[jason0597]

> People wanted cars because, for most of the US, they are the only practical transportation method.

And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-family house zoning, which in turn created the car-dependent culture. It didn't have to be this way, Rotterdam isn't built this way for example.

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> And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-family house zoning, which in turn created the car-dependent culture. It didn't have to be this way, Rotterdam isn't built this way for example.

Could that be because the people actually wanted single-family homes?

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And that the US was a wealthy country with enormous amounts of undeveloped land?