To most Americans, practical use of bicycling, walking and mass transit are foreign concepts. What? Why should I exert myself that way? That is idiotic! I'll get sweaty. My hair will get messed up. I'll LOOK like I bicycled or walked from somewhere! And, mass transit ... uh, uh. I want my privacy.

Shoehorning Americans out of the motor vehicles for ANY reason is a tough sell, eh?