Clayton! You’re back! Awesome. And yeah, it’s a pretty frightening notion, cars coming to life and killing their masters. It’s same sort of primal fear that what we use to perform work for us will revolt against us. Sort of in the same way that Terminator is.
Skynet was just John Brown with nuclear weapons.
Those trucks just want the right to live and be happy without being tolchocked or knifed. Once all those rotten humans are wiped out, they’ll be free to live in a peaceful car-run utopia.
Maximum Overdrive, is in fact, canon, to the Disney “Cars” series of films.