[Ericson2314]

Cars are bad, but there are far more people driving a car than working in the automobile industry. The former has a better claim to societal health than the latter.

[mlrtime]

Cars are not "bad", and there are far more people driving than taking public transportation. Most of them prefer it.

[nine_k]

Cars are good in some circumstances, mass transit, in other circumstances. One size does not fit all.

Small, inexpensive cars would also be good in some circumstances, but the US auto industry, for some reason, struggles to offer something as compact as Honda Fit, or at least something as reliable as Toyota Corolla.

[mlrtime]

Agree with you, it would be nice to have small cheap cars, from my understanding it's two main reasons.

1) The amount of safety requirements that the US (and additionally CA) make the margins too low to sell cheap cars.

2) Most people don't want them and won't buy them (myself included).

Although I have lived in multiple towns where "golf carts" are legal and those were cool.