The car by far one of the main reasons was a plane was very practical because in most cases the average American would never dream of getting on or much less touch a plane and planes weren’t very safe and here’s more reasons for city life you had taxis for faster travel food trucks for fresher food streets were a lot more clean because of not a lot of horses for the horse poop and as for the country even tho roads weren’t very established there were more road then runways and made travel WAY WAY faster.