Sometimes articles like these are an attempt to push an agenda, regardless of whether this is good or bad (reason: good; sophistry: bad). Something is problemat

Sometimes articles like these are an attempt to push an agenda, regardless of whether this is good or bad (reason: good; sophistry: bad). Something is problematized (whether this is justified on independent grounds or not is not the point) and once it is problematized and people accept it as a problem, you have gained the assent of the public. Solutions are proposed and propagated by those with the power to broadcast their opinions. This can be the same group that problematized the issue in the first place. In order to propose a solution (which is to say, to propose a change), they must first have problematized the issue to make the public receptive. Given background knowledge, it is possible that this sort of article is a way of getting the ball rolling with respect to the reduction of cars or the promotion of self-driving cars or whatever. The chip shortage and general disruption of supply chains and the effect on the prices of cars is opportune.