Car Harms Monday: ‘Car Brain’ is the Demon Spawn of Car Dependency
Our policies, our budgets and our cultural narratives assume everyone can and does drive. That's car brain.
By
Anna Zivarts
12:03 AM EDT on May 12, 2025
Our policies, our budgets and our cultural narratives assume everyone can and does drive. That’s car brain.
Anna Zivarts is a visually impaired/low vision parent and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Zivarts launched the Week Without Driving to bring attention to the needs of nondrivers and is launching the Nondriver Alliance to build transit-rider power across Washington State.
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