> 2 miles to drop our kid at school In a bike-friendly country, you'd do that by bike, not by car. Of course, if your whole world is built around owning and

> 2 miles to drop our kid at school In a bike-friendly country, you'd do that by bike, not by car. Of course, if your whole world is built around owning and using a car, then doing this by bike becomes dangerous and doing this by car becomes less insane. Then you find our you're dedicating a very large portion of the ground to those machines you use twice a day for 10 minutes - making them unfit for other purposes the remaining 23 hours and 40 minutes. I really like driving - but I really like the outside to be fit for other things than driving as well. American suburbia falls way too far short of that.