All children must learn to code

Traditional imperative programming has been there since almost 50 years and it will be there in 50 years. Programming languages come and go, but the general spirit is the same since the early days of computing. I like your car example: One day or another, you need to refill gas or the oil, change your tires, fill up the windscreen cleaning liquid, or understand that your V-belt broke. You can pass all this on a very surface level, just as a driver. But you will be much more confident when you learned that your car has a motor and gears and all that. That's the very reason we learn math today despite we have calculators since decades.