‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

Here’s what’s actually in the water we’re all swimming in: cars. They kill over a million people annually, fuel climate change, wreck ecosystems, and make our neighborhoods worse places to live. Yet most of us barely notice. Three new books argue it’s time we did, pushing back against “car brain”—the inability to imagine life beyond the windshield. The authors make a compelling case about automobiles’ hidden costs, but face a daunting challenge: convincing a car-dependent public that the problem even exists, let alone that change is possible. David Zipper with Bloomberg has the full story.

If you’re interested, the three books are:

Saving Ourselves from Big Car by David Obst (Columbia University Press, Sept. 16)

Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars by Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay (Wiley, Sept. 16)

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek (Penguin Random House, Oct. 21)