Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

No, I brought up other recent game changing inventions since you are trying to make some sort of wacky point about the short history of automobiles and that previously humans got along quite well without them:

"and keep in mind that the automobile has only been a part of the world for the last 100 years or so... prior to that, walking was used quite a bit more frequently for human transportation needs as were trolleys, carts and other forms of more public transit. The bicycle too has a longer history than the automobile."

Your cliched good old days song sounds a bit tinny to my ear.