Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings

And off you went on a hair-raising road test with someone who could barely see past the hood. They straddled lanes, ignored stop signs, braked abruptly (without cause), accelerated suddenly (also without cause), pressed simultaneously on the brake and gas pedals, drove over curbs, nearly drove over people. All of them—every single one—remarked with

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If cars had personalities...

Watching cars on the road seems to be a commentary on the way we think and act anonymously...

Some observations are,

• follow the car in front very closely (less than human reaction time), and if that car moves into another lane, move up to maintain the minimum distance to the new vehicle. They’re just in the way.

• if there i

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It would be a massive cultural and behavioural shift to radically recast the automobile as a symbol not of freedom, but of restriction.