CARS are the problem.
People are "tied" to their cars.
They can live 1 block from the store, and they DRIVE there.
So people build freeways so that we could drive our cars !
And, so we left the public transit and trains.
Who needs them, when we have cars!
Once we turn 18 we're expected to have our own car;
Everyone must have their own car.
And so the cars let us explore further...