The car industry is one of the most parasitical, we pay the costs – direct and indirect – they simply take the money. Society has been tailored to simply hand them the money. Ironically, there's little national loyalty, once governments stop ponying up taxpayer cash, they go somewhere else. Plus more and more car sales are simply financial instruments, that debt gets derivatized, securitized and sold on in the usual ways.
I'm really not clear on the benefits – if there's any benefit – of widespread car reliance.