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The United States, Canada and others are too sprawling and sparse for that. Cars are going to be a fact of life for a very long time yet. As far as helping to solve climate change, cars are part of it, but I wish people paid much more attention to the larger contributor: Agriculture. I often get the feeling that people think changing cars to electric will solve the problem. It's important and helps, but it's just one…
Europe is also large, and there is much better public transportation. If the US really wanted to replace cars, the US could replace cars. The problem is we equate cars with 'freedom', so we are doomed to live forever in the past until that changes (or we destroy ourselves)
It's not just 'freedom'. It's a practical matter given the vast distances between even individual houses in certain parts of the US. Europe, as a whole, is large, but European nations individually are not very big in relation to a lot of US states. People should absolutely be able to travel within their countries however best suits them.