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Friday Video: Are We All Living in a ‘Carspiracy’?

How does "car-brain" shape the way we think about the world — even in relatively bike-friendly countries like the U.K.?

Pretty much all we talk about here at Streetsblog is how car culture shapes the way Americans live, move, and even think. The insidious forces of “moto-normativity,” though, reach pretty much every corner of the world — including the relatively bike-friendly UK.

Check out the latest video from the Global Cycling Network, which dove into the psychology behind “car brain” on both sides of the pond — with a lot of help from longtime friend of Streetsblog Dr. Ian Walker — and how our political and built environment choices reinforce that troubling windshield bias every day.

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