Read my post again--as I replied to someone about horses, you are not free from accident by any means of transport--even your own two feet (which, by the way, are the ideal way to get about).
Being a ludite in Texas would mean that cities like Houston and the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex wouldn't even exist. Things are far to spread out to be accessible by such means of travel.
One must wonder why the place in which we live is so lacking, that we must need to travel far to obtain things we lack at home.
But no matter--I am not a luddite if being one means being against machines no matter what.
I recognize that thanks to overpopulation, we must rely on machines.
But I am against loving those machines.
And the more one can do without them, the better.
(I once used an electric drill for all holes, dragging many yards of extension cord with me outside to my boat merely to drill one hole.
Then I discovered the virtues of a hand drill, and I realized that especially for making only a few holes in soft material like wood or fiberglass, a hand drill is superior to an electric drill, even faster when one considers finding an unused, working plug and handling 50ft of extension cord.)
There is definitely a car culture in America (cruising, roadtrips, etc.). We are a nation of open lands and freedom of travel.