"You always told me to stay off the freeway. You told me it was suicide."

- Trinity to Morpheus, The Matrix Reloaded

The machines are taking over our cities. And the byproducts of our auto-dominate society threaten quality of life in ways we never imagined. Consider:

> Smog, sprawl, gridlock, and road rage.
> Ugly, dirty, dangerous cities built for cars instead of people.
> A recent Emory University study drawing a clear link between health epidemics like obesity and asthma and Atlanta's sprawling car culture.
> The human toll. At over 43,000 US traffic fatalities per year, the human carnage is equivalent to a 9/11 every month.

And yet we seem to be blissfully unaware, cocooned in our SUVs...

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