It's just ironic that for cars to be so ubiquitous, they required large central governments to incentivize people to drive by paving over much of the land and disproportionately funding Interstates over mass transit.
Now, the most common argument in favour of car-centric design is that cars provide freedom to their users.
This is very similar to, but definitely more subtle than preventing people from entering stores and restaurants, but then granting access to those wearing masks, and then saying that masks provide freedom to their users.
