Automobiles have followed the same arc as the cell phone followed in our generation: from intrusion and annoyance...

Automobiles have followed the same arc as the cell phone followed in our generation: from intrusion and annoyance owned and operated by the rich, to middle-class necessity, to sometime nuisance/sometime necessity over which we disagree on the rules governing when and where and under what circumstances they should be used.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/27/debunking-the-myth-of-the-american-love-affair-with-cars/