Yes but that never caught on - your premise is flawed. The polluting, antisocial, and climate effects of the car meant is was no more than a fad, popular for a

Yes but that never caught on - your premise is flawed. The polluting, antisocial, and climate effects of the car meant is was no more than a fad, popular for a few generations in the early Anthropocene before dying out. Perhaps if teleportation had not been invented in the early 2100s… IANAH.