That’s largely because the built environment is designed for cars and there are no sufficient alternatives.
When you design the built environment for humans people drive less and own fewer personal vehicles.
When you design the built environment for humans people drive less and own fewer personal vehicles.
We may end up building a world where AI is similarly necessary. The AI companies would certainly like that. But at the moment we still have a choice. The more people exercise their agency now the more likely we are to retain that agency in the future.
It seemed to me that regardless of the city, many people will drive until the point where traffic jams and parking become a nightmare, and only then consider the alternatives. This point of pain is much lower in old European cities that weren't built as car-centric and much higher in the US, but the pattern seems to repeat itself.