I could mostly do without a car locally. I could walk to the grocery store and so forth. What I can't do is visit anybody outside my neighborhood. My daughter lives about three hours away; I want to be able to visit her. I have friends who live in the town about a half-hour drive away -- there's no safe way to ride a bike on any route between here and there. Plus, at least half the year, the weather would turn it into a near-impossibility. How do you visit people who don't live nearby without a car?