There is also the whole food desert problem too. When every service except gas is 30-60 min away... Sure, you can learn to live with that, weekly/monthly bulk runs, and people in AK and TX and other places have even longer drives to normal stuff. But shesh, its hard giving up 3 minutes in the car to a winco or other such "big city" benifits.
Driver of the first car was 100% asleep at the wheel.