How did we get here?

Detroit, once the mighty engine of american industry, is now a rusted out heap of ruin. The lesson to learn is that we need to rebuild if we are gonna recover. Future transportation is likely to be quite different than now. Perhaps along the lines of teleporters.

How we got here is by ignoring problems. True Detroit did not fall in a day. GM was sick long ago. The cars it made were always breaking down. People got tired of junk.