Exactly! Like the only freedom having a car gives you that couldn't be done better with a better built public transportation is that you have privacy and can carry home more groceries but even that can be taken care of. What if we had metro systems with private carriages for each passenger? And what if we could own our own shopping carts and take them around like bikes or scooters? Some scooters have mini carts in them but I mean like a bigger one. Other than that maybe private cars are useful if you want to camp out into the wilderness but those should be like private planes, only available to hobbyists with a special license or whatever and not something functional people should feel obligated to get. Even in spite of how inefficient it is I feel a lot of freedom with public transit. For example when I go to L.A., I buy a bus ticket for only 20 dollars and I don't have to worry about parking and I get a lot of exercise. The one thing that sucks is that if I don't catch the last bus home around midnight I'm stuck there until morning either inside an uncomfortable bus station or out cold in the streets like I was last month when I went to a Danny Elfman concert for my birthday and the return ticket had the wrong address printed on it so I ended up missing the bus and stranded on the streets of Long Beach until 4 in the morning. If more people had to depend on public transport that would be open all night and the freeways would be replaced with metro systems. Hopefully underground so it tears up less environment. That was the main difference between L.A. and San Diego trolleys that I've noticed; you don't get the nice view when taking the L.A. underground metro, you have to climb up and then be shocked by the bright colors and music of Hollywood Boulevard. Maybe the silver lining of this mass disabling event is that more people will be unable to drive and therefore dependent on public transport. Or maybe that will spur demand for autonomous vehicles instead. I don't trust AI at this stage. It's still stuck at the level of a human while asleep and dreaming but not lucidly. We haven't figured out how to wake it up yet.