>I think everyone must have felt this way about automobiles. And by and large, it's worked out just as horribly as they imagined: our communities are divided by dangerous moats we call "roads" -- death traps which we must painstakingly teach our children to avoid, if we dare let our children wander outside on their own anywhere near them in the first place.

Yep, JFYI, an excerpt from "Autophobia":

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/467412.html