&gt; That cars enable upward mobility and easy access to jobs devoid of the ever reaching control from the central planning agencies?<p>Suburbs have extreme central planning. Go peruse your local town&#x27;s zoning and land use ordinances. You&#x27;ll see exactly the number of parking spaces you must provide, exactly how big your lawn must be at a minimum, how many apartments you can have in an apartment building (or if it&#x27;s even allowed to build an apartment building), whether or not you can charge for parking, and even where it&#x27;s legal to walk.<p>No, cars didn&#x27;t free you from central planning. They enslaved you to it and tricked you into thinking cars are free market transportation.