I think you have to be outside of the car to understand this if you are walking on a sidewalk and you see cars the first thing you notice is not the people in them but the car itself which is dehumanizing this is even worse if it is night time you won’t even see a person at all in the car you’ll just see the car appear to be moving all by itself going in some aimless direction.
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How is merely seeing a car “dehumanizing”?
Is your standard of what is “humanizing” that you never see anything other than a human? Or you never see anything that humans have built or used for which the human cause or operator is not also immediately present to view?
Logically the fact you cite “people still use cars” is evidence at least initially that unlike you they do not think they dehumanize humanity. You are putting your conclusion in your premise.
I appreciate your thoughtful reply and you are correct most people who use cars do not have the same belief that I do about them being dehumanizing the reason I have that belief is because I do not own a car so I see it from the perspective of someone outside of the car and when I see a car I don’t see a person I see a car a machine with a person in it now obviously if you are inside the car you see it differently and you don’t feel that perhaps it’s dehumanizing because you feel differently right if you’re in a car probably feels fun because you’re driving a machine but if you’re outside of the car as I am I don’t see it or feel it that way I feel threatened by these machines that go by me that are able to kill me very easily.
As I said before I find it dehumanizing because I see the car before I see the person in the car in fact most of the time I don’t even see the person in the car I just see the car going by that’s what makes it dehumanizing it would be the same thing if someone was wearing armor obviously there’s a person underneath the armor but you don’t see the person you just see the armor if the armor is covering everything like medieval armor.
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Interesting…you might get a different view from Merleau-Ponty
In his seminal work, Phenomenology of Perception, French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argues that tools act as dynamic extensions of our bodies. Rather than viewing tools as separate objects we mentally calculate how to use, we perceptually incorporate them into our "body schema
This is me : Like a guitar in the hands of a master guitarist. He is not playing the guitar, he feels it and it is part of him and it is a channel. But I might be getting too poetic 
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