[karmanyaahm]

Yes. Additionally, this is a commonly cited win of cars in cars v. public transport. You can take your car anywhere in the zombie apocalypse*, whereas any system that requires central planning (trains) are more likely to break.

Making cars (human or machine driven) depend on a centralized service basically takes away that advantage.

* assuming you have enough fuel/battery

[mr_toad]

Typically in apocalyptic settings the roads are quickly clogged with abandoned vehicles.