 The Inland Empire of Southern California – an enormous area of land on the southeast fringe of Los Angeles County stretching as far as the eye can see eastward – has quite a car heritage.
It maintains a historical need for automobiles. It’s a huge geographical expanse anchored by few cities of large populations, such as Ontario, San Bernardino and Riverside. Everyone else is very, very spread out.
That means the Inland Empire is a densely populated area served hardly by transportation other than the automobile. So a great majority of people must totally depend on their cars.