> America got to be car-centric not because of nefarious car companies or other special interests, it got to be car-centric because cars work very well for our use case

Orr it could actually be that they paid for advertisements and politicians just to do that. If you don't want to read about it, here's a video that explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo