[eesmith]

You can only make a choice if there is a choice.

The author argues for "a restoration of choice: a campaign to ensure analogue alternatives to digital tools."

If you had a viable choice besides a car (like a combination of mass transit, walking, and bike), would you choose it?

But of course most people in the US cannot make that choice because where they live was, over the last century, designed around cars, and often eliminated choices which were present.

Had those choices remained, there would be more pressure on car manufacturers to build better cars.

Consumers alone aren't going to transform cities into a walkable place.