I don't expect my urban hellhole nirvana to be implemented nationwide anytime soon, but I do see more and more encouraging signs that more people are getting that cars are not necessarily inevitable. A lot of what people don't like about dense development is actually the cars that ruin it, but they don't understand that because they can't imagine any kind of development without a bunch of cars to go with it.
Of course, even as we inch closer to my urban hellhole nirvana we will still have cars! They aren't going away. Hopefully more people will have more options, because all those cars take up too much damn space.