"People want door-to-door personal transportation... and they have ever since the car was invented." Really?! Byzantines didn't want door-to-door personal tran

"People want door-to-door personal transportation... and they have ever since the car was invented." Really?! Byzantines didn't want door-to-door personal transportation? Spanish conquistadors? Ancient Greeks? The Han Dynasty? It is and has always been simply too expensive in personal and social costs for everyone to have personal door-to-door transportation.