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Cars are the ultimate mode of transportation. When I go to the store I drive my car. Then when I have to go from the parking lot to the store itself I drive another car. Then when I have to move around the store I drive another smaller car.
This is ridiculous. I should be able to drive my F150 inside the store as well.
it's genuinely so dystopian to me that some Americans are forced to use a car from their houses to the store... they have to spend money on petrol every time they just wanna get a little something from a corner store. talk about a restrictive society... I get why delivery apps are popular there.
Every part of my life is monetized and I'm screaming.
Hah, imagine a corner store...
And there it is.
Mind you, different pressures make different designs. Part of the reason the Netherlands has great mass transit is they got bombed to hell in WWII. The cities were also initially grown out of medieval designs.
Yeah, and part of the reason many American cities are car dependent hellscapes is because they ripped out earlier public transit in exchange for "more individual freedom" in the form of being forced to pilot multi-ton death machines through heavy traffic to get to anything that isn't more houses. (Yes, I am aware that this is a case of hindsight being 20/20, and the people who did that didn't know all the things we know now and thus were extraordinarily myopic, but many European cities (including Amsterdam IIRC) did similar things, but they mostly had the good sense to put it back.)
(To be clear, you are also correct.)