Reply #9: And traffic wouldn't be so bad were it not for all the vehicles on the road.

[damntexdem]

But the issue is that for many decades, we have been structuring our built environment so as to REQUIRE driving so much. For example, Los Angeles originally developed to fit to the streetcar -- it was after WWII that it metastasized to fit to the automobile. The Dallas area, where I live, is the same, just on a smaller scale. We are not going to be ABLE to rely more on automobiles unless we rebuild our cities, and return to intercity passenger rail -- in modern form, as has been developed in many other countries.