Nate Silver, a baseball statistician who last year turned his number-crunching craft to political and social matters at the Web site FiveThirtyEight.com (it refers to the number of electors who choose the president of the United States), recently asked this question in a column for Esquire magazine: “Is America Still a Car Culture?”
The question was occasioned, Mr. Silver said, by data showing that Americans, who began driving less amid skyrocketing fuel prices last year, continued to curb their driving even as fuel prices plummeted.
He concluded that Americans tend to react slowly to changes in fuel prices, and while it was too soon to tell the extent to which individual consumers abandoned car culture for the communal exploit of mass transit, a rebound in driving was almost certain.
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