For hopefully most people, it should be attributed to the "Wait, now I have such a freedom and power?".
Opposite to "before the invention of bicycle, people married within a radius in the order of the mile" (can't remember the exact stat right now).
Opposite to "before the invention of bicycle, people married within a radius in the order of the mile" (can't remember the exact stat right now).
No, it's really that the ability to move at ease is priceless.
If you add pollution impacts, cars double the yearly deaths of guns.
And in a Cost/Risk/Benefit computation, cars remain incommensurately invaluable. Because one's Quality of Life without them would simply be destroyed, comparatively. The moving "castle" (legal term in the USA) can be more important than the house in crucial regards.
The point attempted at post 48501189 remains unintelligible. That cars imply risks and externalities does not clarify it.