Cars
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Talking Headways Podcast: Carspreading
Decisions about our public space are not being made at City Hall, but in car showrooms around the world.
September 10, 2026
Driverless Cars Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives. But We Must Treat Them Like Aviation — Not Like Cars
Commercial passenger aviation has nearly zero passenger deaths per year compared to about 40,000 roadway deaths. That's not a function of driving being inherently riskier — it is a function of what our leaders decide is "safe enough."
June 17, 2026
The Real Reason America Can’t Have The Tiny Japanese-Style Cars Trump Says He Wants
Trump is right that kei cars are super-kawaii — but he's wrong that clearing the regulatory decks is enough to bring them to U.S. shores.
December 15, 2025
Opinion: One Less Lane Ought To Fix It
Federal inaction means states must lead on reducing emissions — but their reluctance to reallocate road space for cars may doom climate goals.
Alex Burns
December 1, 2025
Friday Video: The Horrors of the Modern High-Tech Car
As more technology wheedles its way into our cars, they get scarier and scarier.
Dana Coffield
October 30, 2025
‘Rage Against the Machine’: The Daily Toll of Cars in 18 Images
In this excerpt from "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy," author Vishaan Chakrabarti gives a powerful visual breakdown of how car dependency impacts our places.
October 22, 2024
The Challenge: A Week Without Driving
Streetsblog boardmember Abby Arnold pledges to go without driving for a week, and to tell Streetsblog readers all about it
September 24, 2024
Streetsblog Editor Reflects on the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11
Auto dependency carries severe and destructive consequences that go well beyond pollution and wrecks
September 12, 2024
Walk this Way: Feds Finally Want Car Safety Standards to Apply to People Outside the Vehicle
In the midst of a two-decade rise, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new rules to "reduce fatalities among pedestrians."
September 10, 2024
Opinion: Cars Have F@#%ed Up This Country So Bad
Fact: The car-centric age of development is one long mistake.
September 10, 2024
