car culture

How does everyday language hide the real impact of building a world that functionally requires everyone to drive?

One in 32 people around the world die from car crashes, car-related air pollution, and car-related lead exposure every year. But even that astonishing number doesn't tell the whole story.

A new study seeks to quantify everything car culture costs us. Yet there are still more ways that auto-centrism hurts us all.

A horrific car crash that killed nine has federal safety officials calling for systematic responses to traffic violence — including the aggressive car ads that may inspire motorists to hit the gas.

A Democratic governor's controversial decision to pick up a road-widening effort where his Republican predecessor left off is sparking a conversation about why U.S. leaders across party lines keep pushing for the same old harmful highway projects.

What can cities do to stem the megacar crisis while the feds drag their feet?

"SUVs, pick-up trucks, and passenger cars should not be the benchmark by which we judge the size of other forms of transit, and the term ‘micromobility’ encourages us to believe that they are."

Instead of endless promises to fix America's "crumbling roads and bridges," filmmaker Andy Boenau argues we need to talk about our crumbling minds and bodies — and how our autocentric infrastructure approach contributes to them.