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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:06AM (#20625260)
> no American parent would dream of letting their children go out alone and recently, this includes even children in their early teens

This is, AFAICT, mostly a white suburban “middle-class” (mid-high income working class, including proletarian intelligentsia, really) attitude, rather than something that applies to all American parents.

Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by noobermin on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:29AM (#20626010)
Along with the other replies, you're right. I will say though, when we're talking about car culture, white suburban middle class types are ones to mostly support it.