alt Hacker NewsYes because American public transit is so great and now you have to get up hours earlier and come home later - not great if you have kids or you actually want to spend time with your significant other.
Also what happens when that cheap old car doesn’t start in the morning when you need to get to work or pick your kids up from day care/school or need to be home when they get off the bus?
Where are you going to get the money to fix that old car?
You present some very daunting problems that the young and working class have to deal with (I know, I was both of those decades ago and struggled myself).
Credit to buy a new car though is still generally a bad solution. We should fix the other things you mentioned.
I would like to see laws allowing extreme low-cost vehicles (equivalent to golf carts, I guess) allowed on designated roads. A special inexpensive insurance proviso for them.
That you need something like $30K to buy a new car in the U.S. is insane.