Most of the planet isn't American and does fine without one. Infrastructure in the US is designed in a specific way to prop up the auto industry and the increas

Most of the planet isn't American and does fine without one. Infrastructure in the US is designed in a specific way to prop up the auto industry and the increasing size of cars continues to do so. It will take a long time to undo, but there are billions of people living in communities that don't require any car, let alone some 3-4 ton monstrosity (~80% of the world owns no car at all). Previous to the race to drive the biggest car on the road, even in the US cars were not as large. The common refrain is that safety features inflated the size, which is partially true, but wildly overstated considering there are plenty of smaller cars available today. There's nothing special about the US that makes cars a requirement by nature.