[bcjdjsndon]

> You found one thing

And you found one other "thing"

Actually even today it's 80/20, but lorries carry far more stuff than cars do, so you need less lorries.

And the inverse is also true, horse and cart was used for personal transport as well

[runarberg]

Horse and cart was used for a personal transport very rarely, by a tiny subset of the population for a minority of their trips, the vast majority of the population lived within a walking distance for the vast majority of their trips, the invention of the steam engine ruined that and suddenly people started living within a tram-ride for vast majority of their trips, and started using trains to go on longer trips they simply couldn’t do before. The car took this to the extreme, and ruined the cities on a scale which the tram was previously unable to.

[bcjdjsndon]

> and ruined the cities on a scale which the tram was previously unable to.

Industrial era London was not a utopia. Read a Dickens novel. It was a hellhole. The car also made the suburbs possible. They kill millions every year but the benefits massively outweigh it (or at least society has effectively voted for that).