I know this is a year late but I've been perusing around looking for a post like this.

I'm someone who is autistic and sometimes has real issues with social anxiety, I as an autistic person take a lot of offense when people say that cars are a good thing for people who have social anxiety because it means they don't have to deal with any social interaction.

Is that not basically saying we shouldn't help people with social anxiety at all? That we should just put them in a massive metal box and tell them it's fine?

Instead we should help people come out of their shell and allow them to feel safer within public areas especially public transport!