"A selling point for the car is that it supposedly allows the driver to go anywhere they want at any time; in practice it creates an uneasy mass of cars squeezing along the same highways at the same time, headed for the same destinations. The only personal liberty really left to drivers is the personal liberty to be assholes to one another, and we cling to it desperately."
https://defector.com/every-right-on-red-frays-the-social-contract-a-little-further
The War on Cars
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