Cars may be fashion statements, but also: they are loud; they are expensive; they sit unused most of the time; their emissions are a health hazard; their production and use is a disaster for the environment; they cause terrible city planning; they are unusable by children, the elderly, the disabled, the poor, many tourists, etc.; and most importantly they are killing machines, one of the leading causes of death.<p>The reason people like cars is mostly that they are currently economically necessary tools in many parts of the world. Once that is no longer true, there will be many people happy to ditch their cars.