Another previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8111353" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8111353</a><p>Me and my scientist buddies came back from Galveston, Texas with a lot of stories about how Police addressed us while walking, how we were threatened and made people feel very threatened by walking into a drive through, how we couldn&#x27;t cross a road in a large shopping area anywhere (one was supposed to drive between parking lots), how at 3 in the morning the streets were still full of cars.<p>Here in the Netherlands we bike but I had a student from Bulgaria who had absolutely no trouble walking an hour to work. American culture is very car oriented, drive through ATMs, drive through pharmacies and yes I talked to someone who went to a drive through funeral, just sign the register hanging out the window, nod to the casket and drive on.<p>Perhaps it has to do also with the fact that in Europe for example many city centers are not even accessible by car because they were build hundreds of year before cars existed?