Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

Feds Propose ‘Automatic Braking’ Rule — But It’s Not Strong Enough, Advocates Warn

By Kea Wilson | May 31, 2023 | No Comments

An aggressive new federal safety rule would eventually require automakers to install on new cars technology that can detect pedestrians and stop crashes before they happen — but there remain several key flaws in the proposal, advocates and experts said.

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Opinion: Could You Go a Week Without Driving? (Yes — And Here’s Why You Should)

By Anna Zivarts | May 25, 2023 | No Comments

If you can drive and can afford a car, you probably don’t understand what it’s like to rely, day in and out, on walking, rolling, transit, or asking or paying for rides. But this is every day for non-drivers.

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Opinion: What Two Massacres in Texas — One With a Car, One With a Gun — Reveal About America’s Culture of Violence

By Kea Wilson | May 10, 2023 | No Comments

American news outlets exploded with headlines about two eerily similar mass killings in Texas over the weekend. Both assailants killed eight people each. Both used weapons that advocates have fought for years to regulate because they are uniquely capable of killing large numbers of people in moments: the AR-15 rifle and the SUV.

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How Does Toxic Masculinity Play Out On Our Roads

By Kea Wilson | Apr 11, 2023 | No Comments

On this episode of the Brake, host Kea Wilson sits down with researcher and urban planning professor Tara Goddard to talk about how toxic masculinity plays out on our roads and what can we be done to stop it. Listen in.

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Traffic Studies Are Junk ‘Science’

By Kea Wilson | Apr 4, 2023 | No Comments

Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could all change.

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How to Reframe the Narrative About Car Dependency

By Streetsblog | Mar 29, 2023 | No Comments

On today's episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson brings you an extended interview with Grant Ennis, author of Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment. Listen now.

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