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As you may have noticed, one of my obsessions is how car culture has so deeply saturated American popular culture that most people don't even notice they're drowning in it. (I suppose that's what "culture" means — the unquestioning acceptance of stuff because "it's always been that way.") After all, no American alive can recall the days when our cities were not choked by cars, so it's completely natural to not think about how we could all be living different, better, car-free lives.