I think it's just brainworms from that message being hammered in to people since the day they were born. By any objective measure, the whole thing of owning and driving a car and transportation is encridibly fickle. Remember when the UK had a sort of petrol crisis? It wasn't even that there wasn't petrol, they just lacked the people to ferry it to where it's needed. That's all it takes for the whole thing to come crashing down. Or maybe whatever energy you use to propel the thing becomes too sparse to comfortably support everyone and their grandma using half an appartment to get places. Or maybe there's just nobody or not enough people with the needed technical equipment around to fix it for you. Or maybe the roads just sort of wash out and everything that's not an actual off road car is now pretty much stuck because they're designed for roads. LIke even if everybody takes the hypothetical alternative dirt road, that's gonna become unuseable within 2 weeks because it's not meant to take that abuse.
I think it's just brainworms from that message being hammered in to people since the day they were born. By any objective measure, the whole thing of owning and driving a car and transportation is encridibly fickle. Remember when the UK had a sort of petrol crisis? It wasn't even that there wasn't petrol, they just lacked the people to ferry it to where it's needed. That's all it takes for the whole thing to come crashing down. Or maybe whatever energy you use to propel the thing becomes too sparse to comfortably support everyone and their grandma using half an appartment to get places. Or maybe there's just nobody or not enough people with the needed technical equipment around to fix it for you. Or maybe the roads just sort of wash out and everything that's not an actual off road car is now pretty much stuck because they're designed for roads. LIke even if everybody takes the hypothetical alternative dirt road, that's gonna become unuseable within 2 weeks because it's not meant to take that abuse.