I'm not sure what part of my message lead you to believe I didn't think people enjoyed cars? The problem is that it wasn't enough for cars to be a useful tool

I'm not sure what part of my message lead you to believe I didn't think people enjoyed cars? The problem is that it wasn't enough for cars to be a useful tool for those that needed it, but that they needed to be a source of endless growth, and marketing played a crucial role in that. There's no need for mustache twirling here. Car companies rationally maximized their profit by selling to everyone they could, rationally removed barriers to car adoption by removing everyone else from the road and rationally created new markets for their product by encouraging sprawling cities and enormous highways, which also acted as a competitive moat. They then disregarded the consequences, not because they were evil, but because their job was to maximize car sales, not the car's benefit to humanity. All of this is just things working as intended.