Technological-advancement could (and should) SAVE car-dependent-infrastructure, not destroy it.

The automobile is the single best thing about modern life. Full stop.

Being able to take your family anywhere, and being able to buy anything you want while you’re there; and then being able to actually, bring it back home with you???

Why are so many people seemingly just “happy” to get rid of such a previously unimaginable luxury?

With technologies like 3D-printing (replacement-parts for existing-vehicles, and potentially even entirely-3D-printed-vehicles), carbon-neutral-fuels for internal-combustion-engines (be honest, NOBODY is happy with electric cars. 40minutes to fill your gas tank? Seriously? Let’s be honest with ourselves here), and A.I (mathematical-solutions will definitely exist for the problems with car-dependant-infrastructure: traffic, parking, vehicle-safety, etc. And it’s completely reasonable to think that A.I will be able to find them. Whether it’s new layouts for city-planning, or new technologies that enable building roads underground/better-engineered and better-laid-out overpasses, and new and improved safety features); why is it that people are SO closed-minded to the idea that our grandchildren could get enjoy the same lifestyles that our parents and grandparents had?

I can easily envision a future where Europe and Asia embrace the car, rather than North-America embracing the “walkability-index”.

Yet I NEVER see this discussed anywhere?

Is this just due to the current-political-climate in the west?

Or the due to the general “political leanings” of the scientific “community” as a whole?

If you’ve also ever given any thought to this topic, I’d love to hear about it.