[momokoko]

That is a vox article. It's fun to read and gets a lot of shares on social media. But it wildly exaggerates reality and wildly downplays that massive demand and growth in car ownership during that period.

The idea that everyone hated cars and the evil car lobby came in and forced it upon them is flat out incorrect.

[yazboo]

> The idea that everyone hated cars and the evil car lobby came in and forced it upon them is flat out incorrect.

This idea is not present in the article and is a wild exaggeration of your own.

[smt88]

I don't see the article claiming people hated cars.

What the auto industry accomplished was to push the government to favor cars to the eventual exclusion of almost every other form of transit.

Even if people didn't hate cars, this still wasn't a fair fight in an open market. It was an industry co-opting consumer and voter power.

[petersellers]

You'll probably convince more people by citing evidence to support your claims instead of using ad homs.

[momokoko]

Literally and chart about automobile ownership from 1940 to 1980.

[MereInterest]

Such a chart would in no manner prove your point. Something can become prevalent could be because (a) it is the preferred option out of many equivalent and equally available options or (b) it is the chosen option due to having been given preferentially treatment. Given that your time period contains Eisenhower's expansion of the federal highway system, option (b) is the more reasonable interpretation.

[momokoko]

We've seen the phenomenon globally.

[coldtea]

Not in the way it is in the US...

Even Paris discussed in TFA is 10 times better than 99% of American cities... and most of European cities are even better walkability wise...