This statement is incorrect, if posed in the general form, as a distinction needs to be made between cultures where public transport is core (eg. some parts of

This statement is incorrect, if posed in the general form, as a distinction needs to be made between cultures where public transport is core (eg. some parts of Europe), or individual transport is (eg. some parts of USA). I don't doubt that in the latter it's hard to live without a car, but in the former, you can definitely live without it, and use other means for the exceptional cases.