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White 13 (0:59)
Topic(s): Car Culture
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Video Transcript
I think the thing is that if you look at the United States,
the way our society works and the way- where people live, the
way they live, is so bound up now in, or with having
relatively cheap at-command transportation also known as your
own car. You know, most places have lousy to no bus systems,
most places have lousy to no railroad, most offices are
distant from where people live. If you work in an office and
even if you work in a factory it's that way.
Yes, some people, a lot of people work out of their homes but
they still shop distant from where they live. All of this, I
mean, you look high and low in American society and I think
it's all kind of predicated on this idea that you don't have
to live anywhere in particular as long as you can drive to
wherever you have to be. It's changed the way our cities are,
it's changed urban development, you know, sprawl, all that
stuff.
