Your point brings up something I’m starting to believe:

The suburban automobile-focused infrastructure that makes up most of this country is terrible for healthy social and political interaction.

It’s almost like it was designed to isolate.

There are no people on the sidewalks to see, it’s just people in cars getting road rage over traffic.

The few places in America that are walkable are very expensive to live in, even after accepting the idea of smaller living quarters. It’s like the wealthiest know that living in your car sucks. The demand for dynamic, walkable neighborhoods is greater than its supply, especially since nearly no new construction is walkable.