I dunno, rolling past the lines of traffic on Saturday I didn't see any happy faces, mostly the spanning the gamut of bored to angry, people caught lining up to buy stuff they don't need with money they probably don't have, and paying for the doubtful privilege. All the very middle-class people I know are always complaining about driving, the parking, that they're forever having to drive their kids to the endless activities that middle-class children are obligated to do (trust me, growing up poor in the 80s was a lot easier, you'd just get turfed out of the house), etc. etc. It was much the same in the US where they've mostly removed the option (if it ever existed) to do anything but drive to places.
Yet we continue to build the kind of society that means we have to drive everywhere, when it wouldn't it preferable if we could walk somewhere, for a drink, for a meal to pick up some supplies, to be able to walk to a local activity. Not have to worry about parking when you get there, the journey, whether someone will scratch your precious, whether you'll be judged by your peers by the model of your car, the endless expense. The need for every adult member of the house to have at least one car.
Outside the bounds of smug-middle-classness, go wander through a less affluent part of any town, cars everywhere, covering every garden, every piece of grass, pavement, basically tesselated parking; driving is also a tax on the poor, excluding those who can't afford it, and penalizing those who just about can.
