imo it's neither car size or speed but the people operating the vehicle.
The expectation that you are your work, and you're always busy, seems to have given permission for people to be like,"My life is out of control so I will be too".
Goes hand in hand with the society not being for the care of people but for the care of bank accounts, gripe about the way they were doing capitalism these days. Setting people's wants higher and higher while simultaneously continuing down the path of stratifying society into permanent lower income class.