"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they have exhausted all other possibilities."

As an outsider and on a more serious note, there's just too much money in cars and car-centric infrastructure. The whole country would need to be rebuilt.

It can be done, they've rebuilt the country a few times, but again, as a outsider, it feels like hope has been dying out in the US. They're giving up because they've given up.

Autonomous cars will solve the problem much faster than redesigning roads or changing driving habits will.