box transport is a perfect flu/disease vector. Cars’ isolation isn’t. We’ve never been as sick as often as then
  Big Box transport is fragile. One line blocked (especially w/ your car) blocks all pathways home for everyone: Good roads and cars offer infinite pathways between all points
  People packaged in Big Box transport are efficient terrorist targets. 300 a pop in a French train v. at best, a handful, one at a time till police shoot you
  Internet designers considered packaging messages in containers sent at scheduled intervals twixt back bone computers, or breaking every message into identical-sized, semi-intelligent pieces that found their own path to a destination where they’re reassembled. They picked the car approach. More efficient & provided greater survivability than transporting messages in Big Box pkgs.