CNN Money: Alert readers of the New York Times discovered this week that licensed drivers and car owners are in danger of becoming an endangered species. An essay by a Times environment and health reporter for the Sunday Review carried the headline "The End of Car Culture" and posed this question: "Has America passed peak driving?" After acknowledging the role of automobiles in the rise of the suburbs, the centrality of Detroit in the global auto industry, and the popularity of car songs like "Mustang Sally"...