People didn’t need cars for the thousands of years humans existed before their invention.
We structured society to depend on cars. That was largely a mistake, and one that can be solved.
We structured society to depend on cars. That was largely a mistake, and one that can be solved.
Also, your (valid!) point that a horse is "wildly more inefficient than a car", how does a car stack up to an ebike, in daily use, in total lifecycle (including disposal), and in land usage?
You sweat only from thinking about moving out of the shade.
Electric bicycle are poor alternative to e-motorbikes, and even the wind at 120 km/h does little help regarding warm weather.
For the most part people walked or more recently used a train or trolley. Now we have bicycles and it turns out if you don't spend trillions designing your towns and cities for the benefit of the auto industry you can get where you're going on a bike or train faster than if you do and use a car because you don't have to spread everything out.