The road is no different than anywhere else. Can you imagine in a restaurant setting, if the doors and windows were barred, and the patrons forced to stay against their will, until the people who barred the doors and windows deigned to let them go? Everyone in the restaurant would be considered hostages at best, and kidnapping victims at worst. There is no moral obligation to succumb to kidnappers and hostage-takers.
The road is no different than anywhere else. Can you imagine in a restaurant setting, if the doors and windows were barred, and the patrons forced to stay against their will, until the people who barred the doors and windows deigned to let them go? Everyone in the restaurant would be considered hostages at best, and kidnapping victims at worst. There is no moral obligation to succumb to kidnappers and hostage-takers.
You are absolutely correct. This is a hostage in the freeway.