The $25k car is going extinct?

The car-dependent culture create a problem that you can't even go to work if you cannot afford a car.

And this chicken-and-egg problem is also with public transit:

- to have people use public transit, it has to provide enough routes and drive often enough to be at least remotely comparable to driving yourself

- to do that, a lot of funding is required

- to get that funding, people have to use and pay for the transit (fares)

You can get some of that in with taxes, like many places already do, but there's only so much you can afford on taxes alone.