In another New York Times article, Elisabeth Rosenthal states, "70 percent of Vaubanas families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." The remaining thirty percent of people hardly use their own cars for anything more than distant traveling, as most of Vaubanas streets are "carfree." This can show that a population of people, in this case over 5,000 of them can survive without constantly being behind a wheel.