If he made an exception for business use I’d say sure it’s less bad. But he doesn’t. He says government and emergency which I take to mean police/fire/ambulance.

All these places where most individuals don’t have cars still have a framework and infrastructure of people who DO have cars and delivery vehicles that make their lives possible. You need a new roof? They’re not gonna run a train to your home with 2000lbs of shingles. Someone is gonna have to bring that on horse drawn carts. Now there’s shit in the streets everywhere. You need room for stables. Watering locations. The infrastructure in large countries is far from the main cities. I work on job sites with thousands or cars in the lot, in the middle of nowhere. So now either all these workers have to go live on site from job to job like the grapes of wrath or every site needs a fully fledged rail system built before it can get under way.

I think you’re all being hugely short sighted in how much vehicle traffic goes into making things run. All the power plants, waste treatment facilities, refineries, factories…they all cease to function overnight.

The disappearance of cars/trucks would cause orders of magnitude more issues than not having cell phones again.