Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings
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Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings
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For decades, the automobile provided a pathway to economic opportunity and upward mobility. But now the negative consequences — including a reliance on fossil fuels and increased emissions of greenhouse gases; a dramatic increase in the rate of deaths caused by cars[x]; the disconnection of local community and weakening of local economies; the rise... See more
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
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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.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
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Simply to suggest so many nondrivers exist forces a conversation about how our mobility needs are discounted as unimportant, secondary to the “real” people who can drive where they need to go. It’s the conversation we need to be having, but it is a challenging conversation for everyone who is benefiting from the status quo.
Anna Zivarts • Op-Ed: Recognizing Nondrivers Can Spur a Revolution in Transportation and Housing - The Urbanist
Before other auto promoters, Charles Hayes saw that industry leaders had to reshape the traffic safety debate. As president of the Chicago Motor Club, Hayes warned his friends that bad publicity over traffic casualties could soon lead to “legislation that will hedge the operation of automobiles with almost unbearable restrictions.” The solution was... See more
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
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these visions deliberately exclude anything that might be perceived as an obstacle or that seem outside a very narrow norm, from regulatory impediments to the inconvenience of other people. This characterizes the worldview of those who can only see a future that continues to be designed for the car.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
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compensated for the perceived increase in safety by taking more risks.14 This “Peltzman effect”
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
With government backing, behavior had shifted entirely by 1930, and the default was that streets were for cars, and pedestrians should limit themselves to crosswalks. The industry had successfully changed attitudes from always blaming the driver to assuming any collision was an unavoidable accident and probably the fault of a reckless pedestrian—an
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