You're assuming that the thesis is that we need to move to a 100%-car-free society tomorrow. I doubt anyone is calling for that, mainly because, like you say, t

You're assuming that the thesis is that we need to move to a 100%-car-free society tomorrow. I doubt anyone is calling for that, mainly because, like you say, that's impossible. Everything we've built for the last 80 years has been built under the assumption of pervasive car use. I take the thesis more like: "Cars are really expensive. We should stop pretending that they are not."