Cars have been forced on society by corporations and I fucking hate it. The more I move around, the more it's clear that even in semi rural areas, there's a means of creating a space where they're not a hard requirement.
Obviously, in work and freight, larger means of transportation will be necessary. But forcing that for everyday travel is confounding.
Then again, I don't want to promote the concept of urbanism as some utopia: those structures today make it easy to manufacture what Lorenzo Erwin calls "ghettos of the state composed of free workers" (paraphrased).