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That's great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.
You can't take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.
If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It's more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I'm a night owl.
Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn't care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren't exactly some great solution here.
Droll? You're saying New York City, one of the cultural capitals of the world, is droll?
Most people aren't going spelunking every day. They go to work. They go to the grocery. They go out to eat. They go out for drinks. You shouldn't need a car for that. You definitely shouldn't drink and drive.
No one is seriously arguing for getting rid of all cars for all people in all case. The focus is making them no longer the default. People who do need to drive for whatever reason will have a better time because there would be less traffic.
But really this conversation goes the same way it always does. People propose mass transit to solve the day to day for most people most of the time, and some people say it won't work because of corner cases and "I don't want to change anything".
Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home...that's droll.
That's not what corner case means.
And that's not what city life is. There's music, food, art, museums, cinema, theater, street fairs, cultural events. All of that fits in a city, in a few square miles, because cities are dense.
Why do you think city life is just work and home?