cars serve a purpose and a centralized rental authority in every district would make a lot of sense. while carbrain is a thing, we must never lose sight of the fact that capital gets what it wants in liberal democratic societies and a society in which rail and trolley and tram is replaced by cars represents a society in which capital has determined there is enough wealth to exploit to enforce transport costs upon the individual even upon workers (as in they know they do not risk loss of productivity).

anybody who has sat in the same traffic day after day and month after month knows that they're essentially on a train, it's just that the state has decided they must pay for their own train car and the other choice is waking up at 3:45am to get to work at 8am