You can find the writer's true feelings in a line that he used describing the 1909 T ...

conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots.
It's simple, he (or she) hates cars in general and looks at all cars as a blight upon humanity.