Not everybody has a choice or an option, there are so many places in the US where the place you live absolutely necessitates the use of a car to do literally anything related to living your life
People have the choice to move. I’m sick of this “no choice” horseshit people do to justify unsafe driving.
“Well bonking baby heads with a hammer is the only job here so I have to do that. I’m not a bad guy I’ve got no choice”
Unless you live on a little island with no trees to fashion a raft from, but plenty of baby bonking jobs, you can go to a different town.