That reminds me of Cory Doctorow's theory on how geometry hates cars: https://thewaroncars.org/transcript-episode-79-the-end-of-ub...

>if you multiply, you know, all of the journeys by the space that the car occupies in the road by the amount of road that you need by the distance that that pushes people apart because you have to build more roads, you are in a red queen’s race that you cannot win.