Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Question, why is "traffic" of an electric car carrying 4 people bad?

In a city the whole lot grinds to a halt if more than a tiny tiny percentage of people decide to travel by car. And that's with absolutely heroic efforts to keep traffic moving - dedicating basically all of our prime outdoor space to moving or parking cars, making pedestrians wait forever at crossings, accepting X pedestrians/cyclists will be maimed or killed each day, etc.

So car use in a city is an incredibly finite resource and using it when you could easily use something else is kinda selfish.

(admittedly the real problem isn't one off journeys but people making journeys like yours all day and every day and then whinging constantly about traffic and bike lanes and parking)