In this activity, you have considered the price of gas for cars. Certainly, the price of gas has risen throughout recent history. Has the importance of cars also risen recently? Have cars also become increasingly important in recent history? In this activity, you will interview an older American about the ways that they used cars when they were young.

You will also answer these questions yourself. When you have completed this work, compare the answers. Determine whether cars are more important today than they were $50$ years ago. Answer the questions below.

Your Answers:

List five places you typically drive to$.$

$$ List five places you typically walk to$.$

$$ How would life be different if there were no cars.

Answers of a grandparent or older adult:

List five places you typically drove to when you were a child.

$$ List five places you typically walked to when you were a child.

$$ How would your childhood have been different if there were no cars?