Perhaps to defuse the denigrative aspect of the term we should think of it as analogous to the 'lizard brain' as not a disease but something of an interior module we all have within us - on a day to day basis most people can generally introspect on the contributions of the lizard brain to our thoughts and feelings[1] , why not should we similarly introspect on the car brain and think on a similarly higher order level?

[1] Tangential reading: 'Why Buddhism is True' by Robert Wight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Buddhism_Is_True

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/541610511