Obviously you/we don't represent the majority. GP is a valid point, in that without polling the people who are choosing to drive [0], we don't know their actual motivation.
Correlation is not causation. For example (as was said), an alternative mechanism is that someone actually believes the scaremongering narrative broadcast on TV, and is choosing driving to avoid the bogeyman^Wterrorists.
[0] Don't give the thugs any ideas