The benefits are tremendous and not even close:
- Faster for most of America, unless you're in places such as Manhattan.
- Can use normal clothes, no need to specially dress up for it
- Can enjoy beverages, music and audiobooks, you can do that on a bicycle but not as safe
- Better quality of air to breathe
- Not going to get stolen
- Not going to get robbed
- Much much safer, modern automobiles are riduculously safe
- Better for the knees
- No need to worry about weather. Flip of a switch and it is awesome, instant heat or cold
- Luxury vehicles are incredibly comfortable
- Cost of cars + insurance + fuel is not a problem for me
- I really don't care about energy consumption, I am not going to give up modern QoL for some ostensible collectivist goal like cycling or eating bugs. We have unlimited source of energy (Sun), we're going to be fine in the future
- Much more fun (subjective). I love driving, especially manual transmision cars and performance cars with great suspension